One of our favorite labels made a mixtape for one of our favorite festivals, the upcoming Copenhagen Distortion Festival. It’s well nice.

This June, one of the world’s most exciting underground dance labels go on their first European tour. The marvelously eccentric 100% Silk imprint plan to film the whole thing with a view to creating a documentary that captures their performances and depicts their journey through the European cultural epicentres. What’s more, they need your help to do it.

The latest innovator to step up in !K7 Records’ legendary DJ Kicks series is none other than Photek, the guy who made drum and bass smart. Check out the interview after the jump.

Here’s a tight little mish mash of the latest and the greatest from Throne of Blood's James Friedman. If you’ve yet to get your weekend mojo on, this podcast will take you to the right side of Friday faster than you can say ‘James Friedman’s machine funk takes me higher’.

The last post of the year comes from our buddy, James Friedman, from the amazing Throne of Blood Records. James and the Throne of Blood crew compiled this list of dopeness from the past year just for you. Happy New Year, people!

What have we here? Tim Sweeney's best tracks from 2011 mixed skillfully together for your listening pleasure, that's what.

Our buds over at Sound of Copenhagen just uploaded a free track to their Soundcloud.

LA-based label, Not Not Fun, and its dance offshoot, 100 % Silk, were this year's most interesting newcomers.

Fabric's classy club night, 'The Nothing Special', gets its own label courtesy of the legendary club's discerning selector, Craig Richards.

Rump Recordings' finest promote their latest album, 'Limousine to the Guillotine', in an attention-grabbing way.

At Bleep.com’s takeover of the outstanding Boiler Room show, Rustie played an equally outstanding if not full-on momentous set. And the TMA-1 was all up in the Boiler Room!

I'd buy that for a dollar!

In which Tartelet throw a Xmas rave at Dunkel Bar in Copenhagen.

Storm, Copenhagen’s renowned fashion and lifestyle boutique, will be selling the Fool’s Gold edition TMA-1. Get yourself down to Store Regnegade 1 where you can touch, test and try on the limited edition headphones.

Lush new mix by Ghostly International's Moderna AKA Missy Livingston

Nicolas Jaar's new EP is the cat's pyjamas.

The Glaswegian beat corrupter's new album on Warp really is very good indeed.

Maybe it’s the untimely death of DJ Mehdi. It could also be the growing backlash on the hipster backlash. Whatever the case, our attention has suddenly been alerted to the fact that the latest Justice video ‘Audio, Video, Disco’ is pure French fire that puts the leather-clad Parisians back on the map. Yes, we're serious.

Very few contemporary dance music producers can claim that the output of Chicago-based label Trax hasn’t had some kind of effect on their sound.