The story behind Spotify is set to be explored in a new streaming series.
Announced yesterday (11th), an untitled project focusing on Swedish Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, will be forthcoming on Netflix. Directed by Yellow Bird UK, the script will be based on the book Spotify Untold by authors and reporters Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud.
A Mary J. Blige documentary is being produced by Amazon Studios. It is due for release this Friday 6th December.
A documentary about the legendary R&B singer, songwriter, and actress, will be executive produced by Blige and Sean Combs, AKA rapper Diddy, and will follow the artist as she gears up to perform her 1994 album 'My Life' on a 25th anniversary tour.
A new documentary traces the history of Detroit techno.
Directed by London-based filmmaker Jenn Nkiru, and produced by Frieze and Italian fashion house Gucci, the twenty-minute Black to Techno covers the legendary rise of the genre in the Michigan city.
A new documentary exploring rave and acid’s impact on ‘80s Britain is coming to BBC Four next Friday, August 2nd.
Everybody in The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 is from Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller, and features rare and unseen archive materials, while uprooting “popular notions of rave and acid house, situating them at the very centre of the seismic social changes reshaping 1980s Britain.”
A Wu-Tang Clan documentary series has been nominated for an Emmy.
The Sacha Jenkins-directed Showtime doc series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men is in the running for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program. It will compete against the likes of Hulu's Fyre Fraud for the award. Watch the trailer for series below.
The legendary hip-hop group performed at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Laurent Garnier has created a kickstarter for a new documentary on techno culture, "Laurent Garnier: Off The Record".
Featuring interviews with Carl Cox, Derrick May and Jeff Mills, the documentary aims to "tell the story of the last great musical revolution of the 20th century through the eyes of one of its pioneers."
The kickstarter has been set up in order to allow fans to be part of the creative process. Pledges for the project range from £1 to £500 and each donation comes with a different package.
The latest edition of our Stories From The City series is now available to watch. This edition sees DJ Mag — in partnership with Boiler Room X Ballantine's — travel to Madrid to meet the characters at the heart of the city's Perreo scene.
The third edition in our ‘Stories From The City’ series — following Moscow and Kraków — features insight from local DJs, promoters and industry insiders such as Ms Nina and Bea Pelea, as well as DJ and promotion collective Chica Gang — curators of the Madrid party 'CHICA'.
Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music make their Kraków debut later this month.
The showcase event, which takes place in the Polish city on 25th April, features Kraków's own Olivia and Private Press (Newborn Jr) alongside experimental bass producer Martyn, techno duo Fjaak and Sweden's SHXCXCHCXSH. The show will be broadcast by Boiler Room and syndicated to DJ Mag's Facebook page.
An extremely rare synth dating back to the '70s is set to be the subject of a new documentary.
The Resynator has apparently been sitting in a dusty attic for the last 30 years, but a new documentary will bring attention back to the machine, its legacy and the work of its creator, Don Tavel. It's been in the attic of Don's wife since his passing in a car crash in 1988, 10 weeks after his daughter Alison was born. Alison recovered the machine and took it to Los Angeles to work on restoring it alongside the man that originally engineered it with Don in the '70s.
Over £120,000 ($164,000)has been raised for Maryann Rolle, a worker at Fyre Festival who was forced to use £38,000 ($50,000) of her own life savings to pay staff members after the disastrous event.
