The Opener: gum.mp3’s club heaters build on the history of Black electronic music

The Opener: gum.mp3’s club heaters build on the history of Black electronic music

The Baltimore-based producer and DJ’s freewheeling releases draw on garage, house, techno, and more. gum.mp3.   all photos via the artist. The Opener is The FADER’s short-form profile series of casual conversations with exciting new artists. gum.mp3 makes lush electronic music with rhythms drawing from house and garage music, but there’s a surprising depth of…

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A guide to Rochelle Jordan’s best songs

A guide to Rochelle Jordan’s best songs

The FADER’s newest cover star’s career has been a slow burn filled with bops. Photography by Coughs Rochelle Jordan has been lighting up dance floors and aux cords for over a decade. The British-Jamaican alt-R&B diva and house chanteuse has long been a cult favorite and a steady collaborator of dance music heavyweights like KAYTRANADA….

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AlphaTheta and Serato built SLAB for DJs

AlphaTheta and Serato built SLAB for DJs

Giving DJs the ability to start producing. TRAKGIRL   TRAKGIRL has been making beats on hardware since before most of the producers she’d eventually work with knew what a DAW was. Her credits read like a cheat sheet for contemporary rap — JID, Metro Boomin, Jhené Aiko, Vic Mensa — and her work on God…

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