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Moodymann

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. For fans of house, techno and in particular Detroit, Moodymann is a figure that mystifies and inspires, an artist…

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Hessle Audio

Founded in Leeds over 10 years ago now, Hessle Audio is a name that most fans of UK dance music, particularly bass, dubstep and grime, should be more than familiar with. Founded by 3 friends in university who began with their own radio show on…

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Move D

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. There are some DJs who seem ageless, who have been around forever and yet manage to put out music…

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Omar S

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. Raw, unfiltered, irreverent and absolutely unique, Omar S is one of the most enigmatic producers to come out of Detroit, and…

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Burial

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. He’s been called the ‘Banksy of future garage’, one of the creators of the post-dub sound, and ‘a chronicler…

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Robert Hood

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. He’s probably the guy that created minimal techno. He was a ‘Minister of Information’ at Underground Resistance, whatever that…

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Portishead

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. It seems slightly silly to include Portishead in a feature on dance music essentials. For one, it’s not dance music at…

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Luomo

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. Finland is probably not the first place you think of when you imagine deep, textured house music or sophisticated…

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Jeff Mills

Essential Focus is a new Wavlngth feature that helps you to discover singularly important, essential artists and labels across genres from throughout dance music history. For most people, the words Detroit and techno sound best together, and one of the key reasons for this is superstar…

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