En Masse announces the full line-up for its 2025 edition

DJ Python, Shackleton, Abdullah Miniawy and more are set to play the fifth edition of En Masse, which will take place from 9-12 October across multiple venues in Bristol.

WOS Festival announces full line-up for its 2025 edition

Taking place from 11-14 September in Spain’s Santiago de Compostela, KAVARI, Purelink, Niecy Blues, and more join the line-up for WOS Festival.

What’s happening at We Out Here Festival this weekend

We Out Here returns to Wimborne St Giles in Dorset from 14-17 August, with Nala Sinephro, Batu, Kokoroko, and Loyle Carner on the bill.

Polifonic announces full line-up for its 2025 programme

The seventh edition of Polifonic Puglia returns from 23-27 July in Valle D’Itria with Batu, CCL and more on the line-up.

Maho Rasop finalises electronic programme for 2024

Batu, Cashu and more will play the Bangkok festival next month.

Batu’s En Masse returns to Bristol this September

The multi-venue music and arts festival will hold its second edition across the city from 20-24 September

Batu returns to Timedance with I Own Your Energy EP

Listen to EP track ‘Inner Space’ now

Batu announces first line-up for new Bristol festival En Masse

Chris Farrell, Birthmark, EP/64, Ossia and Copper Sounds will play at Bristol arts and music venue Strange Brew in September

Batu to launch En Masse Festival in Bristol this year

The three-day multi-venue event will take place from 16-18 September 2021

Batu

Batu is teaming up with Dr. Martens to launch a community-first music studio

First Light Studio will be free for artists to use

Batu Butt Studio Void Dez

Batu and Butt Studio present their audiovisual collaboration Void Dez

Featuring a new track made exclusively for the video by the Timedance label head

Batu announces Timedance compilation, shares new track SYX

Sharpen, Moving features tracks by Ploy, Bruce, Akiko Haruna, Peter Van Hoesen and more

Batu: The pathfinder

The Bristol producer’s mantra is simple: assume your audience is ready for anything and they will be

Tommy Cash

Red Axes, Tommy Cash, Waxahatchee and more set for Elsewhere shows this spring

The full programme of events for the upcoming season at Elsewhere, New York has been announced

Metrist

Metrist walks the thin line where body music and experimentalism meet: slippery beat-structures, drum ‘n’ bass heft and HD sound-design intwined for a challenging but inherently funky whole.

Lena Willikens © Mike Chalmers

Lena Willikens, Giant Swan and Floating Points to play MIRA Festival 2019

The Spanish event returns to various venues in Barcelona on 5-9 November

Mix roundup, June

10 mixes you need to hear this month

Shyboi, Batu, Beautiful Swimmers, Rosehips and more feature on our roundup of mixes from May

Lena Willikens & Batu

“It’s like this never-ending mystery”: Lena Willikens and Batu unravel the artistry of DJing

The two selectors meet in an east London bar to talk methods and processes

Kahn, Batu, Pinch and more confirmed for Machina Bristronica 2019

The festival’s inaugural edition takes place at Motion, Bristol, on 30 March

Objekt © Kasia Zacharko

Objekt, Ricardo Villalobos, Volvox and more announced for Junction 2

The London festival will take place from 7-8 June in Boston Manor Park

Fatima, Dimensions 2018 © Dan Medhurst

We asked DJs at Dimensions to talk about the one track they’ve played all summer

Gunseli Yalcinkaya caught up with Helena Hauff, Batu, Amp Fiddler and more at the Croatian festival

Selections: Batu

“Music I enjoy listening to at home at the moment”

Lena Willikens

Lena Willikens, Batu and Object Blue to play Berlin Atonal 2018

The four-day event will take place at Kraftwerk on 22-26 August

World Cup Fever

5 Artists on Their Most Memorable World Cup Moments

From Lampard’s disallowed kick to a last-minute Beckham goal, we caught up with Batu, Chelcee Grimes, Big Zuu and more to talk the goals they’ll never forget

Timedance review

Various Artists – Patina Echoes

The Bristol label’s classy execution holds strong across these 11 tracks, delighting the mind and forging ahead into new territory

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills, Batu and Powder announced for Terraforma 2018

The Italian festival returns to Milan’s Villa Arconati in June

© Jackson Bowley

IAMDDB, Objekt and Batu added to Field Day’s 2018 line-up

They join the previously announced Erykah Badu, Fever Ray and Helena Hauff

Timedance’s hot streak continues with Lena Willikens

Yewande Adeniran reports back from one of Bristol’s most cherished parties as they welcome Düsseldorf’s Lena Willikens to the city

© Vitali Gelwich

Pan Daijing and Batu to feature on T. S. Eliot-inspired compilation, In Death’s Dream Kingdom

Houndstooth will release the experimental compilation on 26 January

Mixes of the Year 2017

From Björk to Sir Spyro – here’s 20 mixes from the last 12 months deserving of your attention