On 1st May 1994, protestors gathered in London to rally against the Criminal Justice Bill, which targeted events categorised by 'repetitive beats” – rave music

30 years later, Harold Heath looks back on reactions to this act, and its lingering impact

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DJ Mag Harold Heath Good film about it all out doing festivals at the moment... docnrollfestival.com/films/free-par…

Thirty years to the day... ✊🙂🔊

slamraman Very kind, thank you, glad you enjoyed it🙂

It’s thirty years since the Tories bought in the Criminal Justice Bill. This month’s DJ Mag includes a feature from me on its impact and legacy✊🏻🎧🙂

Convert all private schools into nightclubs

All DJs to wear a mask except those who currently do

Add lessons in brit funk, lovers rock & UKG to the national curriculum

Nightclub life ban if you film someone dancing for laughs

Bring back calipo shots, fruit polos & white doves

In 1994, protestors gathered in London to rally against the Criminal Justice Bill, which targeted events categorised by 'repetitive beats” – rave music. This month, Harold Heath and others reflect on reactions to this act at the time, and its lingering effects to this day

🌹Psychedelic sonics🌹

Indira Paganotto is DJ Mag’s May 2024 cover star

On stands, or available by subscription, now: dj-m.ag/3o2M2PE

For this year’s Brighton Music Conference I've assembled a panel of outstanding neurodivergent DJs to discuss the links between between neurodivergence and DJing. It's going to be brilliant 🙂✊❤️ #BMC2024

Issue 5 has landed and it’s packed full of great music, brilliant stories, quality journalism, cracking photos and beautiful design (of course) 😉

Shipping now: discopogo.ochre.store

The growing awareness around the prevalence of neurodivergence within electronic music has led many to wonder if they might be neurodivergent too

Here, following up his 2022 exploration of the topic, AuDHD writer and DJ Harold Heath investigate

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I was asked by excellent writer Harold Heath to take part in this piece regarding streaming and the worth of the ‘album’ these days.
I think I spoke sense.
Have a read & discuss.

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Very much looking forward to this year's #BrightonMusicConference . I'm chairing a panel examining the links between Neurodiversity & DJing, and my neurodivergent DJ panelists and I are playing at a little evening bash too. Details to follow 😊✊🎧 #BMC24

My kid reminded us yesterday that we all did an ADHD test ages ago, and my wife scored low, my kid scored average and I didn't finish the test because I got bored and wandered off

We’ve just kicked off our Tinnitus UK awareness week series over on Mixmag

Starting off with an emotional essay from our guest editor Seb, on the impact sudden hearing loss and tinnitus had on his life 🤍
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One thing that a lot of people don't understand in the music journalism debate is that a lot of people - myself included - just really love writing about music. It's not for clout or to get into the music industry or to know artists or build a brand or get free stuff. We love it.

Reminder that the Bloody Sunday Inquiry found:

- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire.

We are still awaiting the first prosecution

Pitchfork’s absorption into GQ is a travesty for music media – and musicians | Laura Snapes theguardian.com/music/2024/jan…

When there are no decent music magazines or sites left, and all that remains is sponsored content, advertorial, paid-for exclusives, ad placement-dependent features, press releases re-written as articles, corporate playlists and pay-to-upload streaming sites... what then?

Re Pitchfork, I don't even have to write a new tweet: