In the past few days, we’ve received a lot of messages regarding the MDL Festival in Saudi Arabia. After reading some of the articles written and the messages sent there’s a few things worth highlighting. In general, it can be said that playing events that are linked to governments is…

Peggy Gou announcing a partnership with Jägermeister seemed like a noble idea to save the nightlife industry while it’s been on its knees. People celebrated her engagement, but there’s more to it. — On July 7th 2020 Sub Club launched a crowdfunding campaign. On the same day we got aware that Sub Club is co-owned by a multimillionaire. After becoming aware of the Sub Club fundraiser #SaveOurSub, we did a quick search and came across a BBC article from 2016 about one of…

In November 2020, DJ Mag presented its “Alternative Top 100 DJs list” in association with Beatport. According to the authors, the motivation behind this list was “to shine a light on the DJs playing sounds on the periphery of the global poll in recent years, despite commanding huge audiences worldwide.” …

For months now, we’ve documented the so-called plague raves. We’ve referred to virologists and epidemiologists in our articles, explaining to people why such events are counterproductive in this pandemic. One issue that has been especially concerning for quite a while is that of wealthy European DJs like Denis Sulta, Dixon…

In an interview with NDR from the 16th of April, Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten, head of virology at the Berlin Charité, made some predictions about how the pandemic may spread in the future. In order to do so, he drew an analogy with the Spanish flu. As with the Spanish…

When Dixon played in Tunisia in August, he was sending out a clear message that the economic interests of high-profile DJs are worth taking advantage of other countries’ less stricter COVID-19 rules. In this case, a country where the number of cases multiplied since. We have made it clear that…