One year of Analog Room
With the best underground weekly night turning one on November 28, we caught up with promoter and resident DJ Mehdi Ansari to find out more Congrats on the 1st birthday – what have been the highlights?
Since we start, so many good things have happened to us. Most important was to see how interested people are in quality underground music. Having RBMA Radio covering our artists many times and being the first party to be able to get international residents like Delano Smith,
Watching the wheels of steel with the UAE’s aspiring DJs
The electronic music scene is gaining ground in the UAE with new clubs sprouting up in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. But local DJs often struggle with the bureaucracy and monopolies rampant in the industry. As an art form, music is not immediately associated with business. However, for the people behind the decks, the experience is marred by technicalities such as fees, bookings, agents and a host of guidelines. Coupled with the fact that the country’s nightlife scene seems to be domi
Aquatic grooves from the deep: Moscow's underground house authority Anton Zap captured live in t
Moscow-born and raised producer Anton Zap has been causing a storm with his waves of deep house and aquatic electronics ever since his first couple of releases back in 2007. With music production and DJing a constant from an early age, it was only a matter of time before his explorative sound spread beyond the Russian capital, and it was his second release on deep house staple Underground Quality, and his tag-team 12" with DJ Jus-Ed Real House Music… that really marked him ou
Thump and vibe in a warrior style: New Jersey’s DJ Qu drops his unique take on deep, dark house musi
Despite the many incarnations that house music has had over the decades, few can claim to embody its spirit quite like DJ Qu. Getting a thorough schooling in New Jersey house music growing up dancing through the late 80s and early 90s, DJ Qu has absorbed and been absorbed by house music all his life. While not producing professionally until many years later, DJ Qu already had soaked up enough dance music culture to instinctively catch a vibe. He began his label Strength Music
