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Are we burning out, or just longing for simpler times?

That is the question worth asking as a generation raised on taping the mixes off Radio 1, whilst we quietly rebuild our record shelves....

Throwback Thursday: Vestax’s VRX-2000 and the Dubplate You Could Make at Home

Throwback Thursday this week takes us somewhere slightly odd. Not a record, not a club, but a machine. Every so often a piece of...

Taylor Swift, BTS & More: How Target Became a Key Player In New Albums

Nearly two years ago, Target was reimagining how to best serve superfans across all sectors, from books and toys to sports and music. “One...

Before Dubplates There Were Bones: The Soviet X-Ray Vinyl Story

How Cold War Leningrad pressed its forbidden records into other people’s skeletons, and why every bedroom producer who has ever cut a dubplate owes...

Godskitchen, Reloaded: Fergie Returns to the Room That Made Him

The last time Decoded sat down properly with Fergie aka Robert Ferguson, Daz Pearson was holding the dictaphone, the venue conversation revolved around Legends...

Fergus Alexander: 25 years of Raving through the shadows of Brisbane

It’s close to 2pm when Fergus Alexander pulls up outside my hotel in Brisbane’s inner north, engine idling, a faint pulse of Selador sessions leaking through...

Throwback Thursday: The Technics SL-DZ1200 — Beautiful, Ambitious, and a Little Broken

There are pieces of gear that divide a room, and the Technics SL-DZ1200 is one of them. Even now, mentioning it to the right...

Korg Revives the Vestax Handy Trax Portable Turntable

Have you ever just wanted to play your records anywhere? Not in a club, not in a bedroom, not tethered to a setup that...

The Record Crate Gets Its Long Overdue Redesign

There’s a particular kind of frustration that every serious record collector knows. You’ve spent years, possibly decades, building a collection that means something to...

From DJs to Data Points: How We Traded Musical Expertise for Engagement Metrics

Recently over the holidays, I took advantage of a Spotify deal, 2 months free back on an account I stopped paying for a year...

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