While we all know that the sounds of juke and footwork kicked off in Chicago, we'd be playing ourselves if we said that the only juke and footwork movements were relegated to the Windy City. The ...

We already saw DJ Clent make a beat in six minutes in the first "I'm Tryna Tell Ya" edition of "Beat This," and now he's back for a 38 minute mix full of footwork and juke. There's no working download ...

Well, the same thing happened again: Chicago house spread around the world as the foundation of dance music everywhere as Chicago moved over to hip-hop, as Michaelangelo Matos details in an excellent ...

DJ Rashad hovers over his laptop at a Lit City Rave hosted by New York venue 285 Kent in fall 2012. Credit: Wills Glasspiegel Spinn had been looking forward to the festival for months, but, as he says ...

Launched in 2024 by a group of 160 BPM enthusiasts, Korea’s “only” footwork event is building a bridge between Chicago and Seoul – all while encouraging clubbers to get a sweat on Functions is our ...

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Perhaps you've exhausted every episode of our FADER Mix series, and you're looking for an unending stream of energetic and unique music. DJ Clent's got you: the Chicago producer has launched Beatdown ...

Footwork is functional music at its core. It’s all in the name. Its purpose is to propel acrobatically nimble dancers into motion and send their feet flying. Drawing from the deep bowels of house and ...