Henry Ivry

Feb 12, 2025 | djmag.com | Henry Ivry

It's 10:30am on a Sunday in 2014. I’m swaying to a pad-heavy house track delivered by Texan DJ Willie Burns as the morning light glistens through the faux-stained glass that looks over the open air dancefloor of the now-shuttered club, Griessmuehle. It’s that magical time in Berlin when the crowd is transitioning from the late night crew to the fresh-faced punters gearing up for the day.

Jan 8, 2025 | daily.bandcamp.com | Henry Ivry

LABEL PROFILE Where to Start With Tempa, The Label That Invented Dubstep By Henry Ivry · January 08, 2025 It’s hard to overstate just how important the British label Tempa has been in the rise of bass-forward UK club music. Originally founded by Neil Jolliffe in 2000, the label was a key part of an insurgent movement pushing a darker strand of UK garage. That genre—shorthanded UKG—had taken over the charts in Britain, becoming a bit too glossy and poppy in the process.

Dec 12, 2024 | hearingthings.co | Henry Ivry

When clubs began opening back up after COVID lockdowns, it made complete sense that the mantra in music circles seemed to be: Harder. Faster. Poppier. After months of livestreams and thinkpieces about the healing powers of ambient music, losing your shit to a jungle flip of Ciara was medicinal. At first, it was trance and progressive house that captured the zeitgeist, but even the sugar highs of those genres soon began to taste like flat Diet Pepsi compared to Eurodance, hard house, and gabber.

Aug 13, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Henry Ivry

From to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, we live in a moment of infrastructural collapse. Large-scale public works projects have been privatized, meaning that the systems of circulation that enable day-to-day life—from pipelines to data clouds, drinking water to education—are crumbling at increasingly accelerated rates. Now is “a scene shaped by the infrastructural breakdown of modernist practices,” writes Lauren Berlant.

Aug 7, 2024 | djmag.com | Henry Ivry

Credit: Paul Samuel WhiteThe word “community” has become something of a clubland cliché in recent times, but for Bristol’s Daisy Moon, it’s been the guiding principle for her life in music. Whether she’s DJing at local haunt Strange Brew or at Love International festival, releasing music on labels like Peach Discs, Rhythm Section and CURL, promoting parties, or tutoring aspiring artists through the Mix Nights programme, she imbues everything she does with that unifying, collective feeling.