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Shift Happens: The Year That Dance Music Decided to Be Sincere Again
First Floor #244 – Nostalgia Apparently Has Its Limits, Even in Dance Music
One Y2K-Era Sound That Hasn't Had a Revival
First Floor #243 – If an Album Gets Released and No One Writes About It, Does It Make a Sound?
So Many Releases, So Few Reviews
First Floor #242 – Bubbles Everywhere
Why Aren't Electronic Music Podcasts More of a Thing?
First Floor #241 – Coping Mechanisms
A Day Off from Music Discourse
First Floor #240 – Creeping Toward Uncertainty
First Floor #239 – Stuck in a Bubble
Ayesha Is Piecing Herself Back Together
First Floor #238 – There's No Roadmap
First Floor #237, Part 2 – Nothing But Tunes
First Floor #237, Part 1 – The More Things Change...
The Music Press Has Decided to Pivot
First Floor #236 – Coping with an Avalanche
Oliver Coates Can't Escape the Cello
First Floor #235 – Five Years of This Thing
Aslice Offered Carrots. Fixing Dance Music Requires Sticks.
First Floor #234 – Rave Dialogue vs. Rave Reality
Emily Witt Started Raving in 2016, and Then the World Turned Upside Down
First Floor #233 – There Are Other Options (or at Least There Should Be)
Maybe Fewer Festivals Wouldn't Be a Bad Thing
First Floor #232 – Things Evolve
Tim Reaper Honors Jungle's Past—But He's More Interested in Its Future
First Floor #231 – A Different Sort of Clown Show
The Expanding Shackleton Universe
First Floor #230 – Trying Something New
Vincent Bevins on Protest, Politics and a World Where Everyone Is a Broadcaster
First Floor #229 – Staying Inside
First Floor #228 – The Covid Boogeyman
The Pandemic Didn't Ruin Dance Music
First Floor #227 – Nothing Stays the Same Forever
The Influencerization of Music Journalism
First Floor #226 – There's No Such Thing As an Unbiased Listener
I Like Pop (Not the Popular Kind)
First Floor #225 – Knowing Where to Look
First Floor #224 – Are You New Here?
"Just DJs" Seem to Be Making a Comeback. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.
First Floor #223 – Lost and Found
Dubbel Dutch Is Ready to Reconnect
First Floor #222 – Optimism Where You Least Expect It
Is Ethical Music AI Possible? Voice-Swap Thinks So.
First Floor #221 – Post-Dubstep Memories
First Floor #220 – Pass the Mic
First Floor #219 – A Subculture Lacking in Shared Experiences
First Floor #218 – An Unlikely Prophet
Albini Wasn't Entirely Wrong About Dance Music
First Floor #217 – Set Me on Fire
Martyn Reflects on the Idea of "Techno-Infuenced" Bass Music
First Floor #216 – The Beat Never Stops
First Floor #215 – Into the Digital Dance Abyss
The Holy Hell of Cursed Jumpstyle
First Floor #214 – Get Me Out of Here
Arguing Is All That Dance Music Has Left
First Floor #213 – An Incomplete Conversation
I'm Ready to Read Some Negative Album Reviews
First Floor #212 - A Little Bit of Time Travel
First Floor #211 – At Least People Are Talking About This Stuff
I Can't Believe I'm Writing About James Blake (Again)
First Floor #210 – Everybody Wants to Be an Artist, Nobody Wants to Pay for Art
A Music Industry That Doesn't Sell Music
First Floor #209 – Trapped in a Game We Didn't Ask to Play
The Medium Is (Still) the Message
First Floor #208 – Even That Guy Is Unhappy?
First Floor #207 – Nothing Is Forever
The Unexpected Return of L-Vis 1990
First Floor #206 – A Trend Worth Celebrating
First Floor #205 – Locust Behavior
The Fraught Life Cycle of Regional Music Trends
First Floor #204 – An Unexpected Revival
claire rousay Made an Emo Record. A Real One.
First Floor #203 – Looking in the Mirror
Music News Has Lost Its Appeal
First Floor #202 – Ghosts of the Past
I Was There When Trance Went Bad
First Floor #201 – Down the Drain