Hot on the heels of their 25th anniversary issue, Mixmag’s editor Nick Decosemo branded indie rock music ‘dead’ this week, and suggested dance music is returning to the mainstream. “Music and fashion are always cyclical, we had the Strokes in 2001 which essentially killed dance music and now we’ve had the Kooks which has essentially killed indie rock,” Nick told Skrufff. “That style of indie rock has become the music for cat food commercials,” he laughed.

The former FHM fashion editor and erstwhile singer for Freeform Five predicted a minimum five year renaissance period for dance music with a wave of new stars set to emerge. “In that time when dance music was dead it was the best thing that happened,” he said, “Because there was a shift from these fucking huge stupid superclub extravaganza style events towards people who were really passionate about putting on a good party on a smaller scale, stepping in and throwing events for 400 or 500 people instead of 20,000.”

“Plus all these smaller scenes like minimal and electroclash emerged and were allowed to flourish and grow without being jumped on and squashed,” he continued, “It feels like a really exciting time for dance and electronic music again, it’s coming back in vogue again, it’s what the cool kids are into again.”