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Disclosure: Settle

Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 3 June 2013

CLUBLAND HAS been polarised between two dispiriting extremes for close on a decade now. If the DJ isn't playing twitchy, edgy, introspective grime or dubstep, the chances are he is spinning some unspeakable, blaring cheese-fest by David Guetta, Calvin Harris or Swedish House Mafia.

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