Leah McKenzie
Assistant Editor/Media Sales Director
Leah joined Core Magazine in 2008 to assist with Sales/Development and became Media Sales Director in 2012. Originally from Bradford, Leah started her Media Sales career in Birmingham in 1999 after graduating from University in Paris. After having worked for various publications at management level, Leah moved to France with her family in 2009 but continued her proactive work for Core.
Leah's role is interchangeable - whilst her main role within Core is to increase and manage the level of sales and advertising, she is also currently Assistant Editor within the team.
Leah lives on a farm in France, loves horses, her children, her husband and of course, music! She's even been known to don the odd 'glo stick' on the right occasion :)
Win Tickets To See Ferry Corsten LIVE!
Ferry Corsten will be performing his third 8hr Corsten's Countdown in front of a live audience at the RTÉ Pulse studios in Dublin, June 2nd. It'll be followed by a special extended set gig at the city's Academy club. This is the FIRST time he's done one of these this side of the Atlantic, so something a bit special! And guess what!!! We have TWO pairs (2x2) of tickets to the penultimate hour of the in studio show at RTÉ AND the aftershow at The Academy!
DJ Daft – Learning Enabled
This interview is a bit of a special one. DJ Daft comes from the state of Connecticut in the USA and was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at the age of 8. We wanted to chat to him to find out more about Asperger's and why you are what you put your mind to, no matter what. We love this guy!
DJ Laith Talks Pants!
This week, Core catches up with DJ Laith, Hard Beats Collective member and all round super nice guy. We talk pants 'n' jam ahead of the HBC Event 4, Sound As A Pound, that kicks off this Friday. We also twisted his arm for an exclusive mix just for you! Want to know more? Give it a read!
Tom York And Ajala Believe Again
Here at Core, we all about the weird, wonderful and eclectic so when we discovered Tom York and Ajala, we were keen to discover how they moved from rock/pop/rnb into electro/dance with massive European success. We talk fridges, water parks, chance meetings in Paris and what the future holds for them the pair…
Giuseppe Ottaviani - 'Magenta', Out This Week
With his second album, Giuseppe Ottaviani has delivered the pitch-perfect ‘GO!’ sequel - a consummate long-player whose panoramic studio-ware will draw you in… and keep you there for months. Not simply EDM, but surround-sound, big room-filling 3DM, this summer’s colour… is ‘Magenta’. Undoubtedly the Italian's finest studio work to date!
The Garden Festival, Croatia, Announces Four More Boat Parties
With less than two months to go until the 8th instalment of The Garden Festival in the idyllic coastal town of Tisno, Croatia, four brand new boat parties have just been announced on The Arbiana, a beautiful boat. Brighton beat-smiths Schtumm, Berlin’s creative collective Somethinksounds, London-based party and DJ duo Krankbrother and Birmingham’s brilliantly left of centre Leftfoot are hosting shows. Special guests include cosmic sound-scapes from Space Dimension Controller, Brighton’s bright young producer Maxxi Soundsystem and Italian acid-jazzer Nicola Conte, who set sail across the sparklingly azure Adriatic. Tickets are on sale now!
Kramnik Drops It
With high flying tastemakers such as Richie Hawtin, Stephan Bodzin, John Digweed, Macromism (Tronic/Be As One, Lee Curtiss, Hernan Cattaneo, Lee Pennington and Sven Vath playing Kram Records new 'Drop It Vol 1" EP, we catch up with head honcho, Kramnik. Here he talks about the new EP, new artists like Buru, Oliver Gross and Paul Bart, and his Invisible Radio show that continues to add listeners with every new show. Core caught up with him to find out more. Excited? You should be!
Mirror City - An Expression Of A Collective Vision
Mirror City, a reflection of the rhythm of life, the sweat-fuelled intensity of the dancefloor and sounds that defy genre classification. These guys burst onto the scene in 2012 and have made a serious impact in a short space of time and we, at Core, just had to find out more about them! Check out our interview AND get your exclusive mix right here!
The Gallery Celebrates 18 Years With 3 CD Mix
The time has come to mark the most important of anniversaries. Eighteen years is a milestone in any lifetime, but one The Gallery is especially proud. Providing ‘excellence in the art of sound’ every Friday night, with moments, which really have defined a generation.
'One Thousand Suns' - Feat. Christian Burns Out Now
Last summer, two electronic music legends arrived at the outer limits of anthem status with their first co-production, ‘One Thousand Suns’. Already greater than the sum of its parts, English singer-songwriter extraordinaire Christian Burns now joins Chicane & Ferry Corsten on the track to bring it a whole new dimension. Applying his hyper-infectious, carry-you-away vocals, collectively they’re about to tip One Thousand Suns into supernova.