In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM’s music “fake shit” and ...

DJ Sneak (AKA Carlos Sosa) doesn’t need an introduction if you know house music. Sneak has been running around bragging that he’s a house gangster for a while now. And that’s a pretty bold claim. Well ...

Pumping insistence is the hallmark of all house music, but the work of DJ Sneak, both as a producer and a DJ, insists a bit more fervently than most. His tempos are a shade faster than the house norm, ...

Other than the music journalists who get something to post about, does anyone win when artists get into flame wars? In hip-hop, the competitive spirit of public beefs has led to some great diss tracks ...

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Commonly regarded as the disco filter innovator, Sneak's trademark style (whether he is playing Latin salsa rhythms or jackin' Chicago beats) has taken him all around the world and has landed him very ...

Held on August 26 at 8pm BST, the masterclass will see DJ Sneak creating a track using Pioneer DJ's sampler, the DJS-1000. Throughout the session, DJ Sneak will talk through his process of sampling.

Outspoken dance music legend DJ Sneak used a recent interview to explain what he thinks makes a true DJ. The House Gangster said: "If you're a DJ you learn how to mix with decks first... I don't care ...

Ahead of his upcoming gig for LWE at Tobacco Dock on August 9th, the one and only DJ Sneak regales Mike Boorman in brilliant detail about all things BBQ; a topic so close to his heart that it caused a ...

These days, so many house DJs and producers are indistinguishable from one another. That’s probably because most of them are trying to emulate Chicago’s DJ Sneak and his counterparts, who were at the ...

One of the masters of the ’90s 'second wave' of Chicago house, Carlos Sosa left sunny Puerto Rico for a life in dark and rainy Chicago in 1983. Having brought with him the rhythms of salsa, merengue ...

DJ Sneak is probably best known as the self-proclaimed "Mad Skunk Burner" from Basement Jaxx's Remedy album, so it's perhaps understandable that this third solo set from the Puerto Rican should follow ...