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Paul van Dyk and DJ Pierre link up on new three-track EP, 'ACID TRAXXX': Listen

 The German trance producer and the Chicago acid house innovator team up for the latest VANDIT Alternative release
 

Paul van Dyk and DJ Pierre have teamed up for a new EP, 'ACID TRAXXX'. Listen to the title track below. The German trance producer...

A history of Trax Records and the fight for Chicago's house pioneers' royalties

Chicago’s Trax Records released some of the most influential records in house history, but decades later, many of the artists behind them are still waiting to be paid. Harold Heath investigates the long and complicated history of one of house music’s most infamous labels

The Trax Records saga is a tangled tale of pioneering, seminal music created by a clutch of hungry young producers and DJs, whose raw, innovative...

From: Cardiff

For fans of: Octo Octa, Jamie xx, Floorplan

Three tunes: ‘Every Body Is Welcome’, ‘Avant Garde’, ‘Compromise... For What?’

ON ELKKA’s new EP, there’s a slow-burning house track based on a sample of Laurie Anderson, the New York performance artist who had a surprise...

To celebrate 35 years in the game, Phuture’s DJ Pierre locks 35 remixes of the seminal ‘Acid Track’. Hear Luciano’s moody reimagining now...

Acid house pioneer DJ Pierre is celebrating 35 years of DJing with 35 remixes of ‘Acid Track’.

The iconic cut, produced by Pierre and the...

DJ Pierre, Irvine Welsh and Laidback Luke are also on the cards... 

Carl Cox, Armin van Buuren and Richie Hawtin are among the names locked-in for this year's Winter Music Conference. 

The Miami institution marks its 34th...

We welcome the acid house legend to #DJMagHQ

Every Friday, we invite some of the world’s best DJs to our London offices for a #DJMAGHQ live stream to our Facebook and Youtube pages...

DJ Pierre Live From #DJMagHQ

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30 years in the making...

Get Physical has announced that it will release the debut album from Chicago house innovator DJ Pierre.

Nathaniel Pierre Jones was one of the very...

29th April...

Paul Kalkbrenner is taking his Back To The Future concept on a European tour that takes in stops in Germany, Sweden the U.K. and more...

DJ Pierre, DJ Hyperactive & more all spin on Saturday 28th January...

Daft Punk released their debut album, ‘Homework’, 20 years ago this year, and to mark the occasion Boiler Room have planned a tribute show which...

RIP Earl Smith...

Earl Smith, known to the world as DJ Spank-Spank and a founding member of acid house group Phuture, has died.

The cause of death is...

Ticket buyers won’t be offered a refund...

Groovefest, which was set to take place at a resort on the Barcelo Bavaro Beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, from Sunday 4th to Sunday...

‘The House of the Windy – Dance Music’s Forgotten Heroes’ charts the history of the genre...

Dave Pearce has made a documentary on the history of Chicago house, which will air on BBC Radio 4 today (12th July), as well as...

Are you heading down to the UK's only electronic music conference in Brighton?

Brighton Music Conference (BMC) has just announced its first raft of DJ names. The organisers tell DJ Mag that they are confirming DJs and leading...

See who is playing at the tropical music festival...

Groovefest has just revealed the first part of its 2015 line-up. Set to take place from the September 6th — 13th at a luxury resort...

The notorious Ibiza outfit presents some diverse party delights

DJ Mag chats to DJ Pierre about the first proper acid house track...

Nathaniel Pierre Jones was forever tinkering around with electronic devices and mending watches when he was a kid growing up in Chicago. 

“I just naturally...

Acid pioneer DJ Pierre and more confirmed for final BMC line-up

The Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is only just over a week away, and excitement is building in the dance music industry in the UK for...

A serious techno mix

Techno master Joey Beltram releases an exclusive mix for Halocyan records in celebration of his new Dosem remix that came out last month along...

With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...

Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'.
Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.