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We caught up with some of the artists playing our Miami pool party — ACRAZE, Cassy, Dombresky, Heidi Lawden, Jaden Thompson, Kasia, LP Giobbi, Purple Disco Machine and Mau P — to ask them for their Miami plans and tips

When Dominic Matheson started throwing parties for fun with his friends in Melbourne, he never imagined he’d become the house sensation that he is today. DJ Mag sits down with the artist better known as Dom Dolla ahead of his headlining appearance at DJ Mag’s Miami Music Week party to learn more about his songwriting aspirations and the moments on the road that inspire his dancefloor-filling repertoire

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Room 4 Resistance and Jacktone Records’ Doc Sleep spotlights head-spinning club tracks, deep dancefloor rollers and far-out ambience

Dance Your Way Home is a new book by music and culture writer Emma Warren. Subtitled ‘A Journey Through The Dancefloor’, Emma travels through a number of different dance spaces over time — from school discos to the fiercest drum & bass raves, and many places in between — to focus on a set of people who have often been left out of dance music history. Here, we run an excerpt from the book that Emma picked out for DJ Mag that focuses on how house music grew at Chicago's sock hops

Miami’s homegrown electronic music scene is popping off. Longstanding stalwarts and rising artists are coming together to offer an alternative to dominant mainstream sounds, blending influences from around the globe and firing them back out to capture dancefloors the world over. Alongside a blazing mix of Miami club music from Bitter Babe, James Gui spotlights eight key acts in the scene’s new wave, discussing their hybrid styles, incubatory events, and the huge variety of talent coming through

We catch up with every artist playing our Miami Music Week pool party at the Sagamore Hotel: ACRAZE, Cassy, Dombresky, Dom Dolla, Heidi Lawden, Jaden Thompson, Kasia, LP Giobbi, Purple Disco Machine and Mau P

Jaye Ward is a bastion of UK underground dance music, with a DJing career that stretches over 30 years and encompasses clubs, raves, squat parties and festivals of all kinds. Alongside a two-hour mix capturing the unbeatable energy of her Dalston Superstore residency, she chats to Ben Murphy about her eclectic music tastes, intergenerational dancefloors, and the pivotal role of LGBTQ+ people in club culture

Recent Grammy winner Purple Disco Machine hit the big time thanks to his accessible, irresistible take on house music with a disco twist. But his journey has been far from conventional. Here, Marke Bieschke speaks to the German DJ and producer about his early years in the underground, his love of disco, quitting music to become a school teacher, and how his return to the scene with a more relaxed attitude has fuelled his journey to the top

Get acquainted with Dr. Ushūu, the Lisbon-born, Paris-based artist whose explosive, space-age beats are shaking up festivals and the official Fortnite soundtrack

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, London's DJ IC spotlights ten Afro house and tech essentials 

Part of New York’s thriving underground and the cross-States Juke Bounce Werk crew, DJ SWISHA has established himself as an essential producer and DJ covering footwork, house, jungle and more. Alongside a high-energy mix joining the dots between Jersey and Baltimore club music and techno, he speaks to Tice Cin about friendship, club culture and his mysterious former alias

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 latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From contemporary takes on classic house and techno to future-facing hip-hop, breaks and bass, here’s March 2023’s list of upcoming talent you should be keeping track of

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Ruf Dug goes from peak time to downtime with house, dub, outsider pop, avant-jazz and more

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Released in 1997, Drexciya's double-vinyl compilation 'The Quest' marked the duo's breakthrough onto a larger public stage, as well as their first, temporary, retirement. With liner notes that sharpened their Afrofuturist mythology into focus , it is also the record that cemented many fans' sonic liaison with the Detroit duo, following a series of 12" releases that perfected their musical ideas. Here, Ben Cardew reflects on a record that most perfectly encapsulates the style, grace, and range of James Stinson and Gerald Donald's project

Kyoto’s Stones Taro sprints from acid-scorched techno and electro into sizzling breaks and garage for the Fresh Kicks series, and chats to Ben Murphy about his love of ‘90s UK dance music, his NC4K label with Lomax, and his local scene

Tampa duo They Hate Change made an international impact in 2022 with their album, ‘Finally, New’, showcasing an exhilarating mix of Floridian rap and breaks with flourishes of jungle, drum & bass and UK rave. They talk to Eoin Murray about the birth of the Gulf Coast sound, learning from the DIY scene, and joining a global community of artists pushing innovative genre fusions
 

Get acquainted with Miss Grit, the producer and multi-instrumentalist whose debut LP explores themes of self-actualisation and identity with cyborgs

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Zoë Mc Pherson spotlights sumptuous R&B and experimental hip-hop, footwork, deep house, d&b and more