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Best of North America Awards 2017
It’s been a wild, breakout ride for Los Angeles-based DJ/producer Lauren Lane over the past few years, catapulting her through the global tech house scene...
Best of North America Awards 2017
Kaytranada most definitely arrived with his 2016 debut album ‘99.9%’, and it’s so much more surprising than anything you may expect. Formerly known as Kaytradamus...
Worthy Farm’s psychedelic playground marks its tenth anniversary with a vintage year...
Block9 at Glastonbury Festival marked its tenth anniversary at the Somerset shindig last weekend, which ran from 21st to 25th June on Worthy Farm in...
Tracing the journey of the d&b kid from the Midlands...
Goldie is back with an amazing new album. And not just any old album either. Hugely ambitious in breadth and scope, 'The Journey Man' is...
From the Minimoog to the Roland TR-808...
Some of the most important innovations in electronic music came about by mistake. Whether it be the way that Roland's TR-808 and then the TR-909...
DJ Mag reflects on the legendary singer's impact on dance music...
George Michael, who passed away at the tail end of last year, started off in the clubs before making it big with Wham! As a...
Deep, down and dirty at Worthy Farm’s sexy psychedelic playground...
This month, one of the world’s wildest clubbing spaces opens its doors again — for one long weekend only. The temporary queer autonomous zone that...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
Mauro Picotto, the Italian DJ/producer who shot to international prominence in the late ‘90s, is back with a new album — his first for a...
We meet Stef from Tough Love to hear his special seven ahead of DJ Mag Sessions at Starworks
Stef and Alex met on the London clubbing circuit — both were resident DJs and both had an inkling to get in the studio. “I...
We fire some questions at the Lobster Boy boss ahead of his DJ Mag Sessions in Wolverhampton on 28th May
For those who lived through the so-called ‘post-dubstep’ years, it was an exciting time merging various forms of bass-driven music in innovative and exciting ways...
Proof that the scene is still going strong
Despite a succession of club closures during 2016, the UK scene has remained bullish. In London, Fabric has been saved to everyone’s relief and a...
Ready to talk openly about her traverses as a trans DJ, we sit down and get to know Octo Octa over Skype...
Shortly after coming out as transgender, Brooklyn’s Octo Octa released ‘Where Are We Going’ on Honey Soundsystem, an exceptionally classy piano-led house/techno album on which she embraces...
We catch up to find out all about his new project...
Carl Craig, one of the most important artists in techno, has been working with an orchestra to breathe new life into some of his back...
We get the lowdown with Keith Tenniswood before 'Luxury Sky Garden' lands in May
Keith Tenniswood has reignited his Radioactive Man moniker for another wildly experimental and blistering take on electro — in his own inimitable way. DJ Mag...
Fresh acts rising to the top...
DJ Mag brings you 9 acts to check out in May.
AUTARKIC
New wave love songs
‘I Love You, Go Away’; a beautifully...
Jaye Ward, Honey Dijon, JD Samson, Mandidextrous and DJ Sprinkles talk gender identity, safe spaces, privilege and the power of the internet...
Words: JOE ROBERTS // Pics: JEF McMAHAN, COMATONSE RECORDINGS
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“Trans is so hot right now,” chuckles Jaye Ward, the Hackney-based DJ whose lineage of...
We check in with the Phonox resident...
FROM? KARRATHA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
SOUNDS LIKE? ANTAL, MR BONGO, JACKMASTER
THREE TUNES? FIRST TUNES COMING MAY 2017
“THINK RED DIRT, bull ants and scorching heat!”...