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A chat with OWSLA regular, Kill The Noise

As Kill the Noise, Jake Stanczak rode the builds and drops of bass music to mass acclaim in the brostep era ...

 The Day After Festival in Panama is the ticket

It’s cold in the Eastern Hemisphere. And as the temperature continues to drop with the velocity of a big-room banger, DJ Mag...

In a rare interview, the Music On don talks candidly to DJ Mag...

Marco Carola is an enigma. In a rare interview, the Italian techno DJ/producer and Music On promoter talks to DJ Mag about record shopping in...

New Order's Gillian Gilbert on being away, bringing the disco back, the whole ‘Hooky thing’ and Christmas at the Gilbert-Morris home.

One night in Manchester, England in 1980, 19-year-old keyboardist/guitarist Gillian Gilbert hitched a ride with boys in a fellow band: drummer Stephen Morris and the...

Italian progressive whiz dishes on his debut artist album, 'Towards'

“I don’t judge music by genre. I listen to techno, I listen to classical, I listen to everything. And I try to only listen to...

The beckoning stars of 2016

From soot-soaked techno to day-glo grime — jackin' house grooves to colourful drum & bass jams — the future is looking bright for dance music...

We take a look back at the news of 2015 through the prism of the international dance music scene. It's been quite a year!

January is a notoriously slow month in clubland — a time when gym memberships take priority over all-nighters and pennies are scraped together. Many top...

Get your 2016 off with a bang at one of DJ Mag's chosen New Year's Eve/New Year's Day events in various parts of the UK...

Whether the last 12 months have been kind to you or not, chances are there’s only one option when it comes to sending 2015 off...

Top 10 remixes of 2015...

01. Eats Everything feat Tiga vs Audion
'Dancing (Again!)'
Method White

02. Tensnake
'Holding Back Your Love (Tiger & Woods Remix)'
Running Back 

03. Seven...

A dizzying, somewhat cloudy, very busy recounting of this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event

ADE. All the techno, EDM, leather jackets, live streams, networking and café pit stops you can handle. Don’t expect to sleep. We certainly didn’t. DJ...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINEES
DANCE TUNNEL, LONDON
BLACK BOX, BIRMINGHAM
CORSICA STUDIOS, LONDON
PATTERNS, BRIGHTON

UNDERGROUND SOUNDS
It’s been another huge year for Glasgow’s underground clubbing jewell...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINEES

WEISS
ELI & FUR
TOUGH LOVE
SAM DIVINE

With a father like Harri James — one half of legendary Sub Club DJ duo Harri...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINEES
MR BEATNICK 
SHANTI CELESTE 
IVY LAB 
FORT ROMEAU

Some might argue Palms Trax broke-through with ‘Equation’ on Lobster Theremin in 2013. Jay Donaldson’s...

Best of British 2015, educted by Point Blank

JUNGLIST POSSE!
We've awarded the Outstanding Contribution award to drum & bass dons Fabio & Grooverider, to recognise their major contribution in birthing that great...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

 

THE DISCO DADDIO
We decided to give Greg Wilson the Industry Icon gong this year for services to disco over many years, over and...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINEES
LOBSTER THEREMIN
PC MUSIC
FINA
22A CREW

The boys from Dixon Avenue Basement Jams have had a seriously good year. The brainchild of...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

 

OTHER NOMINEES
TIM GREEN 'ECLIPSE'
PAUL WOOLFORD 'MDMA’
STEVE LAWLER ‘HOUSE RECORD’
KIWI 'SHORT TAIL'

JUST AMAZING
Irish duo Bicep have scooped the Best...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINEES
ACID MONDAYS 'INTERSTELLAR CAKE (RICHY AHMED REMIX)'
APHROHEAD 'LET'S PRANCE (RADIO SLAVE & THOMAS GANDEY REMIX)'
ERIC PRYDZ 'OPUS (FOUR TET REMIX)'
DUSKY...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

 

OTHER NOMINATIONS
MISTAJAM – BBC RADIO 1XTRA
COCO COLE – CAPITAL XTRA
NIGHT SLUGS - RINSE FM
SLIMZEE – NTS

ANNIE, GET YOUR GONG...

Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINEES
MR G
SPECIAL REQUEST AKA PAUL WOOLFORD
JULIO BASHMORE
FLOATING POINTS

FEEL THE SUNSHINE
Maya Jane Coles, aka Nocturnal Sunshine, has beaten the...