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The Sound Of: Kindergarten Records

New York’s Kindergarten Records has become an essential outpost for hard-to-define, easy-to-dance-to club music in just two short years. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, founder Ma Sha tells Sophie McNulty how friendship and a sense of fun are at the heart of the imprint

“When people open up our Bandcamp page, they can expect this welcoming vibe that’s like, ‘Are you ready to go on an adventure with us?’”...

Each month we bring you nine acts popping off at the moment...

DOMENIC CAPELLO

ONE half of Glasgow’s longest-running resident DJ duo Harri & Domenic, Domenic Capello is definitely not a new name. In fact, he’s without...

Dillon Francis steps further into the spotlight with the release of his debut album, 'Money Sucks, Friends Rule'...

It’s the cusp of fall in Los Angeles, and one of the hottest days of the year. The air is thick and heavy; its weight...

Before his death in 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the American gay underground's most thrilling dance music, from chart-topping disco to radical club tracks...

There’s a notorious scene in 1980 thriller Cruising that might be the best fictional time capsule we have of a wanton, unfettered gay dance floor...

 

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

A new initiative, started by the founder of Love Parade, aims to have Berlin's techno scene recognised as a cultural practice, supported and preserved by...

It’s a grey, wet Tuesday morning in Berlin, and inside an unassuming building in Wedding, a fourth-floor apartment is buzzing with activity. It’s the home...

Printworks, Bangface, Junk, Motion, House of God, Maximum Pressure; tickets, please... 

The year is gathering momentum like a runaway techno cut, so it's already time for the top 30 UK club events in March 2018.

Amazingly festival...

The melodic deep house of Maya Jane Coles’ ‘What They Say’ helped put her on the map, and soon went on to be sampled by...

Even if you’ve never consciously set out to listen to ‘What They Say’ by Maya Jane Coles, you’ve almost certainly heard it before. Over the...

Breakthrough UK label Invicta Audio celebrates its first birthday with a compilation of next-gen d&b fusions

Nominated for Best Breakthrough Label of 2020 at DJ Mag’s Best Of British awards, and scooping plaudits from UKF and DNB Arena, Invicta Audio is...

On Cue: Chrissy

San Francisco’s Chrissy sprints from house, Hi-NRG and EBM into UKG and breakbeat hardcore in his ecstatic On Cue mix, and speaks to Marke Bieschke about reviving rave’s original mission on his Hooversound album, ‘Physical Release’

Does rave need a do-over? Three decades on, some of the movement’s most ardent believers have become its fiercest critics. 
“Our scene has failed to...

Selections: Gene On Earth

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, Gene on Earth spotlights breakbeat trance, bouncing house, “bullfrog techno” and more

Last year, California-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Gene On Earth released the definitive ‘The Sound Of Limo’ comp, a 14-track collection that represented the lush...

We go behind the scenes of Laurence Guy's live show, set-up and performance approach

Church Records regular Laurence Guy's transition from DJ to producer to live performer saw his studio and set-up shift and evolve as he developed his...

Ahead of the midterm elections in the United States, DJ Mag speaks to DJs and producers on the importance of making your vote count on...

"One single vote can change history.” These aren’t the words of a president, historian or politician of any kind, but of Detroit techno hero Robert...

on a ragga tip xl recordings

Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story

‘Ey ey ba day ba wadladie day’ The opening lyrics to SL2’s ‘On A Ragga Tip’ immediately come up when you type its title into...

We talk Boiler Room, Daft Punk and SW4 in this exclusive back-to-back interview between Tottenham’s DJ EZ and legendary US producer Todd Edwards...

Legends is a word that is bandied around so lazily these days that it often loses all meaning, but with Todd Edwards and DJ EZ, the cap well-and-truly fits.