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In our new column we get the lowdown on some of the world’s biggest DJs and producers' studio essentials...
Shinedoe’s third long-player ‘Illogical Directions’ is out now on Intacto Records, marking a decade of her Intacto imprint. Here are five of her studio essentials...
We meet futurist techno maestro Richie Hawtin for our ADE issue...
Electronic music’s explosion owes a great deal to futurist techno maestro Richie Hawtin. Not only has he made and played some of the most forward-thinking...
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Tech companies, radio stations and labels took away most of the $43 billion generated...
Artists only received 12% of the revenue generated in the music industry in the United States in 2017 according to a new report by Citigroup...
Gear up for Getter’s GNARtillery tour
An abstract herald of underground bass culture, Getter has been taking over stages across the US since 2010, beginning his DJ career at 17. Today...
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Roland’s 909 drum machine is responsible for the rhythm of house and techno, and countless classics of dance and pop. Exactly 35 years after its...
If there’s one instrument that faithfully captures the true spirit and essence of electronic music, it’s the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer: a machine that has...
Los Angeles label giant Dirtybird Records has been one of the leaders of the underground dance scene for the past decade. Created by Claude VonStroke...
With summer's subterranean smash tune ‘Jack’ signed to a major and chart success beckoning, Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, tells us how he’s heading for the...
Pop music has always run from the sublime to the irredeemable. The charts have rotated from gold to grot since the dawn of the Hit Parade, and the model doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. So whilst there are always dark periods when commercial radio is little more than a cemetery of tired ideas, dug up and forced to fandango one more time, every now and then a new generation of musicians kick down the door, reset the rules, and party ‘til the lights come on.
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Ageing or raging?
It’s time for fading '90s producers to stop hyping their own records with snotty attacks on EDM and focus on writing some decent tunes…
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Sly & Lovechild, Mark Lanegan Band, Saint Etienne, Gwenno, and The Orielles all feature
Andrew Weatherall's remixes for Heavenly Recordings have been compiled on a new album, which will land on Friday 28th January.
Comprising two parts — 'Heavenly...
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The mural has been underway since May
A DMX mural has been painted in Yonkers, New York.
The mural of the late rapper — real name Earl Simmons — who passed away...
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dBridge, Aurora Halal and Rian Treanor are also confirmed...
No Bounds Festival has locked LSDXOXO, Courtesy, Slikback and Lanark Artefax in the first wave of names set to play the third edition of the...
She's built a rock-solid unit that's celebrating a decade of electronic music brilliance this year...
It’s the 1st May. ‘May Day’ public holiday in Berlin, traditionally the time when the city transforms from the grey, oppressive bleakness of its...
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After four-plus decades of DJing and with a incredible list of releases — much of it produced with longtime partner Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez as Masters At Work — the pioneering Louie Vega would seem to have little to prove. Yet he’s working harder than ever, with the same energy he had as a young kid coming up in the Bronx. In the run-up to his date at DJ Mag’s Miami Pool Party 2024 at the Sagamore Hotel on March 20th, Vega took some time out of his hectic schedule to talk about how he got to where he is today
Field Marshals: The grass is greener at Global
Global by name and now Global by nature, this year Global Gathering staged ten festivals in locations as far-flung as South Korea and Australia, including...