It’s Sunday afternoon, 16th March 2008, and the dancefloor of Turnmills is packed with dancers in varying states of undress. Watching over them, grinning maniacally...
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Recognise is DJ Mag’s monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak to...
Determination and defiance burst from every beat of Lag’s output. As a producer, DJ and promoter, the Serbian upstart has become a vital fixture in...
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The fierce LGBTQ+ party Trade was the UK’s first legal after-hours club event, opening at 3am and closing at 9am. It laid the groundwork for a new on-and-on party culture, while its sexual and gender diversity was a forerunner for today’s queer club scene. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, and prepares for its 24-hour birthday party at Egg London, Joe Roberts speaks to some of its regular DJs, designers and founder Laurence Malice about Trade's boundary-breaking legacy
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This year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is set to be one of the biggest to date. Bringing the global electronic music scene together in Amsterdam...
UK duo Dusky are this month's DJ Mag cover stars...
“There’s definitely a stigma attached to progressive house but someone like Sasha is one of the most influential DJs ever,” Nick states. “A lot of...
It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...
“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...
From savng his pennies as a teenager in Germany to becoming Berlin's star of techno and soul, Fritz Kalkbrenner opens up about his plight...
“I’d work from six in the morning until 10 in the evening, in February, up to your waist in cold water in those rubber...
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With the second summer of love’s thirtieth anniversary fast approaching, it’s perhaps no surprise to learn that some of electronic music’s early groups are reaching...
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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...
Beardyman is turning music making into a sport with his One Album An Hour show...
He's a funny sort of bloke, is Beardyman. Quite literally; a career founded on quick wit, and what he describes as the “inherently silly” art...
Vinyl may be back, but is the picture really so rosy for records?
I’m sure you’ve heard the great news — vinyl is back, baby: back on the shelves, back in our collective conscious, back in the clubs. Everyone and their mother’s brother is now walking around like the cat who's got the cream, because they are true collectors, true music heads, true audiophiles and their addiction to black crack has finally been vindicated.
Female:pressure brought feminism and floor-fillers to Tresor...
As we ready ourselves for a night of techno at Berlin’s Tresor with international female collective female:pressure, halfway ‘round the world, known misogynist Donald Trump...
Kompakt boss Michael Mayer dishes to DJ MAG USA.
Kompakt has done it again. A decade and a half after its first ‘TOTAL’ compilation hit record store shelves in 1999, the Cologne, Germany based...
Inferno & Hotbox resident Venice Calypso makes his debut on newly-launched label Four On Four.
Sebastian Bartz is on a mission to change the capital’s nightlife for the better. Early this year, he launched a new night, Inferno, at Dalston...
In this regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their Bandcamp crates and share the contents of their digital...
“The foundation of Dirty Dutch was always about embracing different genres of music, I mean, I’m built that way.” Dutch DJ/producer Chuckie is always one...
Chuckie is a man of exacting standards and surprising sentiments. Arguably the original pioneer of the Dutch house movement, Clyde Sergio Narain has made...