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Matrix & Futurebound, Dillinja, Krust and more join duo...
Fabio and Grooverider are set to play a huge headline show at Electric Brixton next month as part of their 25 Years of Drum &...
Drum & bass pioneer plays us his most inspiring cuts
Creating balance is something that LA-based drum & bass pioneer Photek (Rupert Parkes) is particularly good at. Famous for his sonic sketches and deep musical journeys through d&b, ambient cascades, house music and beyond, his newest, and hotly-anticipated artist album, 'Ku:Palm' dips from lush dancefloor material to super deep headphone listening.
The songs that speak to the vinyl-loving purist’s heart
After his colossal ‘Hanns Trippy’ smashed Ibiza’s Do Not Sleep parties all summer, why shouldn’t the song’s architect and party’s...
Surprising collab of the month
There are some collaborations you never really expect. And from these unholy unions, there are many that are simply awful. So when we saw the...
Version 2 of their popular djay app
Algorridim have taken their hugely successful djay app to the next level to ensure that it stays at the forefront of tablet and mobile phone DJing with a fantastic new user interface as well as some amazing new features and effects
Horovitz submitted some questionable choices
Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock has trolled Rolling Stone with his contribution to their 500 Greatest Albums poll.
Last week, Rolling Stone published their updated 500 Greatest...
From: Exeter, Devon
For fans of: Swindle, LV, J Dilla
Three tunes: ‘State of Flow’, ‘First Place Loser’, ‘Whiteboard Jungle’
“I love a tracky banger as much as the next person, but the older I get, the more I feel that music has to have some heart...
For their second album, Hamburg's disco-sampling duo Session Victim decamped to San Francisco and discovered a new way of working with analogue synths, drum machines...
It's great dance music is so big now that your mum hums Disclosure. What isn't so great is that because dance music is so popular...
Alix Perez
The title of Alix Perez’s debut album, ‘1984’ (out now on Shogun Audio) might suggest nightmarish Orwellian views of an authoritarian dystopia, but with the...
Five others rushed to the hospital
As beats pounded through the systems of 16,000 people at the Sydney Olympic Park on the 7th of February, tragedy struck at A State of...
From the New Jersey underground to a global sound
As New Jersey house music continues to undergo a resurgence in the UK, a new alternative manifestation of the sound is rapidly becoming a sensation...
The votes are in, now it's time for the serious business of the awards party. This year it's at Fabric in London.
Voting has closed, the analysis is complete and the results are under lock and key!
Now it's time to celebrate - with the biggest party...
MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum & bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...
“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.
Can't Live Without his Roland TR-808
"Do you remember the banging rap beats of L.L. Cool J's 'I Need Love', the artificial sounding cowbell of Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With...
