Founded in 2014, Touching Bass overlapped with the peerless Plastic People for about a year before the latter was forced to close. It was enough...
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Errol, Alex Rita and Sammseed of Touching Bass curate a collection of deep, jazzy grooves for hazy days and cosmic club nights, celebrating the London movement’s soul and versatility
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FOR FANS OF: Mike Servito, Horse Meat Disco, Eli Escobar
“I can't speak for everyone, but here I see our queer community becoming stronger and more radical in the face of this harrowing moment in...
Morgan Geist returns to his original house music inspiration.
Best known as one half of nu disco/deep house duo Metro Area, Morgan Geist's new moniker — Storm Queen — is about to have a bona-fide chart hit with the previously released 'Look Right Through'. The track has had a long gestation period: produced with singer Damon C. Scott, who shot to prominence for being filmed singing on the NYC subway, it was signed to Defected at the end of last year and the MK dub became an anthem in Ibiza and at many festivals over the summer just gone.
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The Tidy Boys and their label Tidy Trax epitomised the early ‘00s hard house scene, at one point selling a million records a year. As...
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Dominican-American DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist Toribio records a freewheeling mix of jazzy house, soulful edits and percussive heaters from New York’s Public Records for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Nisa Khan about illuminating Latin music’s legacy, and channelling his church upbringing's communal energy in his sets
Whether you call their music Dirty Dutch, the Dutch Sound or just Dutch house, the main players from Holland's house scene such as Afrojack, Chuckie...
The Dutch, in case you hadn't noticed, are taking over. Following years in which the country's trance DJs have occupied the upper echelons of DJmag's...
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Digital Holdings is the Bermondsey studios that's had artists including Headie One, Harlem Spartans, Zone 2, Carns Hill and SL all record music within its...
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Italo disco is everywhere again. But what does Italo even mean today, and is it at risk of being diluted into a catch-all term for anything with an '80s disco sparkle? Joe Roberts dives into the genre's history, and chats to some of its new devotees and longstanding champions about its ever-evolving sound
Bass aficionado Freq Nasty tastes the delights of Goa's fifth Sunburn Festival
What do Pete Tong and thread-finned salmon have in common? They both make a ton of cash for local fishermen in the Indian seaside state...
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The new Arrivals area will be built and presented by an entirely South Asian team
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This month, business owner, textile artist, designer and painter, Sara, speaks with DJ Mag about her creative company Sarangua Embroidery
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Brazilian DJ and producer ANNA's techno sound marries kinetic grooves with a wealth of emotion. With gigs all over the map and some of the most...
As someone who’s been DJing since she was 14 years old, it’s rare that Brazilian techno star ANNA is lost for musical inspiration. But DJ...
The Crosstown Rebels man opens up about his path to dancefloor domination, rising from the figurative dead, his belief in the Crosstown “family”, the Rebel...
Damian Lazarus is the leader of Crosstown Rebels — not just a label, but a globe-trotting party and network of like minded artists. Celebrating 10 fiercely independent years of always innovative house and techno in 2013, the Lazarus man opens up about his path to dancefloor domination
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In this first instalment of Spice Rack, a new bi-monthly column on underground music from South Asia and its diaspora, Dhruva Balram looks at the...
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At the centre of Daft Punk’s world-beating debut album lay a tribute to the architects of dance music, titled ‘Teachers’. With the help of Neil...