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A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

Danger Mouse & Black Thought: cheating the system

Although it features guests like A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels and Raekwon, the best moments on Danger Mouse and The Roots legend Black Thought's new LP are in its filmic rhymes, woozy psychedelic loops, soul snippets and jazz and blues rhythms. Here, Ben Murphy speaks to them about their long-awaited collaboration

Hip-hop is ingrained in the work of American musician and producer Danger Mouse. Though he’s made records with Beck, Karen O, Gorillaz, Michael Kiwanuka, Adele...

Baltimore's Dukeyman has passed away

The news was first shared on social media over the weekend

Dukeyman, the pioneering Baltimore-born producer, club DJ and sound engineer born Ronald Hall, has died. The news was confirmed on Saturday (18th February) in a...

Sixty hype minutes from the Radio 1Xtra star...

 

Jamz Supernova takes a step away from her BBC Radio 1Xtra shows to drop a club-ready Fresh Kicks mix!

Discovered by the BBC after...

Kings of the road

With the end of an era that came with the announcement that Technics were no longer making their undisputed industry standard turntables, the SL1200 and SL1210, a death knell rang. Finally, after so many years, all DJs have come to the realisation that vinyl is dead, right?

Girls Don't Sync release debut edits EP, '4x4': Listen

The release sees them pull from different “influences, inspirations and cultures”

Girls Don’t Sync have released a collection of edits. Featuring four tracks, the ‘4x4’ EP pulls from different “influences, inspirations and cultures” according to the...

The new update to the TR8 lets you load your own samples...

Roland have released a new drum machine, the TR8S. An update to their popular hardware, they’ve added some extra performance features including an SD card...

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Former LFO man talks about the sad passing of Mark Bell

The dance music world was saddened a few weeks ago by the news that Mark Bell from LFO had passed away.

Mark was a well-liked...

The festival that keeps on giving, errr, failing...

Fyre Festival — the well-documented music festival disaster from 2017 that left paying festivalgoers stranded on a private island in the Bahamas — is now...

Tiga, DJ Hell, Boy George, Danny Howells and Soulwax talk about Bowie's impact...

It was Bowie’s ability to experiment, trend-spot, paint lyrical images and create new personas — chameleon-like — in the '70s that gave him such a cult following.

Tiga, DJ Hell, Soulwax, Boy George and Danny Howells on David Bowie's influence on electronic music


David Bowie's back with a new album at the age of 66 — and he's never been more inspirational. A musical and cultural icon, it's his immense influence on dance and electronic music that's been his greatest contribution. DJ Mag talks to some of the biggest Bowie fans in dance and pop to find out why

Born in Jamaica around half a century ago, dancehall music has found fans, artists and chart-topping success all around the globe in the decades since...

Dancehall music has been the driving force in my career. As a DJ, I’ve played most if not all genres of music on radio and...

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We catch up with the legendary DJ before his stint at Pikes Ibiza to talk bright coloured speedos and Ibiza anthems...

DJ Harvey is back at Pikes Hotel this season with the third round of his popular residency, Mercury Rising. He’s also taken on a new...