“THE PIRATES were the only way you could get to hear the jungle stuff,” says Mike Paradinas, aka µ-Ziq, reflecting on the mix of influences...
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Whatever you make of it, there's no party experience in the world like Miami's WMC week. Like cramming a whole Ibiza season into one week-long...
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DJ Mag spends an action-packed weekend with Len Faki...
“There he is – Len Faki! It's time to go to the stage!” exclaims one of the harried stage managers around me. It's a beautiful...
UK producer Will Holland shot to fame as Quantic with a blend of lush electronic beats and fiery Afrobeat rhythms. Then a trip to Colombia...
After years making live funk, reggae and cumbia influenced by his experience there, he's returned to the Quantic moniker and to the world of electronic...
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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...
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FROM: LA
FOR FANS OF: Masha, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Hunee
“I NEVER really set out to be a DJ,” says LA-born, Berlin-based selector Alison Swing, “But I became really obsessed with records, and annoyed all...
Night Time Industries Association’s Alan Miller endorses London Mayor’s suggestion of a clubbing representative in open letter.
If 2014 felt like an annus mirabilis for UK’s clubbing scene, than 2015 might be a year marked by the tentative beginnings of some positive...
Plugin Boutique's easy to use, four-oscillator subtractive synthesizer...
MANUFACTURER – DAVIDE CARBONE
PLUGIN – CARBON ELECTRA
FORMAT – MAC/PC NATIVE
PRICE – £59
Plugin Boutique's latest offering comes in the form of Carbon...
Bootshaus has its stamp on the German city's club scene...
Once called Warehouse, Cologne's most famous techno club Bootshaus emerged a decade ago off the back of the Loonyland party, a bass/techno/electro rave run by...
Rave pixie returns with new signature sound
Rave pixie Adamski is back with a new sound and a new club-night – which he has dubbed Neo-Waltz. His new sound is electronic dance music in ¾ time – a time signature that has re-energised him over the past couple of years, he tells DJ Mag, 22 years after his seminal rave track 'Killer' topped the charts all around the world.
Electro pop misfits A.Human are taking over...
The highly-evolved rhythms and synth-infused electro beats of A.Human represent the ultimate marriage between man and machine. Led by arch replicant Dave Human, their insouciant...
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With sizzling electro, crunching breakbreats, frenzied footwork and much more in between, Nikki Nair records a jaw dropping productions mix for the Recognise series, and...
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Released in 1997, μ-Ziq’s ‘Lunatic Harness’ mixed jungle and out-there electronica in a way few had heard before. Here, Mike Paradinas talks to Ben Murphy about the influences that went into creating this genre-meshing gem, and his new album 'Magic Pony Ride'
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.
DJ Mag meets Róisín Murphy on the brink of her new LP, 'Hairless Toys'...
Róisín Murphy is the ultimate career woman. From teenage runaway to cult sensation, the mother of two has managed to truly have it all, thanks to...