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Dance music has a mental health problem. Sirin Kale speaks to artists such as Luciano, Courtesy and Marie Davidson, as well as some PRs and...

March 2017. Luciano, real name Lucien Nicolet, is in Frankfurt airport, and he’s bent double with heart palpitations. He knows something isn’t right: things are...

The #WeMakeEvents march coincides with a country-wide ‘Red Alert’ day where venues will light up in unison

Music industry workers marched in Manchester today (11th August), calling on the government to provide for employees in the touring and festival events sectors.

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Acid house as it happened

From car park raves to the first acid nights at Future and Shoom

A new photobook capturing the rise of the UK rave scene has been published by IDEA. Compiled by photographer and journalist Dave Swindells, Acid House...

Pirate Studios offers free studio spaces for displaced Ukrainian artists in UK, Berlin and Hamburg

"We know it’s only a small gesture but one we hope will bring some joy to Ukrainian artists"

Pirate Studios wants to support Ukrainian artists in the UK and Germany by granting them free access to their practice and production facilities. Successful applicants...

on a ragga tip xl recordings

Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story

‘Ey ey ba day ba wadladie day’ The opening lyrics to SL2’s ‘On A Ragga Tip’ immediately come up when you type its title into...

Black Midi, Slowthai and Idles are all in the running

The shortlist of albums for this year's prestigious Mercury music prize album has been revealed.

The winner of the Mercury prize, now in its 28th...

Honouring a bonafide UK dance music legend... 

The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation (MIMF) has been set up in Manchester "to support and nurture talent". 

The initiative will honour Marcus Kaye, AKA Marcus Intalex...

World's first bioplastic record unveiled by Music Declares Emergency

Including tracks by Bicep and others, people can get their hands on one of 20 copies via a Crowdfunder prize draw

UK environmental pressure group Music Declares Emergency has unveiled the world's first plant-based, bioplastic record. The records, which have been produced in a very limited...

Featuring Trevor Nelson, Rodney P, Toddla T and many more...

Cult clothing brand Farah partnered with the legendary Rampage crew on their stage at Notting Hill Carnival over the weekend, to host a slew of...

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The fallout from Brexit and a supply chain crisis are among key concerns

Industry experts have warned that the UK's summer festival season is under threat from a "perfect storm" of issues. The CEO of the UK's leading...

The Loop details new MDMA pills in UK circulation as part of harm reduction initiative

The average strength of pills tested at last weekend's Parklife festival was 1.5 times that of the typical tablet

UK harm reduction and drug-testing charity The Loop has shared its findings from Manchester's Parklife festival, which took place this past weekend. In a Twitter...

For our 2018 Best Of British awards, DJ Mag teamed up with the Young Urban Arts Foundation charity, which aims to make a positive change to the lives of...

“I can’t go to my other studio ’cause I’ll get shanked,” says Mike, who proves to us that he can sing Afro-swing melodies as well as he raps...

Best known among dance music fans for collaborating with Daft Punk on ‘Discovery’s ‘One More Time’ and ‘Too Long’, Romanthony's ‘Romanworld’ found the US producer's...

On the face of it, ‘Romanworld’ looks like a pretty conventional electronic music album. Released in 1996 by UK indie Azuli, it rounds up 12...

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40 free “Music Tech Kits” will be made available to Black women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people in the UK

Saffron, the Bristol-based not-for-profit organisation tackling gender imbalance in the music tech industry, is launching a new zine written by and about Black women, non-binary...

Magika MC’d for the likes of Carl Cox, Grooverider, Andy C and more

Crowdfunding is under way for a new book which will look back at the history of the '90s UK rave scene through the lens of...