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Saul talks about his new album, collaborations and a hatred of pirates.

Anonymity’s quite the fashion these days. Hand-stamped white labels from big-name producers emerge every week, with press releases proclaiming artists free from the shackles of fame, whose metaphorical masks let them experiment with sounds bereft of preconception. Which is all well and good when you’re knocking out short-run 12”s of faceless techno.

With her contagious effervescence and imaginative foresight, Alison Wonderland is dance music's newest badass on the block. 

 

There is a fine line between trying and doing. Alex Scholler, aka Alison Wonderland, is undoubtedly doing … and on her own terms. Effortlessly cool...

The parties not to miss at ADE 2014

Canals and weed is all you need. Throw in a jammed schedule of the sickest parties — excellently programmed and expertly produced — and you've...

We review Field Day's annual knees up in Victoria Park

As with any festival on the London circuit, Field Day has its detractors. This batch consists of snooty festivalgoers, who lament the mediocre sound quality...

<p>Not quite the new Ibiza, Croatia just keeps on comin'...</p>

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Hideout WHEN? Monday 30th June – Thursday 3rd July WHERE? Zrce Beach, Island of Pag HOW MUCH...

Secret Solstice festival sweeps us across Reykjavík and into Iceland’s wilderness on a groovy trip of unimaginable extremes...

 

“HOLY GOD, IT’S FREEZING!” We aren’t sure who screams that line. Could be us. Most probably is. But regardless of whose mouth utters the...

clubbing with crowds and plants

Emerging technology, BODYHEAT, promises to make clubs more carbon neutral. Sophie Lou Wilson speaks to those behind it, the first club to trial it (SWG3 Glasgow), and others about how it works, as well as its potential and limits

Fifteen minutes’ walk from the site of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, there’s a nightclub. SWG3 is an independent venue that has put on...

More than a year after dancing stopped in Ibiza, the middle of 2021 sees a glimmer of hope. DJ Mag’s man on the White Isle...

For over 30 years, Ibiza has been at the forefront of dance music tourism, but when Covid-19 entered our lives, life on the White Isle...

Paco Osuna: "Ibiza changed my vision of life and opened my mind”

Paco Osuna settles in for summer in Ibiza, helming the second room at Hï every Tuesday. Here, DJ Mag Ibiza catches up with the longstanding DJ about his love for the White Isle and more

Spanish DJ Paco Osuna first came to Ibiza more than 20 years ago, and immediately fell in love with the island. Initially playing at Amnesia...

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Manchester duo Rae & Christian spearheaded the soul/funk-hop scene of the late '90s. Their Grand Central label released great music by Aim (including chill-out classic ‘Cold Water Music’), Riton, Boca 45 and more, not to mention their own superb two albums. 
‘Northern Sulphuric Soul’ — their fantastic debut opus of sunshine soul grooves and dope beats, which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize — and follow-up ‘Sleepwalking’ in 2002 featured guests such as Bobby Womack, Jeru the Damaja, The Pharcyde and the Jungle Brothers.

These are the most exciting amapiano producers right now

Amapiano has become a world-conquering genre since emerging in South Africa over a decade ago, with the sound mutating in recent years to solidify its place as an embedded dance music culture. Here, Shiba Melissa Mazaza asks: who are the South African artists carrying the torch for amapiano right now?
 

Amapiano (also known as ipiano or ’piano) began in the streets of Gauteng, South Africa, in the early 2010s. The now world-conquering sound is a...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From hammering techno to trippy deep house, here's April 2019's list of...

LTJ Bukem

Mixing elements of jazz and ambient with drum & bass, LTJ Bukem’s now-classic 1996 release via Good Looking Records was a statement of intent, and remains one of the genre's most fulfilling and impactful releases to this day 

For many music fans in the 1990s, their immersion into jungle and drum & bass started not with Goldie’s celebrated ‘Timeless’ or Roni Size /...

Little Dragon's unique mix of R&B and electronics has captivated many...

Little Dragon married young, you might say. It was at high school, still in their teens, that the Gothenburg four-piece met, a good decade before...

Thievery Corporation return with ‘Saudade,’ an ode to music's ability to wring beauty from sadness...

Thievery Corporation resides on opposite sides of the North American continent. The duo’s Eric Hilton remains in its original home of Washington DC while the...