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Don't get DJ Mag wrong, there's been a long tradition of the remix as a credibility boost in the music industry. Back in the day, from the late '80s and the first crossover of house music onwards, dire popstrels of the ilk of Simply Red and the Spice Girls (or rather their record companies) would be queuing up for a taste of authentic dance flavour, getting cool names to remix their tracks in order to boost sales of 12”s.

Remember a time when Bristol wasn’t part of the Holy Grail with London and Berlin as a triumvirate of electronic cool? No, us neither, but that was the case around seven years ago, with the glowing embers of a once great d&b scene the only thing to really be keeping the city on the map at all.

As one half of Basic Channel, Mark Ernestus has one of the most influential back catalogues in electronic music. And just as Basic Channel releases were as eagerly anticipated as Santa dropping down the chimney with a sack of white labels for the techno cognoscenti during the 1990s, so Ernestus’ rare DJ appearances are almost as mythical an event. Or to put it another way, if you were to book him, you probably wouldn’t stick him in a back bar at the end of the night.

Did Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus ‘discover’ America 500-odd years ago? No! He may have been one of the first white men to open up the...

When the iPad 2 launched, a ripple of excitement ran through the music-making community.  Not only because the successor to Cupertino’s tablet continued to prove...

With a Radio One show, club night and label, Sunday Best, and festivals Camp Bestival and Bestival (three times winner of the Best Medium Festival...

HOLD YOUR HORSES, STOP THE PRESS: THIS IS THE BIG ONE! At 2009's Miami Winter Music Conference, taking place from 24th - 28th March, DJmag...

Voting has now begun for the DJmag Top 100 DJs 2008 – the world's best guide to the hottest DJs on the face of the...

It's gonna be one of the greatest years yet for dance music festivals with some of the world's biggest live acts and DJs converging on...

Arguably Ibiza's most infamous party, Circo Loco's debauched Monday carnival has made true underground legends out of residents like Cirillo, Tania Vulcano and Loco Dice...

As resident DJ of one of the world's most forward-thinking electronic music clubs – Fabric – you'd have thought that Craig Richards would be at...

Howie B has often found himself at the frontier. Whether it's been at the Africa Centre as Soul II Soul carved itself its place in...

Down grimy Curtain Road, there's a massive queue leading up to a dingy little door bookended by two huge bouncers. This is Plastic People, the...