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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...

Recording techniques for artists on any budget revealed by Los Angeles producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, Justin Taylor Phillips, aka Crywolf

One never knows when or where creativity is going to strike. Limiting creation to the studio is confining - you really want to be able...

You've probably seen the word MIDI all over your DAW – in her latest Beginner's Guide column Emma Davies aka E.M.M.A. explores what it is...

DJ Mag heads to the Italian birthplace of Marco Carola and Joseph Capriati to pick up the local thread, with Luigi Madonna and his crew

"For us it was... where everything started from. It was in the middle of mountains, so you have that view from the stage. The first time they did a...

Photo of Oscar #Worldpeace wearing a white jacket and hat

Tottenham rapper Oscar #Worldpeace has always kept it real, unafraid to bare his soul, tackle communal hardships, and speak about the ups and downs of life in his lyrics. He talks to DJ Mag about spreading his music, his North London home, and the people who’ve inspired him most along the way

Oscar #Worldpeace is a long way from home; 10,493 miles to be precise. The Tottenham born-and-raised artist joins DJ Mag on Zoom from Melbourne, Australia...

We talk unreleased tunes & future plans with the Detroit legend...

Derrick May needs little introduction. As one of The Belleville Three, alongside Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, he was instrumental in the birth of Detroit...

Black and white image of a graffiti'd wall that reads "Kitchen Top Floor"

In the midst of the ruinous Thatcher era, Manchester’s Hulme Crescents estate became a haven for squatters, anarchists and acid house ravers, who converged in the hedonistic flat-turned-studio and after-hours club, The Kitchen. Kemi Alemoru speaks to former residents, DJs and familiar guests from the Madchester scene about the lasting impact this space had on the city’s cultural landscape

Welcome to Hulme Crescents, Manchester, an inner-city public housing experiment that, in the ’80s, became an amphitheatre of chaos and creativity. In this estate, acid...

Since its inception in 2016, Dublin Digital Radio has become a vital community outlet for many Irish DJs and producers, and has been of added...

For music fans that feel at odds with the algorithmic nature of streaming platforms, online radio is delivering an alternative source of music discovery and...

They’re touted as a legislative firewall to keep Aussie partygoers safe, but have Australia’s unpopular ‘lockout laws’ irreparably damaged Down Under’s nightlife for good? DJ Mag...

A few weeks ago, a pair of successful Australian DJs wrote a letter. The now-famous note wasn’t to a manager, a booking agent or even...

Two pictures side by side. On the left, the Eldorado Auto Skooter sound system. On the right, some of its bumper cars

An iconic 1970s soundsystem lives on inside a Coney Island attraction. Vivian Host catches up with sound engineer Dan Prosseda about the magical speaker stacks of the Eldorado Auto Skooter bumper cars

Most of New York’s revered club soundsystems of the ‘70s and ‘80s are long gone, as are many of the men who built them. Richard...

DiY sound system

Throughout the ’90s, the DiY Sound System put on countless free events, ran a recording studio and two record labels, and took their hedonistic parties around the world. Here, Harold Heath speaks to co-founder Harry Harrison about his new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The Story of the DiY Sound System, and the collective's trailblazing legacy in the free party movement

The origins of DiY Sound System date back to a mid-‘80s England that was a very different place to how it is in 2022. In...

30. Remix Hotel Logic Tuition


For the fifth year running, the National Hotel on Collins Avenue will be transformed into the 'Remix Hotel' – a...

Billy Nasty shot by Carl Loben

A stalwart of the UK’s dance music community for over 30 years, DJ Billy Nasty was a pioneer of '90s progressive house before launching his techno and electro labels, Tortured and Electrix. A true vinyl devotee, he now runs the Vinyl Curtain record shop in Brighton. Harold Heath meets him in his home town to talk mix CDs, underground dance music history, running labels and the enduring importance of vinyl DJing

It’s fitting that DJ Mag meets acid house original, world-class DJ, UK techno trailblazer, mix-CD pioneer and vinyl-devotee Billy Nasty in his record shop The...

Rony Seikaly on DJing, Ibiza and doing his own thing

DJ Mag Ibiza catches up with the former NBA basketball player-turned-DJ about his love for the White Isle

Former NBA star Rony Seikaly released his debut album, ‘Moonwalk’, via his own Stride Records in May. Seikaly – who retired from professional basketball at...

Since 1999 Fabric has proved itself time and time again to be one of the most cutting-edge and influencial nightclubs in the world. For almost...

It’s 1999 and clubland in Britain is at a critical juncture of the sort it’s arguably yet to experience. DJs have become bonafide celebrities, super-clubs...