It’s a hot August morning in Los Angeles, and the sun is beating through the open door of Ross Birchard’s home studio. He smiles and...
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Best of North America Awards 2017
For all its Hollywood glitz and glamour and bottle service bullshit, Los Angeles still lays claim to a thriving underground bass scene today. You can...
Hudson Mohawke is a mystery. The shy Glasgow-born, LA-dwelling producer and DJ has made boundary-breaking music and worked with superstars, but he scarcely does interviews...
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South African-Swiss DJ and producer Nora En Pure has managed to maintain her organic house sound, despite playing some of the biggest commercial venues in...
Shadow Child Emerges from behind Dave Spoon
Pseudonyms have always been prevalent in dance music, but sometimes the new name adopted by an artist for a one-off track resonates so well that...
We watch the band recreate Daft Punk’s catalogue completely live
London-based cover band, Introducing Live, laugh in the face of the impossible — the group perform the albums that others won’t, they play the unplayable...
A match made in heaven
It takes two to tango, and that’s exactly what Serato and Pioneer are doing here. Serato users have even more reasons to be cheerful with...
20 years of Ram, Alive and a six-hour set at Fabric, Andy C is still bringing it
Fresh – or should we say tardy? – from a three and a half week tour that saw him bring 160+bpm beats to the US...
The biggest tunes on the underground this month
Since winning Best Label at the DJ Mag Best of British Awards in 2011, Defected have continued to go from strength to strength. Adroit at raising their finger to detect the prevailing wind of change, they've earned their rep by transforming the stirrings of the underground into mainstream success, pushing the likes of Tensnake to even greater heights and introducing house legends such as MK, Murk and Kevin Saunderson to a new generation of clubbers.
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Gene on Earth spotlights breakbeat trance, bouncing house, “bullfrog techno” and more
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For three decades, Yen Sung has been at the beating heart of Lisbon’s club scene. As a longstanding resident at Lux and its downtown predecessor Frágil, and as a producer of timeless house tracks, she’s rightly earned her legendary in Portuguese dance music. But as April Clare Welsh learns, she’s busier and more energised than she’s ever been. Alongside a thumping On Cue mix of pure dancefloor energy, she shares her story
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Neurodiversity refers to a wide range of neurological conditions including ADHD, autism, dyslexia and Tourette syndrome. After being diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism earlier this year, DJ Mag writer Harold Heath began to wonder: is there a particularly high number of neurodivergent people in the scene? Here, he embarks on a personal journey to try and understand the relationship between neurodiversity and dance music, and its wider relevance within the scene
A chat with the Northern Irish techno king
After making a name as a hard house DJ, with his own show on Radio 1, Fergie became disillusioned with the genre and sought out...
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DJ Harvey conveys the hedonistic spirit of Pikes Ibiza in the ecstatic third edition of Mercury Rising compilation series
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A DJ set from Bonobo and a live show from Jungle are among the many highlights of the Repercussion opening party
Opinion
Is dance music suffocating under a wave of beige productions or are we just jaded? Harold Heath argues that artists need to take more risks...
The kick-drum drops out, reach towards the ceiling, the air is filled with whoops and whistles. Then a long whoosh of white noise simultaneously builds the...