If anyone is going to be searingly candid about real life in the music business, it's Sepehr Alimagham Tabari. With his four-year-old label Shaytoon Records...
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Do SenDo Sennheiser’s new pro DJ headphones, the HD8 DJs, deliver the wow factor?
Sennheiser have been at the top of the heap when it comes to DJ headphones for over 25 years. Their HD25s have won many awards...
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Despite his history — a resident at Rex Club since '97, the boss of Bass Culture and a producer of the deep house elite in...
The DJmag Tech crew check out Stanton’s new four-channel rack-mount mixer, and find little to complain about...
We have been most impressed with Stanton’s mixers of late. Mixers like the M.207 have proved that Stanton understands the needs of DJs and can...
Stalking Through The Shadows - Ninja Tune: 20 years young and fresher than ever
“It’s amazing, blimey, gosh, insert amazement, shock and awe!” smiles Ninja Tune’s Jonathan More, on the news that the imprint has nabbed the public vote...
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With his Shaytoon Records label, Sepehr has built a platform for underground techno and electronic music from the Iranian diaspora. But the versatile New York-based producer and DJ fights oversimplified categorisations and pigeonholing at every turn, extracting influence from obscure ‘90s rave records as much as Persian mythology. Alongside a 90-minute On Cue mix demonstrating this sound, he tells Marke Bieschke about his Flower Storm project with Kasra V, the influence of Silent Servant, and his grunge-influenced new band
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The Crystal Method are one of the United States’ longest-standing dance music outfits, with a career that spans over two decades, thousands of gigs and...
On the north side of downtown Los Angeles, under the Broadway Bridge, a parking lot heaves with the breakbeats of Scott Kirkland of The Crystal...
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Though arguably most prominent in the ’90s, free parties and illegal raves have never gone away. Despite the increased surveillance from authorities, passionate DJs and sound systems continue to throw events in a similar way that they always have, looking to create a sense of community and an alternative to the commodified dance mainstream. Dave Jenkins heads to a free party, and speaks to some of the illegal rave scene’s advocates about why they keep the fire burning
Creating the movement
"We don't want to create a brand. We want to create a movement."
So said Dave Vincent, owner of the multi-venue clubbing collective Sankeys as...
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"A slice of shimmery Balearic-inspired Sueño euphoric house"
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WMC 2010 shapes up
Forget your token gym membership this New Year and start saving instead for 2010's Miami Winter Music Conference. Because there's nothing to motivate shedding that...
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Online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress have been asked to stop promoting the stores
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The Minimal Wave boss digs deep to pick 10 industrial, post-punk and new wave cuts that mean the most to her...
Though best known for her label Minimal Wave, founded in 2005, and specialising in rare synth wave from the ‘80s, it's surprising that New Yorker...