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The biggest tunes from the largest annual international conference and festival for electronic music...
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) took place last week between Wednesday 18th and Sunday 22nd October.
The largest annual international conference and festival for electronic music...
Tech giant introduce new KUVO music recognition system to the world...
Pioneer are tackling an area of dance music culture that has often been ignored with their new KUVO system.
KUVO is many things to many...
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As part of our end of year and end of decade coverage, we've written about our favourite albums, tracks and compilations. Here, DJ Mag staff...
Glass Table joins Found Series. Prizes to be won!
If there was an industry prize for the highest number of underground dance labels launched in the space of a year, Hypercolour bosses Alex Jones...
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LUXE and Angel D’lite deliver two blissed-out rave tracks on the Goddezz label, accompanied by a raft of ravey remixes
We count the ways in which the Purple One influenced electronic music over the years
Prince, who died yesterday at his Paisley Park Estate in Minnesota, left a huge mark on electronic music in his own charismatic way. He was...
Skream 'Let's Get Ravey Mix' Of La Roux 'In For The Kill' Killer Instinct: Hands-in-the-air anthem slays dancefloors
In 2009, nothing short of Gordon Brown appointing Simon Cowell to advise the government on financial policy could have captured the country's mood more. Only...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
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Is wealth and privilege damaging British dance music, and if so, what should we do about it?
WORDS: Matt AnnissPICS: Nicola Nodland & Jillian Edelstein
Since acid house swept the UK 30 years ago and united a generation, British dance has proudly proclaimed its egalitarian credentials. Many believe that the loved up, misty-eyed utopianism...
We take a peek at the studio set-up of 'G-house' dudes Amine Edge & DANCE...
French production duo Amine Edge & DANCE coined the phrase “G house” to describe their low-slung, tough and funked-up take on dance music. Initially drawing...
We pick out 10 of the best books inspired by the early days of acid house
“Those were good days in Edinburgh, in 1990,” says author and screenwriter Trevor Miller, who wrote the acid house culture’s first novel, published in...
Disco Sucks and the birth of house music
Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...
The Belleville Three
Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...
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The new plant will be equipped with eight presses from Nashville's Record Pressing Machines
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Manufacturing delays and other issues continue to put a strain on small and independent labels. Taiwanese press plant Mobineko has unveiled a new pressing machine specifically for short runs, aiming to reduce the global bottleneck for vinyl production. Declan McGlynn speaks to Josh Doherty about the problems facing vinyl today, how the new machine works and what impact it could have on the future of vinyl