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Get To Know: Elle Shimada

Get acquainted with Elle Shimada, the Tokyo-born, Melbourne-based artist exploring the meaning of home with luminous electronic beats and shimmering vocals

For Elle Shimada, the concept of home is ever-changing; it is the current which flows through her debut album, ‘Home ≠ Location’, released on Australian...

Nia Archives Fresh Kicks mix

Jungle and drum & bass’ breakout star Nia Archives demonstrates her electrifying sound for the Fresh Kicks mix series, and chats to Ria Hylton about her new EP, making “pres and afters” music, and inspiring young Black women to come to the rave

The lilting toplines and lo-fi-inflected sheen in Nia Archives’ ‘Headz Gone West’ began making waves in the Spring of 2020. The debut EP, which lasted...

We pick out the crème de la crème of the fabric and FABRICLIVE series...

fabric’s license being revoked by Islington Council in the early hours of this morning was devastating news for the dance music community, leaving a giant...

It's a massive thumbs-up for our new-look Tech Awards at this year's BPM show at Donington Park

Our new-look Tech Awards at this year's BPM show were an instant hit with curious tech-heads, manufacturers and our expert panel of judges as top...

For their second album, Hamburg's disco-sampling duo Session Victim decamped to San Francisco and discovered a new way of working with analogue synths, drum machines...

It's great dance music is so big now that your mum hums Disclosure. What isn't so great is that because dance music is so popular...

Behringer’s new NOX 404 Mixer delivers plenty of thrills, but at low prices

NOX is a new range of mixers from Behringer, boasting loads of functions to keep many a DJ happy. But unlike some of the heavyweight...

NAFF presents Naïve, Terminal V and Bristol's Simple Things top this month's heady list... 

 

It has been a month of difficult decisions for many. Not least the DJ Mag team, who had to try and figure out how...

On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...

 

Lakker’s ‘Época’ is painfully current. Six months after its release on R&S, its dystopian atmosphere, ferocious rhythms and foreboding melodies feel like an increasingly...

Australian music journalist Andrew Wowk shares the story behind the New South Wales government’s recent festival crackdown, and explains why music venues are currently in the firing...

It's been five years since the New South Wales government, under the leadership of Barry O’Farrell, introduced the controversial lockout laws. These laws were a...

Nastia talks Ibiza, BURN residency and what it really takes to make it as an international touring DJ...

Nastia's journey began in the Ukraine where she was born into a “normal” family, with no musical education. Fast forward to 2018 and she’s one...

Akala's Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire is a fiercely honest appraisal of growing up poor and mixed race in broken Britain...

MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of...

The youth vote could make all the difference in a close-run campaign...

DJs are urging young people to vote in the UK election, which takes place this Thursday 8th June.

In recent times, more than half of...

A tribute to the life of NYC nightlife king, Rob Fernandez

Photo:Cheyenne Bosco

I can probably tell you a thousand stories about Rob Fernandez. From anecdotes of our youth in the New York City club scene...

High-bpm video games takeover

Electronic based music with video games – a match made in audio-visual heaven. Those addicting bass lines, synths synergized with rapid kick drums, and fluctuating...

Gelendzhik, Russia-based DNO Records signee Kercha records an hour of deep, atmospheric dubstep for the Fresh Kicks mix series