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Tom Findlay and Andy Cato’s Ibiza is one of endless possibility, forgotten memories and an Interpol-raided ostrich farm. We catch up with the superstylers ahead...
For 30 years, Groove Armada have been coming to Ibiza. The island’s constant state of flux has led them to experience the rise and fall...
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Step aside speedcore, there’s a new sound in town...
Clocking in at 1000bpm, extratone is electronic music’s fastest genre.
In a new, in-depth feature from Bandcamp Daily, writer and regular DJ Mag freelancer Dave...
Bass injected house duo step up
Some days you wake up and just have a blinder — for Dusky that blinder has been pretty much every day for the last year. It’s fair to say that the London duo have — in technical parlance — well-and-truly smashed it. Number #1 iTunes Dance Single of 2012? In the bag with the beyond-ubiquitous 'Flo Jam'. Radio 1 Essential Mix? Done, knocked off with style, and shortlisted for mix of the year. They’ve helped shift the paradigms for dubstep and house, had productions rinsed by everyone from Loefah to Calvin Harris, and killed it in Ibiza at DC-10. Ebullient and still humble, is it any surprise that Dusky producers Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman are loving life right now?
We catch up with Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim
NORMAN Cook is the Brighton-based beat king famed for his hugely popular incarnations as Beats International, Mighty Dub Katz, Pizzaman and, of course, Fatboy Slim....
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After hugely successful residencies in Ibiza, a festival in Croatia, and regular tours around the world, Defected’s latest festival destination is in Malta. Ria Hylton heads to the island to take in the inaugural event
Win tickets for Brighton's Great Escape...
Set up in 2006 as a project dedicated to opening ears to the more progressive end of the indie spectrum, The Great Escape has since...
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In this regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp...
Slovenian hero switches sound
Umek's tech house style is in greater demand in Ibiza than ever. Before what's set to be his biggest season yet we linked with the Slovenian DJ to find out about his shift in sound, the scene in his home city of Ljubljana and what's happening with his label...
With Marc Romboy, Jules Buckley, Max Richter, Carl Craig and more...
At first glance, we’re led to believe that the worlds of classical and electronic music are galaxies apart. But there are more parallels and crossovers...
Retronyms release a new hardware/app combo for creative DJing and Remixing
Retronyms, are the guys who have been pioneering music creation on touch screen interfaces for quite some time, known for bringing pro music and audio production to multitouch platforms they have just released (today in fact) a new hardware/software product combo
No Regular Play's deep, warm and blissy album on Wolf + Lamb
The No Regular Play guys, Greg Paulus and Nicholas DeBruyn, have been playing together for the past 20 years or so — literally, since they...
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Launching this month, the bar will include a music library made up of Bradley Zero's personal vinyl collection
Andy Cato and Tom Findlay's mix is out 20th May...
Seminal UK house duo Groove Armada are the latest artists to mix super successful compilation series, FABRICLIVE.
The long-running mix series of the much-loved UK...
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With Miller Genuine Draft
Our annual Top 100 Clubs poll, powered by Miller Genuine Draft, is a shining example of the diversity of modern nightclub culture. The once ubiquitous...
Drum & bass sound designer readies debut album
Rather than pretending that he used to sneak into Metalheadz nights at the Blue Note in London aged 11, drum & bass sound designer Rockwell...