We may not necessarily thank them for it – they probably wouldn’t thank themselves for it – but Daft Punk undoubtedly helped to lay the...
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EDM is a genre that swept the global club and festival scene - particularly in the U.S. - in the late 2000s, riding on a...
His anthemic tracks for Innervisions, Life and Death and his own BOSO label dominated club sets in 2014, and even made the UK Top 10...
“I'm a straight guy,” says Ten Walls, aka Lithuanian producer Marijus Adomaitis, also known as Mario Basanov, as he fixes his gaze directly across the...
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Having become a staple of the Planet Mu roster, Jlin’s experimental sonics have seen her captivate club-goers and festival crowds around the globe. Now the US...
"I’m sorry that this is rambled as shit, I’m in the middle of running around and getting ready to go to Whole Foods for my...
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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...
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The drum & bass pioneer talks us through ten tracks on his new ‘Drum & Bass Life’ comp
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Jonny Trunk has been collaborating on a series of graphic design-led books with FUEL publishing for almost 20 years. The latest — titled Audio Erotica — sees the London-based writer, broadcaster, DJ, and Trunk Records label boss collate some of strangest and most significant period hi-fi brochures of the last 75 years. We spoke to Trunk to find out more about these hard-to-find vintage brochures
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Avicii’s death last year shocked the dance community and laid bare the serious problems surrounding mental health in the music industry. Now, his father Klas has set up...
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Caught between the demands of being an internationally-renowned performer and his desire for a quiet life, Australian producer Flume found balance upon returning to his homeland. Amongst nature, and with a restored sense of wellbeing, he completed his most ambitious album to date, 'Palaces'. Megan Venzin learns its story
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On his upcoming 25-track opus ‘Ancestorz’ — which he describes as his life's work — long-serving jungle soldier Congo Natty unites many voices from across the diaspora, joining dots through the history of Black music and celebrating the new jungle generation. In a series of in-depth interviews for DJ Mag, he talks to Dave Jenkins about love, revolution, unity, and reclaiming his place in the history books
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From her first release as Octo Octa in 2011, there’s always been an element of rapturous freedom inherent to Maya Bouldry-Morrison’s music. But since coming out as a trans woman and meeting her life/work partner Eris Drew, that feeling is rendered in brighter shades than ever. Taking time out from a European tour, Bouldry-Morrison details her road to house music happiness
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Released 20 years ago, Basement Jaxx's 'Rooty' is a paean to the adaptable power of house music, a ferocious mixture of musical styles kept in...
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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 Bandcamp collections...
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After the UK Government delayed the easing of lockdown earlier this month, many clubs were left in financial ruin. Even ahead of the new proposed...
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Soaring ascents, the kind that can take an artist from obscurity to stardom in what seems to be the blink of an eye, don’t occur often, in dance music or elsewhere – those who are lucky enough to have that experience often disappear just as quickly. But there’s little chance of a quick fade for South Africa’s Palesa Desiree Shilabje, the DJ and producer known to the world as DESIREE, who in just a few short years has proved to be one of the international festival circuit’s most exciting new stars. Here, Bruce Tantum hears her story, and about how her evolution through music has been as organic as they come
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CamelPhat are stepping up to the big stage this season as they bring their Ibiza residency to Ushuaïa. DJ Mag Ibiza caught up with Dave Whelan from the duo