“I’m finally home.” Those three words are among the first that the South African DJ and producer Palesa Desiree Shilabje utters when DJ Mag catches...
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The Motor City is by no means short of heralded heroes. Here we acknowledge three of Detroit techno's more underrated talents currently making waves...
The trouble with history is that it changes depending on who tells it. So it is that Detroit techno has three main characters, but a...
Miami's underground venues
We're all aware of the glitz and glamour of South Beach's many venues, but scratch beneath the surface of the Miami scene and you'll find a plethora of underground dens of iniquity at your disposal. Uptown, Downtown, turn the beat around! These are the coolest, off-the-radar spots worth popping into during WMC...
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
Berlin-based Parisian DJ, vocalist and CockTail d'Amore resident Stella Zekri spins a thumping vinyl mix of early house, post disco and boogie for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Ria Hylton about finding her feet in dance music, her Body Language party, and more
The songwriter was best known for his contribution to Rhythm Control's classic 'My House'
Get acquainted with Heléna Star, the London DJ and broadcaster with a passion for music that moves your feet and nourishes your soul
In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, ahead of Dialled In festival, Daytimers’ Gracie T spotlights breakthrough sounds from the new South Asian underground
Jungle Brothers 'I'll House You' – produced by Todd Terry (Idlers, 1988) The JBs essentially added a rap to Todd's early house classic 'Can You...
Todd Terry started DJing around his home city of New York in the mid-'80s. “When I started — around '84, '85 — I was just...
Encompassing parties, a record label and a beloved radio show, Errol and Alex Rita’s Touching Bass has created an open space to celebrate Black music in all its forms, from jazz to jungle and beyond. Alongside a woozy mix exploring the DNA of Touching Bass’ past, present and future by Sammseed, Ria Hylton documents the movement’s ethos and story so far
Leisureware “puts the lairy in Balearic” in his blissed-out, two-hour Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Eoin Murray about “low intervention” DJing and The Occasional Feel-Good party and Soho Radio show
Hessle Audio, the label run by Ben UFO, Pearson Sound and Pangaea, has just reached its 10th anniversary milestone.
Initially bonding over the infinite possibilities of the embryonic dubstep scene in the midnoughties, the trio soon set off on their own tangents. Launching Hessle...
With frenzied breaks, high-speed hardcore and sizzling 160 sonics, FFF takes the Fresh Kicks mix series by storm
In FastTracker 2 — a popular, though now discontinued ‘90s DAW — there was code which automatically took the user to the highest possible bpm...
Vienna-born, Manchester-based salute’s DJ sets and productions shine at the intersection of garage, French house and ‘80s synth styles. Ahead of the release of their star-studded debut album on Ninja Tune, they tell Kamila Rymajdo about their musical upbringing, flying the flag for Black artistry, and their joyful sound that, simply, makes people feel good
Utrecht's CARISTA is on a quest to bring club crowds together with her irresistible, energising DJ sets. Ria Hylton meets her to find out how her United Identities label is elevating new talent in the Netherlands, and how she’s branching into new areas of music.
It's not that Noisia are noisier — or luidruchtiger, in their native lingo — than other Dutch drum & bas acts, but the expert beat scientists are certain...
It's well-publicised that the Dutch are obsessed with house, techno and EDM (and let's not forget the insanity that is hardstyle). Sadly though, one particular...