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Premiere: Byron The Aquarius ‘Creepin With U’

Alabama-based innovator Byron The Aquarius veers from robust club music to sun-drenched soul, R&B and deep house on his debut EP for Low Recordings. Hear the warehouse-ready ‘Creepin’ With U’ below

Byron The Aquarius will make his debut on Low Recordings later this week with a new four-tracker, ‘Love 4 Music’. Have an exclusive first listen...

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Kelela releases 'RAVE:N' remix album featuring Loraine James, Shygirl, DJ Swisha, more: Listen

Spanning 20 tracks, the new digital remix album reimagines the artist's latest album ‘Raven’

Kelela has dropped the ‘RAVE:N’ remix album via Warp Records, featuring an impressive list of producers including TYGAPAW, Shygirl, Loraine James, DJ Swisha, Yaeji, Liv.e...

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Two Susumu Yokota albums as Stevia get first-ever vinyl reissue

The albums serve as an ode to the genre-bending of early '90s Japanese club music

Late Japanese composer, producer and DJ Susumu Yokota's two albums under his Stevia alias are being released on vinyl for the first time. Listen to...

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Funk icon Betty Davis dies, aged 77

RIP to a trailblazing artist

Betty Davis, a pioneer of the late-1960s and 70s funk scene, has died aged 77. According to Rolling Stone, close friend and ethnomusicologist, Danielle Maggio...

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Premiere: Masha Mar ‘Cherry Cherry (ft. Ah-Mer-Ah-Su)’

Serbia-born, LA-based Masha Mar returns to SOS Music with the synth-drenched first offering from her forthcoming EP, ‘Cherry Cherry’

Masha Mar will release her second EP, ‘Cherry Cherry’, next month via SOS Music. Have an exclusive first listen to the title track, featuring Ah-Mer-Ah-Su...

URSULA 1000 CHATS INSECT QUEEN, ESL RECORDS & THE SOUND OF THE '80S

Plus listen to his new tune 'Faded Denim Wash'

Maybe it was having the twenty first century breathing down our collective neck, but late 1990s pop culture was awash in retro-futurism, particularly the kind...

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The ecstasy despite the agony: photographing gay clubbing in ‘90s northern England

Photographer Stuart Linden Rhodes, known mononymously Linden, spent the ‘90s capturing the queer clubbing scene in the north of England on his camera. Now his...

Throughout the 1990s, Stuart Linden Rhodes was a teacher by day and a writer and photographer covering the north’s gay clubbing scene at night. In...

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In search of sunrise: a history of Balearic trance

Ibiza played a central role in spreading a new take on trance around the turn of the millennium — a more soothing vein of the sound that captures the mood of a Mediterranean sunset. As clubs in Ibiza are opening again for the first time since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, DJ Mag dives into the roots of a genre that was inspired and shaped by the island’s unique appeal: Balearic trance

Long before turning into a global clubbing destination, Ibiza appealed to crowds looking for spiritual growth — with those from the hippie movement settling in...

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Fragrances inspired by Kraftwerk, Prince, Alice Coltrane albums released by dublab

The independent LA-based radio station and The Institute for Art and Olfaction ask, "What does music smell like?"

dublab has developed custom fragrances designed to evoke classic albums by Prince, Kraftwerk, Alice Coltrane, Brian Eno, Nina Simone and more. The independent LA-based radio...

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New mix platform, wav.world, launches with payments for DJs and producers

The new subscription-based mix platform asks, "What if we treated music with the value it deserves?" — the first edition is helmed by Fever AM's Mor Elian and Rhyw

A new mix platform wants to "give music the value it deserves" by paying contributing DJs and featured artists. wav.world is a new subscription-based mix...

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Justice share NSFW video for 'Generator': Watch

The unveiling of the visual comes ahead of the release of new album 'Hyperdrama' in April

Justice have shared a video for new song 'Generator'. Watch it below. The NSFW visual, which you can watch below, aims to blur the lines...

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David Guetta remixes Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’: Listen

The superstar DJ puts his own spin on Sophie Ellis-Bextor's viral track

David Guetta has remixed Sophie Ellis-Bextor's ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’. Check it out below. The world's No.1 DJ's remix revisits Ellis-Bextor's most famous and recently...

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Film of Ryuichi Sakamoto's final performances, Opus, to be released this month

The late composer's concert film, directed by his son Neo Sora, lands in UK and Irish cinemas at the end of March

Opus, a film of Ryuichi Sakamoto's final performances, will arrive in cinemas in UK and Ireland at the end of the month. The late revered...

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Premiere: YAZZUS ‘Juiri’s Ultra Combo’

Berlin-based queer night Hoe__mies curate a seventeen-track compilation of global electronic music in support of the relief efforts in Gaza. Listen to Yazzus’ strobing club workout, ‘Juiri’s Ultra Combo’, now

Berlin-based club night and queer platform Hoe__mies are releasing a new V/A compilation dedicated to supporting the relief efforts in Gaza. Hear YAZZUS’ contribution, ‘Juiri’s...

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Ms. Mada joins DJ Mag Miami Pool Party 2024 line-up

She completes the bill alongside previously announced artists ANOTR, AQUTIE, Chloé Caillet, Joseph Capriati, and Louie Vega

Ms. Mada has been announced as the final artist performing at DJ Mag’s 2024 Miami Pool Party. The Filipino-born, Miami-raised artist joins an already stacked...