Approaching the gates of GALA, London’s first full-capacity, outdoor dance music festival since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, a familiar feeling emerges. As muffled...
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GALA, London’s first outdoor dance music festival in over 16 months, took place in Peckham Rye Park last weekend. With exceptional programming and an emphasis...
We take a look back at the news of 2015 through the prism of the international dance music scene. It's been quite a year!
January is a notoriously slow month in clubland — a time when gym memberships take priority over all-nighters and pennies are scraped together. Many top...
The contribution of women throughout the history of electronic music has been huge, but too often undocumented...
By now the history of electronic music and its journey into clubs, concert venues, stadiums and homes worldwide is a well-established narrative. It’s a story...
2500 artists performing across 140 locations...
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has revealed the first wave of artists on the 2017 schedule. Jeff Mills, Danny Tenaglia, Joris Voorn, Nicole Moudaber, and...
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The release is part of Groove Armada's 25th anniversary celebrations
“An immense tragedy”...
A warehouse in Oakland, California, known as the Ghost Ship, was hit by a devastating fire during a party on Friday night (2nd December).
Artists...
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Dekmantel, dBridge, Matrixxman and even the deputy mayor of Paris are behind the venue...
News has been spreading fast that beloved Parisian electronic spot Concrete has been threatened with closure.
The club is regarded as one of Europe's...
Adam Beyer, Pan-Pot, Gorgon City respond...
DJs, promoters and organisers have responded to The BPM Festival shootings, that left four dead and 12 injured when a gunman opened fire at elrow's...
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With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside an On Cue mix packed with HI-NRG anthems and Italo house, Marke Bieschke learns more
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Without bluster or overblown hype, Black Coffee has doggedly worked himself into the position of being not just South Africa’s foremost electronic music artist, but...
Far from the crowds of Ibiza’s resorts and the kaleidoscopic whirl of its clubs, on a tranquil outcrop overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, a man surveys...
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A new crop of charity record labels has sprung up in the UK and France, donating their entire profitshare to worthy causes, and fighting poverty and inequality in...
Despite austerity hitting all but the most affluent, charity giving continues to rise. According to the Charities Aid Foundation’s annualUK Giving Study, British people donated a whopping £10.3bn to charity in 2017...
One year on from our Women In Dance Music issue, we ask the question...
Almost one year ago to the day, DJ Mag published a Women In Dance Music issue. I know, because I edited it. We put New...
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Dance music has a mental health problem. Sirin Kale speaks to artists such as Luciano, Courtesy and Marie Davidson, as well as some PRs and...
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As part of DJ Mag's round-up of all the best in dance music in 2019, and in the 2010s, we decided to spotlight some of...
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Even as pandemic restrictions have lifted, and clubs and festivals have returned, the spectre of coronavirus lingers for many due to the debilitating impact of long Covid. Here, Dhruva Balram speaks to people in the dance music industry about how the effects of long Covid, and a lack of understanding around it, have impacted them, and asks whether it should be recognised as a disability