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Premiere: DJ IC, DJ Jim Mastershine & Idd Aziz ‘Meremeta (Echo Deep Dub Mix)’

Johannesburg's Echo Deep crafts a rolling, percussive remix of the forthcoming Afro house cut ‘Meremeta’

DJ IC, DJ Jim Mastershine and Idd Aziz will release their new collaborative single, ‘Meremeta’, this month via Sneja Recordings alongside a collection of remixes...

Violet announces new album and poetry book, 'Transparências', on Rádio Quântica

The free, 10-track album is inspired by the works of composers such as Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos

Violet has revealed details of her forthcoming third album, 'Transparencias'. Stream three tracks from the album below. The Lisbon-based DJ and producer will digitally release...

DJ Mag China Awards 2022 winners announced

A global celebration of China’s electronic music scene

The winners from the second edition of the DJ Mag China Awards have been announced. You can see the full breakdown by category below. Following...

plugin subscriptions

As subscription models have begun to make their way into our DAWs, we look at the three different models for using plugins — outright ownership, continual rent, and rent-to-own. Here, Declan McGlynn asks: are subscription models better for producers? And are we heading towards an even heavier onslaught of abundance over efficiency? 

Subscriptions are everywhere, whether we like them or not. In fact, a report ominously titled The End of Ownership in 2020 said that 78% of...

Illegal rave Cornwall

The gathering was organised to celebrate the 30th anniversary of notorious UK free party Castlemorton

Thousands of people travelled from all over the UK last weekend for an illegal rave in an old airfield that lasted three days. According to...

Dave Smith

He designed the first-ever programmable poly synth the Prophet-5 and co-invented MIDI

Dave Smith, founder of Sequential Instruments, which created the Prophet-5 among other influential synths, and the co-inventor of the MIDI protocol still in use today...

Rising Nowegian duo drop some cosmic disco...

Atella blend synth-heavy disco, bubbling house and dreamy techno for an totally cosmic edition of our Fresh Kicks mix series.

The Norwegian duo first caught...

Photo of a large crowd of people protesting against the Criminal Justice Bill

1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” — in law. Despite widespread demonstrations at what was seen as draconian power-grabs by the UK authorities, the Bill became law later in 1994. Here, Harold Heath looks back at the reaction from the dance music community at the time, and the Act’s lasting impact on the rave scene today

The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was passed into UK law in November 1994. Infamous for targeting events that played music “wholly or predominantly...

MC Conrad, legendary drum & bass vocalist, dies aged 52

The beloved British vocalist, producer and label founder leaves behind “an unmatched legacy”

Pioneering drum & bass vocalist MC Conrad has died at the age of 52. Tributes to the influential MC, real name Conrad Thompson, began pouring...

Artificial intelligence is at the heart of a fundamental shift in music’s role in our lives, and for electronic music, the transition will be seismic...

For most people, artificial intelligence brings to mind a futuristic, sci-fi scenario of autonomous robots or machines capable of making their own decisions, and more...

Almost exactly 21 years after its release, Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ is getting the re-release treatment. Bruce Tantum explores the legacy of one...

This feature was originally published in 2019.It wasn’t meant to be a hit. It wasn’t even planned to be released. But when Alain Quême, a...

Photo of Paul Van Dyk posing against a criss cross of blue lasers

The German trance DJ also claims the ALDA event company “tried to block the insurance to pay for my medical bills”

Paul van Dyk claims he has received none of the court-ordered financial compensation from the ALDA event company following his near-fatal stage fall at A...

LTJ Bukem

Mixing elements of jazz and ambient with drum & bass, LTJ Bukem’s now-classic 1996 release via Good Looking Records was a statement of intent, and remains one of the genre's most fulfilling and impactful releases to this day 

For many music fans in the 1990s, their immersion into jungle and drum & bass started not with Goldie’s celebrated ‘Timeless’ or Roni Size /...

Tali by Jamie Lees

Tali was the first female drum & bass MC to feature on DJ Mag’s cover in 2004, coinciding with the release of her debut album ‘Lyric On My Lip’ on Full Cycle. Nearly 18 years on from that trailblazing release, Jake Hirst connects with the artist to discuss her self-produced eighth studio album, ‘Future Dwellers’, and the journey of self-worth that lead to it

“I was so busy and stressed back then, but I was having the time of my life,” Tali says, sitting back in her chair with...

Legendary Midlands club night Godskitchen announces 25th anniversary party

It returns from a six-year hiatus with a line-up featuring Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten and more

Iconic Midlands club night Godskitchen has revealed plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary later this year. Taking place on 17th December, the club night will...