Shannen SP’s sets collate music from the vanguard of African and Afro-diasporic electronic music. From amapiano and gqom to kuduro, footwork, UK funky and rap...
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London's longest-serving Techno night, Lost.
As one half of Basic Channel, Mark Ernestus has one of the most influential back catalogues in electronic music. And just as Basic Channel releases were as eagerly anticipated as Santa dropping down the chimney with a sack of white labels for the techno cognoscenti during the 1990s, so Ernestus’ rare DJ appearances are almost as mythical an event. Or to put it another way, if you were to book him, you probably wouldn’t stick him in a back bar at the end of the night.
A hit with Hawtin & Dubfire
How many young DJ/producers would give their right arm to have Richie Hawtin AND ex-Deep Dish dude Dubfire queuing up to put out their tracks...
At what point did remixing mainstream pop rubbish become acceptable?
Don't get DJ Mag wrong, there's been a long tradition of the remix as a credibility boost in the music industry. Back in the day, from the late '80s and the first crossover of house music onwards, dire popstrels of the ilk of Simply Red and the Spice Girls (or rather their record companies) would be queuing up for a taste of authentic dance flavour, getting cool names to remix their tracks in order to boost sales of 12”s.
With Miller Genuine Draft
Among other things, Moscow is famous for its ornately designed Rail and Metro stations. Designed to be ‘palaces of the people’, you can spend hours visiting these decorative terminals of transport in a way that is unique to the Russian capital.
“If we want to change perceptions about club culture we need to act”
Earlier this year the Night Time Industries Association launched Nightlife Matters, a grassroots movement to promote night culture supported by labels, agencies, promoters and the...
Carl Cox reveals how he marries his old skool values with up-to-the-minute DJing technology...
Carl Cox is one of the true grand masters of dance music. Back in the day, who wasn’t amazed to see Carl spin on three...
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With a new EP driven by the rave and jungle sounds that first inspired her, and her Batty Bass club-night revived, Hannah Holland is having...
Rewind to the early noughties in London: Turnmills and The End were still in full swing, and Hackney still had a lawless feel with its...
Native Instruments’ new compact controller for Traktor, the S2, gives DJs ultimate portability with a sweet-as-candy price
There’s a lot of truth in saying that size doesn’t matter — especially when we’re talking about the new Traktor S2 controller. The boys 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 collections. This week, Shannen SP spotlights amapiano, footwork, Asakaa drill and more
Chicago's local authorities are supporting the city's first ever house music festival: DJmag.com interviewed the festival's organisers.
Chicago will host its first house music festival (Move!) in July
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DJ Mag Tech Awards is back to shine a light on all the latest developments in the world of dance technology. With “industry standard” CDJs/media...
The prolific dubstep duo return with some of their best yet...
The international dubsteppers have already had a pretty heavy release schedule this year; producing two EPs, an album, as well as many free downloads and...
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45% of samples believed to be MDMA that were tested at three festivals in England last summer in fact contained none of the drug
Crossing between electronic music and the arts, Sonar is regarded as one of the best festivals on the planet. Taking place 19th – 21st June...
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1. Sonar was created by three people - Sergio Caballero, Ricard Robles and Enric Palau. Sergio and Enric were musicians in a band called...