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Cubase 7 on the bench!

It’s a New Year and an especially exciting time for many producers and musicians due to the release of the new versions of Cubase and Cubase Artist, which have now reached version 7.

A Tribe Called Red’s ‘pow-wow-step’ thrills and excites

Did Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus ‘discover’ America 500-odd years ago? No! He may have been one of the first white men to open up the...

Drum & bass sound designer readies debut album

Rather than pretending that he used to sneak into Metalheadz nights at the Blue Note in London aged 11, drum & bass sound designer Rockwell...

With the biggest house/tech line-ups imaginable and a weekly back room Lovebox residency from Groove Armada, the arrival of Pete Tong's Wonderland at Eden has...

If you think San Antonio and clubbing means over-spilling trance breakdowns or obvious electro-house wiggles then check your prejudices in at the airport this season...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

We met Geoff Oakes of <a href="http://www.renaissanceuk.com/index_ok.php">Renaissance</a&gt; to discuss his latest venture - the boutique festival Wild In the Country, taking place on Saturday 30th June...

How does it feel to have made it to 15 years of Renaissance?


"It doesn't seem like 15 years and it's gone really quickly! Upon...

Driven by an inquisitive nature and an unshakeable love for the dancefloor, deep house innovator Powder is taking her passionate eclecticism beyond the cities of...

Listening to Powder is like watching a synchronised swim routine. Agile, rhythmic movements appear as organic as they do complex, her sound as exhilarating as...

New 1500-capacity London venue announced as part of Secretsundaze Multi Multi Festival

The canal-side greenspace will debut at Multi Multi Festival, hosted by Secretsundaze

A new 1500-capacity venue in London will debut at Secretsundaze Multi Multi Festival in July. The open-air venue, The Garden at Hackney Bridge, is located...

Pete Tong DJ Academy launches free scholarship program

DJ Mag will award ten scholarship places to applicants across our readership and community partners

The Pete Tong DJ Academy has launched a new scholarships scheme, providing free access to their full program to a select number of applicants. Launched...

Sam Divine

Sam Divine is the Queen of Defected, and she’s helming the UK house music brand’s first season at Ushuaïa Ibiza this season as its weekly resident and key figurehead. For the the first of DJ Mag's 2024 Ibiza cover stories, Divine speaks candidly about her difficult upbringing, falling in love with house music, lifestyle changes, and her enduring passion for DJing around the world

Sam Divine’s life should be a movie. It’s had the humble beginnings, the setbacks and the dark times, and now the feel-good resolution comes against...

Milan's mischievous crunk house tag team Crookers are primed to be the next dance music superstars. Prior to a momentous gig at London's top dance...

For time immemorial remixes have been the backbone of dance music. A great remix extends the life of a song, makes an average track into...

With Miller Genuine Draft

Miller SoundClash is the annual competition run by Miller Genuine Draft, in association with DJ Mag and Mixcloud, to uncover the very best up-and-coming DJ...

'Unbelievable' singer James Atkin releases debut solo album

James Atkin was the singer in EMF, the early '90s indie-dance UK act who had a massive worldwide hit with 'Unbelievable' in 1990. EMF formed...

Read the future house don's tour diary

Making his name on Hot Waves back in 2010, Alexis Raphael has refused to be pinned down, dropping house, techno and everything in between onto labels such as Lower East, Hot Creations and Heidi's Jackathon Jams in recent years. Scoring a nomination for Breakthrough DJ at our Best Of British Awards last year, he's a dab hand on the decks too, as likely to be found spinning at the world's biggest rooms as he is the hidden basements of the globe's most cultured cities. With recent gigs in Mexico, Italy and Equador making up his schedule, as well as a set at the Gist tent at Brownstock Festival on Sunday 1st September, we asked him to tell it like it is...

IK Multimedia iRig Mix/DJRig is a radical fusion of hi tech iPad meets old school DJ technology.

It seems like iPhone and iPod DJing apps are pretty much ten a penny these days. Just as virtual DJing on computers revolutionised the affordability and availability of DJing, the idea of being able to skip the laptop altogether and do things on a tablet — or even your phone — is too good to resist. But sometimes you just want to get your hands dirty. And no matter how well you know your tunes, it is hard to mix without cueing the incoming track. Enter iRig Mix.