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UK label Champion Records is celebrating its 35th year with a series of remixes of classic releases. The label's best-known hit is Robin S' ‘Show...
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Bristol’s Livity Sound label has crafted a distinctive style and sonic blueprint, drawing from dub techniques but impossible to categorise. Celebrating a decade in existence...
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One down, 11 to go, with Honey Dijon's Full Fantasy, Hit & Run at Mayfield, 5 Years of Timedance
We can take solace in the fact a long and arduous January is over, but the real nocturnal work starts here, as the following goes...
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
Nina Las Vegas has cultivated a fierce reputation for herself as Australia’s queen of club music. Hard work is something she’s always risen to, but...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From hammering techno to trippy deep house, here's April 2019's list of...
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Recognise is DJ Mag’s monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak to...
DJ Lag is a pioneer of one of the most exciting electronic music movements to surface this decade. Over the last few years, gqom has...
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fabric 19th Birthday, No Bounds Festival, Simple, Simple Things Festival, At One, Terminal V...
If there were arguments as to whether the UK’s regional cities were undergoing an electronic renaissance then this month settles it.
Not that London’s October...
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From fiery footwork and acid-laced techno to driving EBM and textured sound...
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FOR FANS OF: Laurie Anderson, John Talabot, Marvin & Guy
A release on Permanent Vacation is a landmark in any artist’s career; take the...
There were plenty of great artist albums released in our scene this year, more than ably demonstrating how the long-player format is still crucially important...
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49. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas ‘Square One’
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48. Sense MC ‘The Elephant In The Room’
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Theo Kottis
Theo Theo Theo!
If you haven't seen Theo Kottis' name about town yet, it won't be long until you do. Picked for Groovefest...
It's not that Noisia are noisier — or luidruchtiger, in their native lingo — than other Dutch drum & bas acts, but the expert beat scientists are certain...
It's well-publicised that the Dutch are obsessed with house, techno and EDM (and let's not forget the insanity that is hardstyle). Sadly though, one particular...
DJ Mag Ibiza joined the pair at their Ibiza villa...
Often derided by electronic music purists as little more than disposable pop, EDM is the love-it-or-loathe sound that’s got the whole music industry talking...
From savng his pennies as a teenager in Germany to becoming Berlin's star of techno and soul, Fritz Kalkbrenner opens up about his plight...
“I’d work from six in the morning until 10 in the evening, in February, up to your waist in cold water in those rubber...
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Glastonbury isn't a festival, it's a settlement. Twice the size of Bath, it's more like a refugee camp for society's arty and most liberal than...
From Los Angeles club night to leading bass label, SMOG has engulfed the world
Flashback to 2006, dubstep in America. "In my opinion, Los Angeles was ripe for it,” Drew Best, co-originator of SMOG, tells DJ Mag. “We had...