If you want to understand British music’s generational leap from punk to acid house, there is no better lead than New Order’s ‘Technique’. Released on...
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M-Audio's CX8 monitors are a triumph in both sound and design
The first thing you to notice when you lift M-Audio’s CX8 Studiophile Active Studio Monitors out of the box is how gorgeous they look —...
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Released on 30th January 1989, New Order’s fifth album is a sun-flushed pinnacle of dance rock, directly inspired by the hedonistic energy of Ibiza’s burgeoning club scene of the time. 35 years on, with the help of the album’s engineer Michael Johnson, Ben Cardew reflects on its legacy, and its influence on the acid house era
DJ Mag meets Róisín Murphy on the brink of her new LP, 'Hairless Toys'...
Róisín Murphy is the ultimate career woman. From teenage runaway to cult sensation, the mother of two has managed to truly have it all, thanks to...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
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Turntablist and producer Jon1st delivers his annual end of year megamix via the On Cue series: a tempo-shifting set of hyped-up breaks, turbo-charged drum &...
With Miller Genuine Draft
As the dust settles on 2016’s Miller SoundClash DJ competition, we catch up with one of the judges, Luca Pretolesi, who has worked with some...
Numark launches Orbit
Will Numark’s latest offering, Orbit, rocket into the stratosphere or fall back down to earth with a bang?
Detroit legend speaks out
Robert Hood was a member of Underground Resistance, the legendary militant visionary techno collective from Detroit. After leaving UR in the early 1990s, Robert pioneered a minimalist form of techno — along with Daniel Bell, Richie Hawtin etc — in reaction to the increasingly hardcore “too ravey” twists and turns that techno was taking.
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Drawing from dub, jazz and field recordings, the debut album from rRoxymore finds her upturning the orthodoxies of dance music to create something fresh
Embarrassing bangers & regrettable records inside...
We all remember the first music we bought, right? Whether it was wax, cassette tape, CD or er... MP3, there's little doubt that your first...
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Rising to notoriety in the ’90s with his hardcore techno DJ sets, Loftgroover had a huge following, before the pressures of popularity led him to withdraw from the scene. 30 years later, he’s back and rejuvenated as a d&b DJ. Holly Dicker learns his story
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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 Bandcamp collections...
French electro team Justice are preparing for a full-scale assault on the USA. The hottest production team on Earth, they're going all out to win...
It was in 2005 that a new sound first exploded into our eardrums. Appearing on then little-known Parisian record label Ed Banger, when the sonic...
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The new Ableton device recreates the popular DAW’s sequencer
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The TEO-5 is a five-voice analogue synth with 16-step sequencer and built-in FX