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Since releasing on Boysnoize Records and Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit, electro fiend Jensen Interceptor is getting everyone from Sync 24 to Maceo Plex fired up...

There’s something very apt about the name of Sydney, Australia’s electro fiend Jensen Interceptor. He sounds like a cosmic voyager, but it’s actually the name...

DJ names his handful

Starkillers, with a reputation for powerful, high-energy house, is growing continuously with releases dropping like bombs  collaborations with some of electronic dance music's finest. 2013 saw...

With his jaw-dropping new release 'Fabric Live 45', A Trak has extinguished any doubts about his own rights to fame after working with Kanye West.

Having won the DMC DJ World Championships at age 15 - the youngest ever contestant to do so - A Trak was already a legend...

Newcastle United goalkeeper Loris Karius reportedly denied Berghain

“I’ve never been dumped like that before,” his fiancée said.

Louis Karuis, goalkeeper for Newcastle United, and his fiancée Diletta Leotta were reportedly denied entry to Berghain recently. As Bild reports, the German footballer and...

Photo of Stella Zekri wearing a white sweater, red lipstick and smiling

Berlin-based Parisian DJ, vocalist and CockTail d'Amore resident Stella Zekri spins a thumping vinyl mix of early house, post disco and boogie for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Ria Hylton about finding her feet in dance music, her Body Language party, and more

When French singer Stella Zekri arrived in Berlin nearly a decade ago she had “zero interest in club culture”, only dreams of building on her...

Fresh Kicks 169: DART

Dublin’s Jordan Rafferty AKA DART steps up for the Fresh Kicks series with an eclectic mix of dreamy techno, vocal-heavy cuts and progressive club sounds, and speaks with DJ Mag’s Amy Fielding about emotive breakdowns, early inspirations, and AVA Festival

Dublin-born Jordan Rafferty has been connected to Ireland’s electronic underground since before he can remember. With both of his parents immersed in Dublin’s ‘90s rave...

Carl Craig takes Detroit everywhere.

With the release of a triple CD 'Masterpiece' compilation, Carl Craig shows why he's one of Detroit's most travelled and respect prodigies...

Emily Dust

"Essential listening for anyone who’s ever DJ'd, been to a club or is curious to discover the world through dancing in the dark with a load of strangers"

Emily Dust has launched a new podcast about club culture called Dances For Buildings. Produced by Erica McKoy (Worldwide FM), with theme music composed by...

Various pieces of artwork for Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy'

Released on 25th May 1984, ‘Smalltown Boy’ launched the gay synth-pop band Bronski Beat into the charts and onto dancefloors with its glorious synths, hi-NRG production and Jimmy Somerville’s soaring falsetto, which sang a story of rejection, pain and escape. Here, with the help of musicians, its iconic video's director and others, Bailey Slater explores how, four decades on, it remains an unflinching anthem of queer liberation

When you think of the voices that defined a generation, the 1980s had plenty of options. From Sade and Sinead O’Connor to George Michael and...

Hot young DJ/producer's new single features the legendary Ragga Twins

Charlotte Devaney is a DJ/producer who's very much on the up. This go-getting gal is also an actress who was in Hollywood movie How To...

Happy to mix up the genres, Love’s taste in music is right across the board, placing him in good stead to reveal his Lucky 7.

“It’s a good little track, it just came out of nowhere, it’s taken me by surprise,” Ali Love reflects, in his typically nonchalant manner, on...

This month's essential tunes

When you absolutely, positively must decimate the dance floor, these are the tunes you need..

California's rave history is rooted in outdoor free parties that celebrated psychedelic music and and unique environments. DJ Mag's Matt Anniss speaks to the Bay...

Every summer since 2005, Claude VonStroke’s DirtyBird crew has hosted a “BBQ” party in one of San Francisco’s many harbour–side parks. They’re not alone, either...

Wellies at the ready, it’s time for a festival (or three)! The summer has returned, or at least as much as it ever does in...

SULTA SELECTS FLY OPEN AIR

WHILE his penchant for dropping the odd cheesy banger has divided fans online, Denis Sulta is unarguably a top DJ...

The seminal tracks that changed dance music forever

X-Press 2 were one of the principal house acts in the early '90s, rocking the floors with cuts like post-hardcore progressive house cut 'Muzik Xpress' — with its memorable “Music, music, music” refrain — and the cowbell-tastic 'London Xpress'. The trio of acid house originals — Rocky, Diesel and Ashley Beedle — went their separate ways for a while in the late '90s, before coming back together just before the Millennium.