It’s just past 1 AM on a February night in London’s Corsica Studios, and Gramrcy has lit a fuse. DJing in a cowboy hat, he’s...
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The biggest tunes on the underground this month
A lot of water has travelled under the bridge since Art Department delivered 'Without You' on Crosstown Rebels in 2011. Tech house and deep house are still getting chewed up and spat out, with DJs dropping newly evolved forms of the sound as quickly as it's found its way into the charts and been picked up by stadium-filling titans such as Tiësto.
The biggest tunes on the underground this month
Since winning Best Label at the DJ Mag Best of British Awards in 2011, Defected have continued to go from strength to strength. Adroit at raising their finger to detect the prevailing wind of change, they've earned their rep by transforming the stirrings of the underground into mainstream success, pushing the likes of Tensnake to even greater heights and introducing house legends such as MK, Murk and Kevin Saunderson to a new generation of clubbers.
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Peach Discs co-head Gramrcy mixes high-energy house, techno and percussive club sounds for the Fresh Kicks series, and chats to Eoin Murray about producing dance music that feels wild and fun, and some future plans for the label
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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...
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...
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Broadwick Live has confirmed they are in talks to relaunch once development at its Surrey Quays location is complete
After a life-changing epiphany at Nevada's Burning Man festival, dance music icon Carl Cox is back with a bang, with an incredible new two-CD mix...
Given his illustrious career, now into its fourth decade lest we forget, you'd be forgiven for assuming that Carl Cox was long past the point...
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As one half of the duo behind behemoth label and party series Solid Grooves, UK DJ and producer PAWSA has been a quiet but powerful...
S'Express 'Theme From S'Express' (Rhythm King)
Mark Moore grew up in London and got into music at a young age. After his mother, who uprooted from South Korea after the Korean...
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Soul II Soul helped give Black British music and UK club sounds a truly unique identity. Collective founder Jazzie B talks about their ground-breaking debut, ‘Fairplay’, and traces his journey from London soundsystem culture to global star with Ben Osborne
An in-depth talk with the Hyperdub main man about his new album with Spaceape, 'Black Sun'...
With their new album ‘Black Sun’, Hyperdub’s Kode9 & the Spaceape have left tired genre pigeonholes behind, switched up their sound and conjured a bright...
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...
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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...
Zozo’s approach to music is both earthy and otherworldly, organic and encyclopedic, political and hopeful. Standing at the core of Istanbul’s electronic music circuit for...
Wonderkid James Zabiela chatted to DJmag.com about his love for Ibiza, his first visit to the infamous DC10, and being Sasha's mate.
Remember your first trip to Ibiza?
Of course you can. You'd heard a lot about the island, everyone said you had to go and then...
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Meet the MC is DJ Mag's new monthly interview series, getting to know emerging MCs on the electronic music scene. This month, DJ Mag’s Amy...
Huddled in a circle on the dark, smoke-filled dancefloor at Corsica Studios, the four MCs that make up Bala Bala Boyz spit over syncopated bass-heavy...