Dancehall music has been the driving force in my career. As a DJ, I’ve played most if not all genres of music on radio and...
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The dance scene owes much to gay culture...
Earlier this year, Lithuanian producer Ten Walls was riding on a wave of global love with his big-room smasher ‘Walking With Elephants’. Then, in...
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Born in Jamaica around half a century ago, dancehall music has found fans, artists and chart-topping success all around the globe in the decades since...
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Deep, down and dirty at Worthy Farm’s sexy psychedelic playground...
This month, one of the world’s wildest clubbing spaces opens its doors again — for one long weekend only. The temporary queer autonomous zone that...
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For 30 years, Dave Beer has presided over Back To Basics: the Leeds club event that has grown into a global institution thanks to its...
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More than 80,000 people attended the event
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With inventive production and animated lyrics in Spanish and English giving unique takes on violence and, of course, weed, Cypress Hill's 1991 debut introduced them...
Our festival guide looks to Europe...
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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...
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One of the first legal UK mega-raves to bring dance music culture to the masses was Fantazia. With its emphasis on spending big production budgets...
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There’s a growing culture in dance music, known as 'flipping', where unscrupulous Discogs sellers inflate the cost of rare records to extortionate amounts. We investigate...
In September 2018, hardcore archivist label Ninety Two Retro released a double-12” comprising six tracks and versions from 1992 by Mystery Man and 1st Prodject...
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2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever
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A new wave of Polish electronic artists are drawing from the country’s musical past and the atmosphere of its Baltic coast to create a fresh take on Ibiza’s Balearic beat. Ben Murphy speaks to artists, promoters, DJs and labels about this unique scene's development
DJ Fresh has had a life of vertiginous highs and crushing lows — from his time in drum & bass supergroup Bad Company, to having No.1...
DJ Fresh still vividly remembers where he was the moment he knew his health was in trouble. “I was sitting in traffic on the Hammersmith flyover, driving home from the...
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From AUDRA festival in Kaunas, Lithuania, Martin Guttridge-Hewitt reports on a long-standing, tight-knit and thriving electronic music scene often overlooked by outsiders
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The votes have been counted and the winners in this year’s DJ Mag of British Awards have been announced