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A true acid house original, DJ Pierre (aka Nathaniel Pierre Jones) is one of the architects of dance music as we know it.
With Phuture, he was responsible for unleashing the dark sulphuric funk of seminal 303 cut 'Acid Trax' in 1987, forever remapping the genetic code of...
Recognise is DJ Mag's new monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak...
"It's fun to synergise different genres that wouldn't normally be put together," says Textasy, aka Berlin based Dustin Evans. "Coming up with different combinations and...
Acid house don Eddie Richards takes 10...
Eddie Richards is one of acid house's principal pioneers. A hugely important figure, he started out DJing in the early 1980s when he and a...
Acid veterans Posthuman ready their first LP in eight years, ‘Mutant City Acid’, on Balkan Vinyl. ‘Wish Mountain’ closes the album off on eerie, minimal...
UK acid veterans Posthuman will return with their first LP since 2010’s ‘Syn Emergence’ on 26th November. ‘Mutant City Acid’ will be released via their...
20-track comp drops this month...
Just in time for their 10th anniversary I Love Acid will release a 20-track compilation this month that comes on TB-303-shaped USB key.
Started back...
Win tickets to opening weekend of new dance charity
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is a new charity based around the motto ‘unity, community and serious fun’ whose aim is to raise...
Glasgow's Nightwave returns with an EP of wonky dancefloor trips for DJ, producer and label boss Posthuman's Balkan imprint. Get lost in 'Nagual Power', a...
Nightwave will release a new EP this week.
Glaswgow-based DJ, producer and label boss Nightwave's productions are an amalgamation of Chicago and Detroit house and...
We pick out 10 of the best books inspired by the early days of acid house
“Those were good days in Edinburgh, in 1990,” says author and screenwriter Trevor Miller, who wrote the acid house culture’s first novel, published in...
From acid house to modern politics and beyond
A new exhibition by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is opening this month.
Simultaneously running at Glasgow's Modern Institute and Art: Concept in Paris from...
We welcome the acid house legend to #DJMagHQ
Every Friday, we invite some of the world’s best DJs to our London offices for a #DJMAGHQ live stream to our Facebook and Youtube pages...
Robert and Lyric Hood channel crucial voices of Black activism into their new split EP on M-Plant. Hear Robert Hood’s rousing techno anthem, ‘The Struggle’...
Robert and Lyric Hood will release a new split EP on M-Plant on 14th August.
With one track from Floorplan (Robert and daughter Lyric together)...
With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...
Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'. Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.
Podcast from Mancunian brothers Shadow Dancer
“We are two brothers,” say Shadow Dancer. “We make sounds with boxes and they've been released on Turbo Records, Boysnoize Records, Bad Life and GND...
Rotterdam’s Black Cadmium return to Vault Wax with five cuts of Detroit-influenced techno and electro. Hear the bumping acid groove of ‘I Told Ya’ now
Black Cadmium will release a new EP, ‘Our Legacy’, this month via Vault Wax.
The Rotterdam duo, who have made a splash with their EPs...
Factory Records boss Tony Wilson apparently called it “the most important piece of journalism I’ve read in the last twenty years”...
An anthology of Freaky Dancing, the acid house fanzine that was distributed outside the Haçienda in 1989 and 1990, is to be published later this...