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Could a panel of industry professionals tell the difference between the different compressed audio formats of mp3, AAC, WMA, and Vorbis? DJmag put five experts...

The Judges

All our judges have extensive experience working with digital music and compressed audio and they're all foolishly confident that they'll be able to...

tabla touch

The Tabla Touch was created in Mumbai by Keda Music, a startup at Central Research Laboratory

The world’s first electronic tabla — the Table Touch — has gone on sale, created in Mumbai by a research team at Keda Music, led...

Premiere: Bo Sedkid ‘Full Dot’

Colombo-based multidisciplinary artist Bo Sedkid debuts on CHINABOT with an experimental hip-hop album exploring personal and political corruption 

Sri Lankan songwriter, producer and visual artist Bo Sedkid will release a new album, ‘Goring’, via CHINABOT this week. Listen to ‘Full Dot’ below. The...

Wordcolour

'The trees were buzzing, and the grass.' indulges a fascination with the hyper-real world of Foley and film sound effects"

Wordcolour has released his debut album, 'The trees were buzzing, and the grass.', on Houndstooth. Check it out below. The album features contributions from percussionist...

Mars

Listen to the noises captured by the Mars Perseverance rover 

A NASA recording has revealed that Mars has two speeds of sound. The audio was recorded using microphones on the car-sized Mars Perseverance rover –...

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We check out Mikaela & Friends, one of the island's more intimate nights that still boasts a cutting-edge soundtrack...

 

New nights come and go all the time in Ibiza. Only a few of them, however, manage to leave a lasting impression. One such...

DJ Mag gets the lowdown on London’s monstrous new multi-room, multi-purpose venue...  

Last year was, at best, a mixed bag for London club culture. The capital lost yet more renowned venues in Dance Tunnel, Passing Clouds and...

The audiophile speaks out

DJ Harvey is one of the UK originators of the dance music scene. From his beginnings in Cambridge punk band Ersatz, he discovered hip-hop and DJing on a fateful trip to New York City, and later alighted upon an eclectic mishmash DJ style inspired by the B-Boy everything-in-the-pot approach of the NYC scene's first DJs. 
Later becoming a leading light for house music in the UK, his night Moist at London's Gardening Club cemented his reputation as a true original, where his mammoth sets became the stuff of legend, and where he also invited the legendary likes of Larry Levan as guests.

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Making quality house look a doddle

Formerly the much loved Northern Light, newly refurbished Leeds venue The Loft houses both a house music legend and one of dance music’s freshest new...

This issue's hottest four names in dance music


Mikix The Cat
Parisian electro riot starter…

A self-declared “bass bandit puttin’ suckas in fear,” Paris’ Mikix The Cat has been busy putting France’s club...

DJmag.com investigates...

Secret Garden Party, Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire


They're practically ten-a-penny these days, yet amazingly, many festival organisers fail to see the benefit of digging deep to...

NASA ocean colours

Dive into the swirling sound of Río de la Plata, an estuary in South America 

A NASA scientist and his brother have created music from the ocean’s colours. Ryan Vandermeulen, a scientist at the Ocean Ecology Lab at NASA's Goddard...

Beth Gibbons announces debut solo album

‘Lives Outgrown’ will feature 10 tracks recorded over the span of a decade

Portishead’s Beth Gibbons has announced her debut solo album, ‘Lives Outgrown’ and has dropped a single and video. Check out ‘Floating On A Moment’ below...