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Sprinting through 42 tracks of percussive club heat, Club Yeke founder, DJ, and party-starter par excellence Tash LC ignites the Fresh Kicks mix series

“Kuduro is just so raw,” Tash LC says, describing the Angolan minimal, percussion-heavy dance music genre. “You can’t help but dance and sweat to it...

Mbongwana Star's post-punk disco beat, direct from The Congo...

We get a lot of music sent to DJ Mag Towers. Like, tons. We like quite a lot of it, and try to cover it...

Rinse FM announces 60+ new residents, Friday night dance show with Emerald

Yung Singh, Two Shell and Angel D'lite are among more than 60 residents joining the station for regular shows

Rinse FM has revamped its radio schedule with a number of new shows and over 60 new resident DJs joining the station. Among the DJs...

New Zealand's Ryan Quinlivan – DJ, producer, designer and all-round polymath – offers a characteristically soulful portrait of drum & bass consisting exclusively of his...

Ryan Quinlivan, as RQ, has been quietly operating in the drum & bass periphery for two decades, often more attuned to the scene's jazz and...

October is Black History Month in the UK. Ria Hylton spotlights a range of electronic music-related events on and offline taking place throughout the month...

Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) will host its first in-person event at Hackney Wick’s Colour Factory. Set for Friday 1st October, B.A.D. Presents... includes a stellar...

Victoria Park, London on Saturday 8th June

Thunder and heavy downpours at 11am is not a good sign on the day of a summer festival. Nor is a forecast predicting rain until...

Akanbi crouching on a rock in a river, surrounded by lush woodland. He's wearing black trainers, shades and green speedos

Moving effortlessly through a range of tempos and flavours, the NYC-based, Lagos-raised DJ Akanbi demonstrates his party-starting sound with a live recording from New Year’s Day at Nowadays, and speaks to Michael McKinney about the evolution of his GROOVY GROOVY events, and taking the dancefloor somewhere new with his anything-goes approach

Andrew Akanbi has been throwing parties for over a decade. His event series, GROOVY GROOVY, has a simple yet expansive ethos. Ticking each phrase off...

We catch up with the Miller SoundClash finalists

Miller SoundClash – the DJ competition that gives you the chance to get signed to a major label and perform in some of Las Vegas'...

Black Coffee, The Martinez Brothers, more...

Words: SCOTT ENMAN || Photos: CHRIS LAVADO

It's Halloween in Brooklyn. 4am to be exact. The Martinez Brothers are about to hop on the decks...

This month's essential club nights!

Fed up of 'One Pound Fish'? Glad to get 'Gangnam Style' out your head? Lose your mind at one of these...

Inspired by the flourishing West African rap scene and her time spent living in the United States, Ghanaian artist Amaarae has been crafting a sound...

Ghana’s capital, Accra, is often described as the country’s beating heart. Home to the buzzing Makola Market, postcard-perfect beaches and high-energy nightlife, it’s a hub...

Street-hop is a sound from Lagos, Nigeria that mutates as it moves between different neighbourhoods; creating new beats, themes and dance crazes as it goes...

Lagos is a city that never sleeps. Home to roughly 15 million people, the coastal megacity and economic capital of Nigeria is always on the...

Read 'em and weep...

Skillex has just released the twelfth episode of his OWSLA radio show, cramming in a whopping 91 tracks!

Recorded for a party with the Pink...

DJ Mag heads to Ghana to explore a rapidly expanding, festival- driven scene that, while rooted on pop and traditional sounds, is beginning to open...

March is an important month in Ghana’s calendar; it’s when the West African country celebrates gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1957. The month...

Government forces in Nigeria shot at protestors during an anti-police brutality demonstration on Tuesday, reportedly killing 12 and injuring many more

Artists and DJs are voicing their support for #EndSARS demonstrators in Nigeria after government forces shot at crowds during an anti-police brutality protest this week...