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Science fiction has long been a muse for techno producers, but three acts – Lost Souls Saturn, Mat Playford and A Sagittariun – are taking...

"It wasn’t designed to be dance music, it was designed to be a futurist statement.” So said Jeff Mills on the subject of techno back...

Embarrassing bangers & regrettable records inside...

We all remember the first music we bought, right? Whether it was wax, cassette tape, CD or er... MP3, there's little doubt that your first...

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...

Coby Sey’s music sounds particularly special in winter. The Lewisham musician, producer, vocalist and DJ’s frosty, nocturnal sound envelopes its listeners like a thick fog...

Charlotte de Witte releases new EP, ‘Apollo’, on KNTXT: Listen

Four new techno tracks from the Belgian star out now via her label

Charlotte de Witte has just released a new EP on her KNTXT label. Listen to 'Apollo' below. The four-track 'Apollo' EP is the Belgian techno...

Baile funk is a phenomena of Black Brazilian music. But despite a huge fanbase and cultural influence, funk is often criminalised in Brazil because of...

In the early hours of Sunday 1st December 2019, militarised police broke up a Brazilian funk street party called Baile da DZ7 in the São...

We get to know Brighton's scratch king


Scratch DJ JFB is ill with the skillz “A lot of turntablists win competitions but never get DJ bookings because a lot of them don’t understand how to rock a party,” says mild-mannered Brighton-based British turntablist JFB, born to a French mum and a Hungarian dad.

He’s the ultra-chic Parisian DJ with a long-standing penchant for disco, and now Dimitri From Paris is back in Ibiza once again to headline Defected’s Glitterbox residency...

Honing his legacy as a DJ playing forward-thinking house records on French radio in the ‘80s, Dimitri From Paris has made a name for himself...

Album Of The Month: DJ Lag ‘Meeting With The King’

DJ Lag’s thrilling debut album is a testament to gqom’s versatility, and its ability to cross-pollinate with the sounds of amapiano and deep house

Lwazi Asanda Gwala, better known as Durban artist DJ Lag, is a pioneer of the gqom genre: a unique South African style that strips out...

Exclusive Alex Blaxx mix ahead of The Fat Club £5 January Sale this Friday

Few club crews have stayed on the cutting edge of cool for as long as 15 years, without getting de-railed by the ever-shifting sands of this faddish land we call dance music. But that is exactly what Chew The Fat – known as The Fat Club if you're cool – can boast.

Sónar Festival founder Enric Palau looks back at the event’s first quarter of a century with DJ Mag’s Sónar veteran Ben Osborne...

From 17th from 20th July, Sónar, one of the world’s leading festivals of electronic music, art and technological innovation, will return to Barcelona for its 25th year, and...

We catch up and talk all things bass with the fast-rising d&b producer

Xtrah aka Yasin Elgohary is a rising star from South West London who is quickly storming through the drum & bass ranks. With sub-low basses...

The parties not to miss at ADE 2014

Canals and weed is all you need. Throw in a jammed schedule of the sickest parties — excellently programmed and expertly produced — and you've...

Tomorrowland Medellin

The festival premiered its new CORE stage at the second edition of CORE Tulum back in January

Tomorrowland has revealed the line-up for its upcoming CORE Medellín festival. A collaboration with the Colombia-based promoter Breakfast Club, the two-day festival expects to welcome...

Object Blue's debut EP on Tobago Tracks is an assertion of presence unlike any we've heard so far this year – In her Fresh Kicks...

Object Blue's debut EP 'Do you plan to end a siege?' opens with a spoken passage, translated to read as an assertion of liberation, of...

On Cue is our newly relaunched flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both...

Logos is, by his own admission, not the most prolific producer. The London-based artist, otherwise known as James Parker, still works a dayjob, and in...