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With sizzling electro, crunching breakbreats, frenzied footwork and much more in between, Nikki Nair records a jaw dropping productions mix for the Recognise series, and...

Heavily altered and effect-treated photo of Bicep

Listen to the pair's new single 'CHROMA 001 HELIUM' now

Bicep have launched a new multi-purpose concept called CHROMA, which comprises a label, an event series, a hybrid A/V show and more. The CHROMA visual...

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Its the last chance to vote for your favourite clubs in the 2022 poll

Voting for the 2022 edition of the Top 100 Clubs is closing soon. The poll opened on 9th March at 12:00 GMT and runs until...

London underground sign that reads ‘what is the future of London clubbing?’

Over the past few years, against the backdrop of the cost of living crisis and austerity, an energised crop of community-focused collectives, promoters, and venues have emerged in the UK capital. Against some tough odds, they are fighting to keep the city’s electronic music scene not only alive, but thriving. Here, Georgia Mulraine looks at how promoters and partygoers are adapting to this new landscape, adjusting their expectations of what going out looks like and, ultimately, asks: what is the future of London clubbing?

It’s an early August afternoon in Tottenham, North London. Nestled on an unassuming industrial estate on Markfield Road, beautiful floor-to-ceiling record shelving is being assembled...

The true king of the mash-up.

DJ Yoda has been described as “one of the 10 DJs to see before you die”. His skills behind the decks are legendary. Originally a hip-hop scratch DJ, Yoda has now effortlessly merged the style with a whole cross-section of musical genres, blending reggae to dubstep, drum & bass and electro to country and folk music. The true king of the mash-up.

Felix Buxton at Electric Peacock Festival, Sri Lanka

One half of British dancefloor dominators, Basement Jaxx, soaked up the spirit of Sri Lanka at Electric Peacock Festival last December. This is how...

Black Lives In Music

Aimed at addressing pay inequality, access, harassment, and safety 

The UK music industry is set to implement a new anti-racism code of conduct from next year in a bid to end inequality and abuse...

DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs voting now open

Our celebration of the world’s best dancefloors is back

Voting is now open for the annual DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs poll. You can vote here. Top 100 Clubs is a celebration of the...

DJ Mag: diversity & equality report Q4 2021

Our quarterly update following our pledge in 2020, addressing how we can tackle racism and diversity issues within the electronic music industry as a publication

In Q4 2021, DJ Mag partnered with Youth Music for our annual Best of British awards. Youth Music fund youth orientated music projects across the...

In this first instalment of Spice Rack, a new bi-monthly column on underground music from South Asia and its diaspora, Dhruva Balram looks at the...

"Smoke weed every day."

You’ve got to give it to them – Das Racist are like nothing else out there.

The Brooklyn-rooted hip-hop duo first hit the scene a...

With an hour of shimmering ambience and razor sharp club clubs, Chevel shakes up the Fresh Kicks series 

“A guy on Twitter sent me a trap beat made with my burp sample,” says Chevel. “I loved it.”

The gift wasn’t unprompted. In December...

The one-the-road diary of the world's top DJs treading the globe

F**k Gary Barlow. If anyone in Britain deserves an OBE, it's Lars Sandberg, the great Scot who just keeps on giving. Silver-haired member of the British house and techno old guard, he's improved with age like the fine champagne of his Francois Dubois moniker, more so through his work as Funk D'Void on Slam's Soma Records and more recently Outpost Recordings.

London-born DJ iona serves up an hour of percussive heat, out-there bangers and club cuts for the Fresh Kicks series, and chats to Amy Fielding...

djmag · Fresh Kicks 161: iona

Back in 2016, like so many other clubs that have dissapeared from the London nightlife map over the years...

The new album from Edinburgh’s Proc Fiskal merges grime and the folk music that stretches back through his family history for generations. He talks to...

Growing up in the Pilton area of north Edinburgh, Proc Fiskal discovered Boards Of Canada through his father and grime through the internet. The former...