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The Sleaford Mods singer gets gobby...

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn started Sleaford Mods a few years ago, but it's only really now that they're breaking through into wider musical consciousness...

Techno at Caprices Festival, Crans Montana, Switzerland...

There’s not much that isn’t clean about Switzerland, perhaps except for the graffiti. From our SWISS flights, to the Sierre-bound SBB railway journey (for information...

Bass injected house duo step up

Some days you wake up and just have a blinder — for Dusky that blinder has been pretty much every day for the last year. It’s fair to say that the London duo have — in technical parlance — well-and-truly smashed it. Number #1 iTunes Dance Single of 2012? In the bag with the beyond-ubiquitous 'Flo Jam'. Radio 1 Essential Mix? Done, knocked off with style, and shortlisted for mix of the year. They’ve helped shift the paradigms for dubstep and house, had productions rinsed by everyone from Loefah to Calvin Harris, and killed it in Ibiza at DC-10. Ebullient and still humble, is it any surprise that Dusky producers Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman are loving life right now?

Hotly-tipped Mancunian techno man Indigo talks

That dubstep is a scene in flux is one of the truisms of dance music, like saying 'music sounds better loud' or 'Sven Väth enjoys...

Chicago's local authorities are supporting the city's first ever house music festival: DJmag.com interviewed the festival's organisers.


Chicago will host its first house music festival (Move!) in July


The local authorities are supporting Move! Festival


Lady D will DJ at Move! Festival...
Paco Osuna: "Ibiza changed my vision of life and opened my mind”

Paco Osuna settles in for summer in Ibiza, helming the second room at Hï every Tuesday. Here, DJ Mag Ibiza catches up with the longstanding DJ about his love for the White Isle and more

Spanish DJ Paco Osuna first came to Ibiza more than 20 years ago, and immediately fell in love with the island. Initially playing at Amnesia...

Juke Bounce Werk co-founder, Alexis Gutierrez — aka DJ Noir — explores how language can be used to appropriate Black culture and leave behind its...

We have been forced to address the elephant in the room.In light of historic current events, the dance music community has been forced to reflect...

Long-time disco and house producer and DJ Moon Boots recently revamped his tour to incorporate a full live show. We go behind the scenes...

On the eve of his latest album 'Bimini Road' on Anjunadeep, Moon Boots was hard at work re-imagining his latest release into a seven-person live...

From 25th - 29th July, Vancouver's CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium will present a huge range of female and non-binary talent ranging from ferocious techno...

Vancouver’s CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium has a simple motto – “Dream of a New Future”. Fundamentally, this five day event has been curated with...

 We drill down into the nitty-gritty of the 2015 placings, and congratulate this year's new No.1 act...

It's the poll everybody in dance music is still talking about. Love it or loathe it, DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs poll is still the...

With her contagious effervescence and imaginative foresight, Alison Wonderland is dance music's newest badass on the block. 

 

There is a fine line between trying and doing. Alex Scholler, aka Alison Wonderland, is undoubtedly doing … and on her own terms. Effortlessly cool...

The influences that have made the Circus man into the artist he is today...

01. RUFUS & CHAKA KHAN 'Ain't Nobody'

“A record I first heard as part of the soundtrack to Breakdance: The Movie (Breakin'). I was...

Toronto-raised house duo Art Department return with their second album, 'Natural Selection', to show that they've got what it takes to evolve and survive in...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “natural selection” as “the process by which plants and animals that can adapt to changes in their environment are able to...

Om Unit aka Jim Coles discusses his genre defying label Cosmic Bridge and their brilliant new compilation 'Cosmology'

Journalists and musicians tend to chase genres like toddlers do pigeons. It’s often a dizzying and frantic flap around in circles. So when history screams...

The latest reworking of the dance music archive?

Two decades after they first inspired the establishment to try and legislate against dance music, the breakbeats that fuelled jungle and hardcore have found new life at the hands of producers who were in nappies when 'Terminator' was first released. But what’s behind this latest reworking of the dance music archive?