In 2015, Belfast’s first AVA Festival and conference found its home beneath the towering yellow Harland & Wolff cranes — affectionately named Samson and Goliath...
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Spanning hard drum, nu-metal mutations, Jersey club and trance-imbued techno, Syn pulls no punches in her frenzied Fresh Kicks mix
“We play a lot of the ‘Hard’ genres,” says Syn of CXNT, the queer party she co-runs in Cork, Ireland. “Hardstyle, hard drum, hardcore, hard...
The DJ Mag USA cover star keeps it all in the family, DIY style...
After a decade spent pushing creative new sounds through the European underground, Solomun celebrates Diynamic Music's 10th birthday with a party concept that's as unique...
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Last month, 16,000 ravers attended Belfast's AVA Festival at its new home on the Titanic Slipways. DJ Mag traveled to AVA to discover how the event is creating a sense of unity, community and a second wave of rave in the city
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German DJ and musician Lena Willikens is proud to be an outsider, and her leftfield approach to dance music, art and noise resonates with followers...
Lena Willikens has always been an outsider. Born in the south-west German city of Stuttgart to a Hungarian architect mother and an artist father, formative...
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With a string of powerful releases, including the recent ‘Panther In Mode’, Alewya creates a musical universe that merges the spiritual and the physical. DJ...
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We go behind the scenes of Laurence Guy's live show, set-up and performance approach
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Keith McIvor and Jonnie Wilkes, aka Optimo (Espacio), have helped define Glasgow’s musical landscape for over two decades with their eclectic and dynamic dancefloor selections. As 2022 marks Optimo’s milestone 25th anniversary, a tour of their home city reveals the ethos behind their inimitable sound
We catch up with the Detroit-born Kris Wadsworth
Detroit-born Kris Wadsworth talks to us about Plastikman, giving up drink and drugs, still playing vinyl in a digital age, and making more fucking tracks for labels like Hypercolour, Morris/Audio, and Get Physical from his adopted city of Berlin...
Bob Sinclar has cultivated the image of a French international playboy over the many years.
He's been involved in house music, although in truth he is quite the family man. Now living in LA, he tells DJ Mag here the story of why he chose these tracks for this issue's covermount mix, where he digs for sample sources, and exactly what else he's been up to lately...
Over the last few months DJs from all over the world had been vying for a place at the Miller Soundclash Grand Finale in Las...
An unprecedented number of DJs had submitted their mixes to the MGD MixCloud competition page and out of these, 15 lucky DJs were picked to...
DJ Mag's tunes of the year
2014 was the year house heads reignited their love for melody. While shufflers continued to go wild for garage, a new generation have reared their...
Stockholm-based percussive house dazzler Art Alfie celebrates the launch of his new Velvet Pony label with an exclusive, energised mix and talks fatherhood, production and...
Since 2012, Oscar Wedren AKA Art Alfie has featured on almost 30 releases. With tracks on labels like Kornél Kovács, Petter Nordkvist and Axel Boman’s...
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It first happened at a media dinner about five years ago. I was sandwiched rather uncomfortably between two older international journalists — one from Amsterdam...
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One of the world’s most respected clubs, Berlin’s Tresor, has been at the forefront of underground dance music for three decades. Led by Dimitri Hegemann...