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Win tickets to 14th October face off

Things will be getting big, phat AND heavy on Thursday 14th October for the second year of the Red Bull Music Academy Culture Clash at...

The Magic City has a long history of homegrown styles that demand attention. Chief amongst these is Miami bass: a rough and tough blend of electro, hip-hop...

“An 808, heavy sub-bass and a snare that isn't shy. Sometimes a really dirty vocal.” These are the key ingredients of any Miami bass track...

The Phantasy Sound spins for DJ Mag

He's the toast of Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound imprint, alongside Daniel Avery, Connan Mockasin and new comer, Kamera, and now Ghost Culture joins us on...

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The Sound Of: Touching Bass

Encompassing parties, a record label and a beloved radio show, Errol and Alex Rita’s Touching Bass has created an open space to celebrate Black music in all its forms, from jazz to jungle and beyond. Alongside a woozy mix exploring the DNA of Touching Bass’ past, present and future by Sammseed, Ria Hylton documents the movement’s ethos and story so far 

“Touching Bass is a musical movement,” Errol Anderson tells DJ Mag. “And when I say movement, I’m thinking of forward movement — energy.” Alex Rita...

London producer Swindle draws on assorted jazz, hip-hop, funk and dubstep influences in his great new album 'Long Live The Jazz'.

“I know what you mean, like on ‘Forest Funk’. I played that guitar! I just do what feels right. I mean, I’ve grown up around great music, especially jazz and funk and of course drum & bass, garage and everything else. I just like to play around. I’ll play with any instrument that I can get my hands on. A little bit of madness. I like to try and get my head working crazy, to make crazy music.”

A new initiative, started by the founder of Love Parade, aims to have Berlin's techno scene recognised as a cultural practice, supported and preserved by...

It’s a grey, wet Tuesday morning in Berlin, and inside an unassuming building in Wedding, a fourth-floor apartment is buzzing with activity. It’s the home...

We take a look at Loopmasters’ newest sample library

Loopmasters turn to Bristol’s freshest bass-meisters Ross, Dan and Rob — also known as the Mediks — to deliver this slice of drum and bass...

Tributes have come from LSB, Rupture, Metalheadz, Doc Scott and more... 

Drum & bass producer Andy Skopes has died. He was diagnosed with cancer 18months ago, and lost his battle with the disease on Wednesday 23rd...

Dirtybird take their low end theory on the road

If there’s been one trend that’s wheedled its way into all corners of electronic music in the last two years, it’s bass. Indecent ladles full of the stuff, speaker stacks positively groaning with the strain of lowdown, filling-rattling subsSan Francisco’s techno overlord Claude VonStroke is incubating a nest full of underground club killers in 2012, set to hatch and dive-bomb clubs Angry Birds-style

Submit your Latin mixes to win a Fiesta Nights DJ residency

La Tasca’s Fiesta Nights DJ competition is in full swing! You have been submitting your latin-inspired mixes for a chance to be featured on this...

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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future 

It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...

Gilles Peterson, Simbad and 10 remixers

Last month DJ Mag spent a wonderful week in Havana as part of Havana Club's latest 'Cultura Mix' project, where 10 remix competition winners were...

Signed to Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound

Ghost Culture, Shan, Gerd Janson and Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound. Safe to say, this remix is a bit of a no brainer. Cooked up by...