If you’ve ever wondered why Mr. Fingers — aka pioneering US producer Larry Heard — is so revered among house music aficionados (including, notably, Kanye...
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Force looks and acts just like the popular DAW...
Akai have revealed Force – a portable, standalone, groovebox and production machine designed to create, produce and mix your music without a computer. Having designed...
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Featuring Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, and Griselda's Westside Gunn
DMX's new posthumous album track, 'Hood Blues', has been unveiled.
Co-produced by Avenue Beatz and X's longtime friend and collaborator Swiss Beatz, the tune features...
Mixed up in The Hague
It's impossible to overstate The Hague's impact on dance music. In the early '90s, this small city in northern Holland crafted a bastardised version of the sounds bubbling out of Detroit, a ravey mash of jacking house and techno that, at the time, sounded almost impossibly futuristic.
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The Rockin' House Records boss, and first producer to add guitars and live instruments to the studio mix, leaves a huge legacy behind
Chicago house music legend Rodney Bakerr has died.
Baker, who produced and DJ'd with an additional "r" on his surname, suffered a heart attack last...
Josh Butler tells us the 10 songs which have influenced him to become who he is today...
Fast-rising producer/DJ Josh Butler is one of DJ Mag's current favourite house music producers, with recent tracks like 'Rebirth' and 'Miss You Less' nestling in...
Strap in for an epic journey through drum & bass...
Philth — aka Phil Robinson — has delivered an absolute whopper of mix for our latest DJ Mag Weekly Podcast!
Despite what his name may...
It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...
“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...
Jungle Brothers 'I'll House You' – produced by Todd Terry (Idlers, 1988) The JBs essentially added a rap to Todd's early house classic 'Can You...
Todd Terry started DJing around his home city of New York in the mid-'80s. “When I started — around '84, '85 — I was just...
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33 years after its release in 1989, Larry Heard’s debut album as Mr. Fingers is a profoundly moving document of timeless electronic music, brimming with tracks of unrivaled beauty from the then-young world of house
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DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisists and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this first edition, Ben Cardew...
Motorbass were the gently beating heart of French dance music in the 1990s, the duo’s octopus arms encircling everything positive that would come to pass...
Gomma Records’ boss Munk has hooked up with some of the world’s hottest underground female vocalists for his new production album. DJmag finds out more...
“I like my jeans to be dirty and I like my music to be dirty too,” says Munk, aka Mathais Modica, co-owner of experimental dance...
We take a look into what people are calling the 'primitive sound'
There's a fresh sound that's bubbling up from the underground to challenge dull dance and ridiculous stadium rave. Influenced equally by the early stirrings of...
The Electro enigma Larry Tee gives us his Take 10
Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Lee started hanging out with drag queens like RuPaul and Lady Bunny in the '80s before a whole gaggle of...
The psych-soul electronic groove of Jagwar Ma
Jagwar Ma, the Australian psych-soul electronic duo consisting of Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield, have been recruiting a vast array of fans via a succession of radio-friendly tracks and support slots with The xx and Foals of late. Their 'Howlin'' album is brimming with joie de vivre, and their status as THE feelgood nu baggy act of the summer — informed by electronics — seems assured.
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The 13-track record also features Nas, Bono and Usher
DMX’s posthumous album, ‘Exodus’, is out now.
Following the release of album single 'Hood Blues', featuring Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, and Griselda's Westside Gunn...