No story of CARISTA would be complete without a recap of that 2018 Boiler Room X Dekmantel set, the one where she transformed a crowd...
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Jurassik brings the gully monster breaks
Jurassik, aka Ben Child, first got into dance music in the late '90s via jungle/drum & bass. “Anything with a skippy sampled break, really,” he...
Check out the best DJing and production kit of the year
The DJ Mag Tech Awards 2017 was held in September, with the live-streamed event broadcasted to a global audience from our London HQ. Our panel...
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The ever-rising DJ and producer takes us on a tour of his beloved hometown...
It’s an unseasonably hot day in London when DJ Mag sets off to meet Theo Kottis. A Scottish producer with a story to tell, Kottis...
Preview the new album by Anjunabeats' pioneering producer!
Progressive trance imprint Anjunabeats is unstoppable right now. The forward-thinking label run by Above & Beyond has been responsible for taking the genre to the...
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Utrecht's CARISTA is on a quest to bring club crowds together with her irresistible, energising DJ sets. Ria Hylton meets her to find out how her United Identities label is elevating new talent in the Netherlands, and how she’s branching into new areas of music.
Debut mix comp for London DJ/producer is an emotive triumph
Part of the Culprit crew, London DJ/producer Jozif was asked last year if he wanted to mix the latest instalment in the highly respected 'Balance' CD series. Launching its 'Presents...' series which will be focusing on new talent, the Australian series tracked down Jozif, who partners Fabric resident Craig Richards running the Fist Or Finger label.
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Showcasing the diversity of sounds on offer in the Indian electronic music scene and inspiring a new generation of artists to get creative, boxout.fm Recordings has evolved from radio station to club night to vital label. Alongside a mix from its catalogue recorded by Mutable Mercury, founder DJ MoCity tells Safi Bugel about the platform’s journey so far
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The melodic deep house of Maya Jane Coles’ ‘What They Say’ helped put her on the map, and soon went on to be sampled by...
Zomo’s new MC-1000 controller is the latest box of tricks to tempt DJs and clubs to part with their cash. But what makes it different?
Zomo are a German company who have been supplying the trade with the nuts and bolts products that have been associated with the DJing scene...
In the star wars of techno, Seth Troxler has proven himself the master more than once.
Last time DJ Mag caught up with Seth Troxler in an official capacity, it was around the pool at our 2010 party in Miami. Then...
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In this month’s Meet the MC, Amy Fielding speaks with London-based artist sbk about coming up through the capital’s grime scene, his debut mixtape, and a new creative direction
DJ Mag USA speaks with the SCI+TEC label boss, and sound/live show innovator, Dubfire...
It’s 10am in Tokyo. The witching hour for most DJs who would probably be asleep at this time, tangled in a mix of hotel...
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An hour of gritty disco, rusted house and shrouded breaks from The Cyclist. We catch up with the Tape Throb innovator to talk punk, lo-fi...
Nothing sums up the work of The Cyclist quite like the name of his most recent EP. ‘Boards of Chicago’ was released via Italian label...
CLR's Rebekah is energising crowds with her uptempo techno trax...
Techno DJ/producer Rebekah was born and raised in Birmingham in the Midlands region of England, and in her mid-teens she cut her clubbing teeth at...
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...