DJ Mag’s involvement with the ADE Lab — the conference’s four-day tech-focused programme that takes place in and around the Flemish Cultural Center de Brakke...
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Amsterdam Dance Event returned earlier this month, with the world’s biggest electronic music conference delivering its usual, unrelenting whirlwind of parties, panels and so much more. Here’s a handful of highlights from DJ Mag’s week at ADE 2023
We throw some quick-fire questions at Shadow Child...
Emerging from his anonymous beginnings on Dirtybird, Shadow Child has stepped into the light to become one of the UK’s biggest artists. Combining modern house...
The seminal tracks that altered dance forever!
In the mid-‘90s, drum & bass was the most futuristic, kick-ass, innovative UK-derived music around. After a gestation period in the underground, breakbeat science exploded into the mainstream, although that led to assorted TV ads and theme tunes and suchlike co-opting a d&b element to them. But because the scene itself was controlled by the DJs — Bryan Gee, Fab & Groove, Goldie, Hype etc — it was able to be steered back underground, so that by the end of the 20th century d&b was largely associated with the dark tech-step sound of No U-Turn et al.
DJ Mag join frontwoman Cata Pirata and the band in Amsterdam to find out what exactly spurs their voyages across the atlas...
From their Amsterdam base, Skip & Die roam the world looking for fresh sounds to inject into their raucous global bass 'n' beats. And with their debut album 'Riots In The Jungle', they're not afraid of stirring a little insurrection. DJ Mag join frontwoman Cata Pirata and the band in their home city to find out what exactly spurs their voyages across the atlas...
Tiga, DJ Hell, Soulwax, Boy George and Danny Howells on David Bowie's influence on electronic music
David Bowie's back with a new album at the age of 66 — and he's never been more inspirational. A musical and cultural icon, it's his immense influence on dance and electronic music that's been his greatest contribution. DJ Mag talks to some of the biggest Bowie fans in dance and pop to find out why
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Black-owned music organisations, radio stations and record labels are helping to create vital platforms for Black producers and DJs who’ve been held back by systemic...
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Crossing over to practically every genre, DJ and dancefloor in 2005, ‘Rej’ is an evergreen classic. Ahead of the 100th release on Innervisions, Âme discuss...
Carl Cox has never been your average DJ.
For a man who’s been playing in Ibiza every year since 1984, you might think Carl Cox would be somewhat jaded by the prospect of...
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Italian techno producer and live artist Giorgia Anguili began her musical journey in the classical realm, before gradually finding herself captivated by the power of...
From Brazil's Green Valley
It’s the middle of November, at the very beginning of the first ever Dream Valley festival, and it’s hot. So hot.
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A decade in the making, Tom Middleton’s new LP as GCOM, ’E2-XO’, on !K7 boasts themes of space exploration, alien communication and utopian “super-habitable”...
We chat in depth to the Saved boss about The Social, his latest venture
Already a successful producer, DJ, labelboss and father, techno veteran Nic Fanciulli has his hands full. Yet he's embarked upon another project. The Social Festival, taking place at the beautiful Mote Park of Maidstone, Kent at the end of September. Not only was he born and raised in Maidstone, Fanciulli cites the town as the source of his musical inspirations, taking him back to the early days out clubbing with friends and discovering his passion for house and techno.
Duo's debut album is out now...
Now that The Chainsmokers debut album is out, the U.S duo have taken to their Facebook page to breakdown the inspiration behind each track on...
With fun as their prime directive, they're on the rise — and loving every minute...
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The rise – and rise – of Detroit Swindle has shocked none more than flying Dutchmen Lars Dales and Maarten...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past
A guide to dance music's past