Copenhagen club Motopol will close its doors for good this month. The venue's team announced the forced closure on Instagram last week, 8th February, writing...
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The community and cultural venue "cannot be permitted for cultural activities" and is being forced to leave its Laplandsgade 6B location by the end of the month
Is being fit and healthy mutually exclusive from the hedonistic world of dance music? Or can exercise and late-night club culture happily co-exist? DJ Mag...
DJ culture has long been synonymous with a lively hedonistic lifestyle: late boozy nights, early mornings, days and weeks touring on the road — a...
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The new mixtape is slated for release next month and follows her 2022 LP 'Infinite Zones'
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The raucous rhythms of Jersey club have been everywhere lately, and UNIIQU3, aka the Jersey Club Queen, is one of the main reasons why. Bruce...
Ra Ra Riot explain their sound.
Ra Ra Riot weren’t afraid to use mistakes and accidents to create their killer sound for their new album ‘Beta Love’. Wes Miles tells us more…
Police insisted owners change the venue’s music policy
Croydon police are denying they told a nightclub not to play certain genres of music after a recording has emerged of an officer demanding owners...
‘Life in Black + White’ production tips
“So to provide a little backstory on the album... 'Life in Black + White' started out as a private side project that I would go...
Bulgaria's new Horizon Festival line up revealed
A tasty bindle of the UK's acts – including the likes of Jackmaster, Crazy P and Mark E – will descend onto the slopes of...
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With inventive production and animated lyrics in Spanish and English giving unique takes on violence and, of course, weed, Cypress Hill's 1991 debut introduced them...
Bat & Ball's sibling pairing hits the mark
One such new combo are Bat & Ball, based around brother and sister act Chris and Abi Sinclair from London
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From haunting experimental sound design and rare funk to lush drum &...
Two respected producers lock horns over new NI technology
Stems are the latest bit of tech designed to change the way DJs and producers play live. But there's been some divided opinion as to...
MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum & bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...
“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.
Kick it old-school with Kryder in NYC
Kryder, the London native who has been making the rounds on a North American tour, just finished smashing the recent three-day installment of Groove Cruise...
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At the centre of Daft Punk’s world-beating debut album lay a tribute to the architects of dance music, titled ‘Teachers’. With the help of Neil...