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The year's most memorable selections...
Despite the free music market we live in today, 2013 coughed up another smorgasbord of good quality comps from clubs, labels and collectives committing to...
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The first episode highlights jungle's Hackney roots with revered originators Fabio & Grooverider, Roni Size, Goldie and more
Groove Armada
To the uninitiated, Groove Armada's return to making underground house music might appear something of a change in direction. It is, of course, nothing of the sort. Andy Cato and Tom Findlay have found themselves, thanks to a solid decade of commercial success, stuffed clumsily into all manner of pigeon holes; from dance-pop to pop-dance to chill-out to stadium-dance to ragga-dance and any number of other sub genres you might care to mention.
DJ Mag gets real at Miami's massive 'EDM' fest
Ultra Music Festival is a living embodiment of the term 'over the top'. Miami's South Beach already does this pretty well, WMC week even more...
The Clapham Common event is still London's favourite dance fest...
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BESTIVAL
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ZOO PROJECT
COCOON IN THE PARK
A music festival in the middle of London? That’s not at Hyde Park? What...
Pete Tong's Essential Selection
“Time is always my biggest battle,” states voice of the dance music nation, Pete Tong. “Finding the time to do it all and have the right head space to listen to so much music, you have to be on the case!” And he certainly was on the case again in 2012, picking up the DJ Mag gong for Best Radio Show for his tireless work on the Essential Selection each and every week.
House cat Huxley clinches the producer prize after a stellar debut album...
It is fitting that Huxley has been made to wait for our coveted Best Producer award until this year. You could argue that the Tring...
Juno Records
For the last two decades, the death knell of vinyl has been sounded annually. Usurped by CDs, rendered obsolete by the all-consuming march of iTunes and Beatport, there seems little rational reason why those heavy, fragile slabs of black wax should endure so long.
Disclosure smashed 2013 with their blend of garage, house and pop
Best of British Breakthrough Producers and Best Remix award winners last year, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence have now bagged Best Album for their debut...
Bass label that took things next level in 2013 is now getting the props it deserves...
Love or hate 'em, nobody can deny the impact Rudimental have had on UK bass music. Propelling d&b back onto the radio and into the...
With a touring schedule to make most DJs baulk and a wide-ranging style that spans disco, techno and everything in-between, Jackmaster gets your vote for...
In some ways, it’s like a certain department store unveiling their Christmas advert. Except with far better music and far less likely to make you...
We've switched up our end-of-year coverage this year. Instead of ranked countdowns, we've asked 40 contributors to pick their favourite albums, tracks and compilations from...
Bicep
The Northern Irish duo capture the zeitgeist with their NJ house flavour The schoolfriends from Belfast known as Bicep (Matt McBriar, 25, and Andy Ferguson, 24) have been DJing together since their early teens; since the young scallywags got themselves fake IDs and started sneaking into their hometown's techno bastion, Shine.
We've switched up our end-of-year coverage this year. Instead of ranked countdowns, we've asked 40 contributors to pick their favourite albums, tracks and compilations from...
Just Jack, Bristol
Remember a time when Bristol wasn’t part of the Holy Grail with London and Berlin as a triumvirate of electronic cool? No, us neither, but that was the case around seven years ago, with the glowing embers of a once great d&b scene the only thing to really be keeping the city on the map at all.