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Audio-visual artists have always played a vital role in shaping the distinctive aesthetic identity of electronic music. In the evolution of analogue slide projectors to...
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It's not that we didn't have an awesome time in January, but, let's face it, a year only ever gets better once the first...
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Manchester's Happy Mondays drew influence from funk, house, and psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound. Here, Ben Cardew explores the lasting legacy of their 1990 album, ‘Pills ’N’ Thrills And Bellyaches’, which dropped in the midst of the Baggy takeover, and defined an era
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With his house-focused project Jack Back, David Guetta has returned to the sound that first got him fired up about dance music. In his DJ Mag...
We throw a few curveball questions the way of Hot Since 82
This issue we coax Hot Since 82 into the Hot Seat. Genial Yorkshireman Daley Padley, aka Hot Since 82, has hit pay-dirt since adopting the...
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Ariel Zetina’s DJ sets and productions have earned her a residency at Chicago's legendary Smart Bar, and seen her release EPs on labels like itsfemmeculture...
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In 2002, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Viktor Duplaix debuted his entry for K7! Records DJ-Kicks series, blending some of the best broken beat of the era. Here, Ben Cardew explores the compilation's lasting legacy
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Ukraine’s Nastia could be techno’s most outspoken DJ — a world famous artist who matches her razor-sharp skills behind the decks with an honesty on...
When DJ Mag meets Nastia in the lobby of her upscale Berlin hotel one rainy winter’s afternoon, she doesn’t smile, and almost looks a little...
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1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” — in law. Despite widespread demonstrations at what was seen as draconian power-grabs by the UK authorities, the Bill became law later in 1994. Here, Harold Heath looks back at the reaction from the dance music community at the time, and the Act’s lasting impact on the rave scene today
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Richie Hawtin is one of the most pioneering artists in electronic music, and a true proponent of techno’s future-focused ideology. As the winner of DJ...
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Amsterdam-based brit Paula Temple is renowned for her full-throttle hybrid performances and punky industrial productions, which have earned her wide respect across the techno scene...
Ralph Lawson's Leeds house music institution 2020 Vision celebrates 20 momentous years...
Leeds house music institution 2020 Vision celebrates 20 momentous years in 2014. Here, label boss Ralph Lawson remembers two decades of one of the UK's...
Claude VonStroke and his Dirtybird label celebrate 15 years with the wind beneath their wings this year. To mark the anniversary, the label head is celebrating...
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If hard techno is energetic work, then Sara Landry is a divine healer. Driven by an innate desire to connect with and unite the crowd, the California-born DJ is often credited as the high priestess of the breakneck sound, but behind her signature cloak of organised chaos lies an unshakable force for good. We catch up with the international star to learn more about her spellbinding sets, and why the masses are craving a fierce new edge
On the eve of the label's 100th release, we talk to Romboy about turning his back on the mainstream and returning to his roots, his...
Marc Romboy is one of the most prolific and diverse DJ/producers around. From his early '90s house beginnings through a spell in pop music and...