In the modern world, it seems sadly inevitable that any female singer who experiments with dance beats will, at some point, be compared to Björk...
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Recognise is DJ Mag's monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music circuit. This month, Texas-born, New York-based...
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Eastern Electrics, Creamfields, Houghton Festival, Yard: Open Air, Lost Village, Numbers @ EIF...
The nights might be creeping in but that doesn't mean summer is anywhere near over, as the Top 30 UK events in August 2018 go...
DJ Mag heads to Sweden for their take on Sonar...
Swedish people are cool. It’s no secret that the Swedes have a certain “je ne sais quoi”, a magic that’s spawned everything from furniture empire...
Nina Kraviz talks about Italo-disco, the RBMA, Detroit, Dance Mania, and her new label трип, as we lift the lid on her remarkable rise top...
When thinking of Siberia you're imagination is more likely to turn to endless tundra than techno clubs, the Russian region, which covers 10 percent of...
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In this month's label focus, The Sound Of, Ben Murphy catches up with Peter Adarkwah, founder of BBE Music, a longstanding haven for hidden gems...
With a main stage prized for marquee bookings, Bestival's other stages are filled to the brim with dancefloor treasure. Here's our clubbers' guide to Bestival...
Duran Duran, The Chemical Brothers and Missy Elliot... Bestival's headline acts are always huge and this year is no different. The past has seen the...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
DJ Mag takes a look at legendary cosmic jazz adventurer Sun Ra
A HUNDRED years ago a man named Herman Poole Blount was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Although he would have disputed that, for not only did...
Having just cooked up his fourth studio album, ‘Abaporu,’ we get a choice serving of the man behind the music...
“We choose to go. We choose to stay. We stick together. We vote. We can stand, we can fight, or we can go.” A speech...
Little Dragon's unique mix of R&B and electronics has captivated many...
Little Dragon married young, you might say. It was at high school, still in their teens, that the Gothenburg four-piece met, a good decade before...
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How Nicolette's ‘Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head’ mapped the future of electronic songwriting
On 1996's ‘Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head’, Scottish singer, songwriter and producer Nicolette worked alongside 4Hero’s Dego, Plaid, Alec Empire and Felix to create an album that mixed jungle, trip-hop, industrial techno and avant-pop into a singular work full of sharp, incisive lyricism. Ben Cardew explores the legacy of the album, and its vision for the future of electronic music
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DJ Shadow's debut album, 'Endtroducing.....', released via UK label Mo'Wax Records in 1996, presented abstract, instrumental hip hop as a worthy deviation from the...
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Recognise is DJ Mag's monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music circuit. This month, London-based Hyperdub affiliate...
Counting down the 2010s, we round-up the albums that defined the decade in electronic music
DJ Mag talks his new LP as Deadstock 33s & scores a first listen.
Still brimming with the enthusiasm of a teenager who witnessed acid house's explosion, Justin Robertson's second album as Deadstock 33s is a dark, psychedelic voyage...