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Here's the up-and-comers we've got our eye on...

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If you haven't seen Theo Kottis' name about town yet, it won't be long until you do. Picked for Groovefest...

Black Coffee locked for return Hï Ibiza summer residency

The weekly parties will run from May through to the start of October

Black Coffee will return to Hï Ibiza this summer for a weekly residency. The South African DJ and producer is set to take over the...

Album Of The Month: DJ Lag ‘Meeting With The King’

DJ Lag’s thrilling debut album is a testament to gqom’s versatility, and its ability to cross-pollinate with the sounds of amapiano and deep house

Lwazi Asanda Gwala, better known as Durban artist DJ Lag, is a pioneer of the gqom genre: a unique South African style that strips out...

The four-part series features Or:la, Bicep and more revealing the stories behind their biggest tracks

A new radio documentary series explores the history of Irish dance music.

Across four 50-minute episodes, The Breakdown delves into three decades of electronic dance...

House kings the Rhythm Masters return...

One of the biggest UK house music partnerships of the 1990s and early noughties, the Rhythm Masters return to the fold this month with their...

The rapper had recently been admitted to hospital

Rapper Black Rob has died.

New York-born MC Black Rob, real name Robert Ross, has died after being admitted to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, aged 52...

DJ Bone announces new EP, ‘Black Market’, on fabric Originals

The Detroit producer's first new release in four years is out 21st October

DJ Bone is releasing his first new EP in four years called 'Black Market'. Listen to the first single, 'Fulmination', below. Out 21st October, the...

Drake joins Black Coffee on stage at Hï Ibiza: Watch

The pair have been collaborating since 2017

Drake surprised the crowd at Hï Ibiza on Saturday night, 16th July, by making an unannounced appearance on stage during Black Coffee's weekly set. Black...

It was initially due to open in April

A programmed exhibition about the history of electronic music is opening at London’s Design Museum on 31st July as art spaces begin to reopen.

The...

The history of Spiral Tribe, the UK’s most notorious travelling sound system

Spiral Tribe were ‘90s Britain’s hardest hardcore techno crew –  a travelling party troupe of anti-authoritarian acid-adventurers, and a scourge of the establishment. With co-founder Mark Harrison in the midst of writing a book on their story, and PRSPCT Recordings recently releasing a collection of classic cuts from live Tribe duo R-Zac, Harold Heath dives into their history, legacy and vow to 'Never Stop'

In the 1970s, a teenage Mark Harrison and his younger brother would hitch-hike to free festivals, the country-wide network of large-scale, outdoor music events which...

With summer's subterranean smash tune ‘Jack’ signed to a major and chart success beckoning, Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, tells us how he’s heading for the...

Pop music has always run from the sublime to the irredeemable. The charts have rotated from gold to grot since the dawn of the Hit Parade, and the model doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. So whilst there are always dark periods when commercial radio is little more than a cemetery of tired ideas, dug up and forced to fandango one more time, every now and then a new generation of musicians kick down the door, reset the rules, and party ‘til the lights come on.

Fresh acts rising to the top...

DJ Mag brings you 9 acts to check out in May.

 

 

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New wave love songs

‘I Love You, Go Away’; a beautifully...

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DJ and writer Ash Lauryn’s three-part documentary will air on BBC Radio 4 this month

A new radio documentary series is set to explore the history of techno, from its origins in Detroit to its development around the world. Presented...

Initial reports to the contrary were incorrect...

Reports surfaced in the dance music media earlier this week that SoundCloud were preparing to block all DJ mixes that aren’t fully cleared, but the...

Yazzus announces EP on Tresor Records, ‘BLACK METROPOLIS’, shares single: Listen

"I want this release to be Black and beautiful, to be queer, and playful, a nostalgic nod to the '90s but also reimagining it in the current times"

Yazzus's debut EP for Tresor Records, 'BLACK METROPOLIS', is coming out next month. Listen to lead track 'Metro City Bay Area' below. The Ghana-born, London-raised...