That Detroit gave Motown to the world, two decades before it birthed techno, is a historical fact that if not exactly ignored by electronic music...
Search
Results for: Born Slippy
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From fiery footwork and acid-laced techno to driving EBM and textured sound...
TERR
FOR FANS OF: Laurie Anderson, John Talabot, Marvin & Guy
A release on Permanent Vacation is a landmark in any artist’s career; take the...
Combining the creative futurism of techno with the melodic buzz of disco, Inner City laid the template for upbeat dance music albums
With Miller Genuine Draft
Our annual Top 100 Clubs poll, powered by Miller Genuine Draft, is a shining example of the diversity of modern nightclub culture. The once ubiquitous...
Seminal tracks that altered dance forever
When I put it on, the whole club stood there and stared at me. I was the only one rocking in the DJ box, no one else was, and when the bassline actually dropped, that's when the whole crowd went a bit loopy for it
Here, we outline some of the best beaches in Ibiza...
North/East
Aguas Blancas
Ibiza’s famous liberal spirit is well-represented on Aguas Blancas, a nudist beach that’s also rightly revered as being one of the island’s...
From Los Angeles club night to leading bass label, SMOG has engulfed the world
Flashback to 2006, dubstep in America. "In my opinion, Los Angeles was ripe for it,” Drew Best, co-originator of SMOG, tells DJ Mag. “We had...
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
It’s not often that we become excitable. In fact it’s a downright rare sight to see raised eyebrows and excited conversation when a new product...
Celebrating twenty years at Radio 1
It's almost impossible to imagine the changes in dance music that Pete Tong has seen since he first stepped up to the decks as a...
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...
Cheeky bubblers incoming...
Fan of fresh talent? Then you're going to love this! Each month, the editorial team at DJ Mag HQ rummages through our collective Soundclouds and...
Before his death in 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the American gay underground's most thrilling dance music, from chart-topping disco to radical club tracks...
Built on Bass, DiY values and homegrown talent, Sheffield's eclectic parties are smasing it up.<BR>
The antithesis of shiny, characterless superclubs, generic music policies, and door prices that empty your week’s budget in one hit, the secretive and sporadic KABAL...
Joy Orbison's debut, 'Hyph Mngo', is 10 years old. DJ Mag reflects on a track that signalled a seismic shift in UK dance music
“Big, big, big.” It’s June 25th 2009, and one hour into his still-pirate Rinse FM show, Blackdown is jittery. An unmastered new track is drifting...
In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Gene on Earth spotlights breakbeat trance, bouncing house, “bullfrog techno” and more
Cheeky Bubblers incoming...
BILLY KENNY
Kenny mix it? Yes he can!
Born and bred in Leeds, British producer and DJ Billy Kenny has been kicking up a storm...