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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...

Willie Burns is the New York house producer everyone's raving about...

Willie Burns comes from the fringes. The US producer’s releases for Trilogy Tapes, L.I.E.S, Crème and Rush Hour have seen his left-of-centre house, techno and...

Daniel Avery in black and white looking at the camera in a big fur coat, white shirt and black tie

Daniel Avery has made the defining album of his career to date with ‘Ultra Truth’. Incorporating everything from techno and ambient to jungle drum & bass, it features contributions from SHERELLE, HAAi and Kelly Lee Owens, among others, and is simultaneously raw and beautiful. Anna Wall meets him in a North London café to talk about collaboration, staying true to himself, and the enduring influence of Andrew Weatherall

It’s a Monday morning, and we’re sitting in the garden of a modest café in Newington Green, North London. Outside, the final rays of summer...

Using data from Top 100 DJs voters and house/techno Beatport purchases, we present the Alternative Top 100 DJs 2019 

Last year, we launched the DJ Mag Alternative Top 100 DJs poll, in association with Beatport, generated by combining Top 100 DJs voting data with...

The Andy Warhol of dance music and self-proclaimed Mayor of Williamsburg, Larry Tee injects attitude into electro-house with his new album

Cruising over the Brooklyn Bridge away from Manhattan’s lofty skyscrapers and towards his home in Williamsburg, Larry Tee and his entourage are discussing an important...

Octo Octa in a red cut out top against a blue background

From her first release as Octo Octa in 2011, there’s always been an element of rapturous freedom inherent to Maya Bouldry-Morrison’s music. But since coming out as a trans woman and meeting her life/work partner Eris Drew, that feeling is rendered in brighter shades than ever. Taking time out from a European tour, Bouldry-Morrison details her road to house music happiness

This feature originally appeared in print in the June issue of DJ Mag North America. It has been amended for online publication, due to two...

Dublin’s Sputnik One blends bubbling techno, buoyant bass and depth-charge dancehall in his exhilarating Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Eoin Murray about balancing groove...

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Even as pandemic restrictions have lifted, and clubs and festivals have returned, the spectre of coronavirus lingers for many due to the debilitating impact of long Covid. Here, Dhruva Balram speaks to people in the dance music industry about how the effects of long Covid, and a lack of understanding around it, have impacted them, and asks whether it should be recognised as a disability

“My energy levels have never returned to what they were,” says London-based DJ and broadcaster DEBONAIR. “I don’t have the muscle strength and energy that...

With Marc Romboy, Jules Buckley, Max Richter, Carl Craig and more...

At first glance, we’re led to believe that the worlds of classical and electronic music are galaxies apart. But there are more parallels and crossovers...

Reinier Zonneveld: live and direct

Before headlining international festivals with his immense live techno sets, Reinier Zonneveld cut his teeth on the Dutch underground rave circuit. Megan Venzin catches up with the artist to learn about his approach to performance, and why his fans can always expect the unexpected

It’s been a while since Reinier Zonneveld had to outsmart the cops. Nowadays, when the Dutch producer arrives at an event, it’s because he’s guaranteed...

On the eve of their Miami gig for DJ Mag at the Surfcomber, the French G-house duo talk inspirational beats and rhymes...

“When I was young, I loved Notorious B.I.G, Mary J. Blige, R Kelly and A Tribe Called Quest,” says DANCE, one half of French...

Batu press shot surrounded by purple flowers

Timedance label boss, innovative producer and a boundary-pushing DJ, Batu was on an upward trajectory — but the pandemic made him question his motivations and examine his history. With his debut album ‘Opal’ marking a bold new chapter in his sound, he talks to Chal Ravens about burnout, reinvention, heritage and contributing to the Bristol scene that nurtured him

On a cool night in upstate New York in September 2019, the floorboards of a wooden hut at Camp Kennybrook are shuddering with bass. Somewhere...

After decades connecting the dots of disco, the timeless Nile Rodgers unearths Chic music of the past to create a future where his sounds will...

“What’s up, baby?” Nile Rodgers answers the phone in arpeggio. For those who have never partaken in a conversation with the storied band Chic’s co-founder...

A rare look inside the elusive, musical minds of Italojohnson

ItaloJohnson are real party starters. That is basically all we know about the mysterious Berlin based trio, but it’s all we need to know.

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Running the musical gamut from minimal techno to abstract hip-hop, dubstep to Baile funk, via ska, electro pop, house and Balearica, Sonar truly has something...

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Can Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave, really do no wrong? Not content with simply knocking out the funkiest techno and most mind-twisting house with...