For Vonne Parks and Andre Gainey, music discovery and exchange are fundamental to music making. The magnetic rap duo first bonded as teenagers in Tampa...
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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...
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In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, They Hate Change spotlight deep Florida breaks and bass, Gulf Coast gold, jam bands, indie, dub and more
Soft synth supremos Arturia have answered our prayers with a stupendous package of some of the most iconic synths ever in handy software form -...
Part of becoming older, and part of the old-skool, is becoming jaded and harder to excite. Once upon a time I couldn’t walk past a...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From futuristic UK funky and full-throttle techno to blissful soul and house...
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Ahead of his set at our DJ Mag Miami Pool Party later this month, Eats Everything tells us about his enduring love for DJ culture and passion in digging for many forms of electronic music
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped and adapted the world of electronic music, both...
Marlon Hoffstadt’s ethos when it comes to the club is pretty simple. Turn off your phone, savour the moment, communicate through the music on the...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From forward-thinking and experimental techno to bracing house and bass, here's June...
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Rave is a full-time occupation for TITIA van Beckum. The Amsterdam DJ has rapidly risen up the ranks thanks to her DJ sets, which...
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As part of DJ Mag's round-up of all the best in dance music in 2019, and in the 2010s, we decided to spotlight some of...
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Shanghai’s pioneering SVBKVLT label is creating a bold new future for electronic and club music, spearheading a movement inspired as much by Chinese tradition as avant-garde...
When is a band not a band? We aim to find out...
When is a band not a band? When it’s one or two electronic music producers recording albums that sound like bands? The dividing line between...
Funk-dripped drum & bass head plays us his most inspiring tracks
Always that most steadfastly independent genre, today drum & bass is splintered into a panoply of micro camps. In one corner, the giant, fizzy-pop electro chords and high fructose rushes of labels like Hospital; in another, the clipped, dark minimalism and sub bass caverns of its most underground soldiers, the Critical crew.
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South African house DJ and producer Themba has become a global star in recent years. Alongside a mix of thumping and emotive house for the On Cue series, Kristan J Caryl chats to him about his childhood obsession with collecting music, his ambitious 2021 album ‘Modern Africa Volume 1 (Ekhaya)’, and uplifting African artists around him
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With her supercharged rave productions and hybrid sets that pack in everything from breakbeat hardcore and donk to footwork jungle and techno, Yazzus embodies everything...
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Moscow-based experimentalist Kate NV steps up with an hour of captivating oddities, trippy minimalism and cinematic psychedelics or: “a good one for making and drinking...
Kate NV has been having quite the year. In the spring, she spent a month in Cologne recording a new collaborative album with former Dirty...