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Fracture's footwork-inspired jungle experiments are something fresh...
In drum & bass back in the '90s, it was kinda frowned upon for people to start exploring other styles. But as the scene matured...
Revolutionising home listening
DJs are at heart music lovers. Dedicating your life to sharing and mixing a superior taste in tunes suggests a serious passion for sound. Most...
Prepare to gamble with Novation’s innovative new Dicer controller...
EVERY now and then, a product arrives on the DJmag bench that is so simple, yet so effective that we can’t help but wonder why...
We run through all the cool new effects on Vestax's latest offering.
Vestax have dressed the 280 in their classic black style and made it very intuitive to use. Everything is placed where it should be and...
Tech
For recording mixes at home, learning to DJ, live streaming or scratching the itch of playing your favourite tunes back to back, affordable controllers have...
Music
Recognise is DJ Mag’s monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak to...
LSDXOXO is a rare artist in the current electronic music landscape, having built a fervid following whilst making music entirely on his own terms. Although...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
Kings of the road
With the end of an era that came with the announcement that Technics were no longer making their undisputed industry standard turntables, the SL1200 and SL1210, a death knell rang. Finally, after so many years, all DJs have come to the realisation that vinyl is dead, right?
Get your kicks with Teenage Engineering's OP-1 do-it-all synth station
DJ Mag can’t begin to describe the excitement we felt when we finally got our hands on an OP-1. We’d been following the development of...
TC Helion’s Voice Live Touch is a remarkable sample station unit that will make vocal performances a little bit special...
The Voice Live Touch is one of TC Helicon’s family of live vocal harmony processors, designed to make the life of the gigging vocalist a...
Our occasional DJ tech guru Kutski puts Native Instruments’ miniature Maschine Mikro through its paces...
Maschine Mikro is the latest incarnation of Native Instruments’ game-changing groove box — a hardware and software combination designed to fulfill all those tactile retro...
Is Kam’s first foray into the DJ software controller market a worthy contender?
It seems like every manufacturer under the sun has a DJ midi controller on offer at the moment, so it comes as no surprise that...
It's like the Dragons Den for DJ Technology at the BPM show. Time to get voting as we reveal who is in the running to...
We're taking the inaugural DJmag Tech Awards to an exciting new climax as we go Live in front of a show audience!
This Grand Finale...
Features
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, Colombia’s Rachiid Paralyzing spotlights tracks “with a unique and exceptional level of composition”, from breathless 2-step and techno, to intricate IDM, breaks and ambient
Features
New Zealand's Ryan Quinlivan – DJ, producer, designer and all-round polymath – offers a characteristically soulful portrait of drum & bass consisting exclusively of his...
Ryan Quinlivan, as RQ, has been quietly operating in the drum & bass periphery for two decades, often more attuned to the scene's jazz and...