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DJ Mag's annual public vote to uncover the world's most popular DJs is almost over for another year, and we've been evolving to fit a...

Armin van Buuren has won the Highest Trance award at this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2019. He holds steady in fourth place after...

Don Diablo has won the Highest Future House award at this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2019. He’s up one from last year, landing...

NASSER BAKER

California-born, New Jersey-based Nasser Baker has been under the tutelage of US house legend Dennis Ferrer for almost a decade. That is a...

Underworld are nothing short of a British institution. Alongside contemporaries like The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and Orbital, they’re one of a handful of acts...

Danny Tenaglia's name rightly sends shivers down the spine of anyone who has been front, centre and soaked in sweat during one of his club...

Following the announcement of the 2014 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs back in our November issue (congratulations again Mr. Hardwell!), the Top 100 World Tour...

Ready for crazy but cohesive collages of classical strings, bumpy dance beats and leftfield pop hooks? You better be ‘cos Clean Bandit have ambushed the mainstream with their refreshing blast of irreverent electronic/instrumental brilliance. But they aren’t easy to pin down...

Congo Natty has a rich history of involvement in the music scene for the last 25 years. Formerly known as the Rebel MC, he had chart hits such as 'Just Keep Rockin'' and 'Street Tuff' in the late '80s with the Double Trouble production kru before hankering down into — and helping to pioneer — the early jungle scene.

It’s the middle of November, at the very beginning of the first ever Dream Valley festival, and it’s hot. So hot.

“I love listening to a cool techno DJ, in a club, but if you go and see Swedish House Mafia DJ, for example, there’s no artistry involved. They are just getting behind the decks, with a finished CD, and pressing play then putting their hands in the air. This is something that is so wrong, because they get paid so much money for that.”

In the mid-‘90s, drum & bass was the most futuristic, kick-ass, innovative UK-derived music around. After a gestation period in the underground, breakbeat science exploded into the mainstream, although that led to assorted TV ads and theme tunes and suchlike co-opting a d&b element to them. But because the scene itself was controlled by the DJs — Bryan Gee, Fab & Groove, Goldie, Hype etc — it was able to be steered back underground, so that by the end of the 20th century d&b was largely associated with the dark tech-step sound of No U-Turn et al.