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Get to know the Mark E sound with this club-friendly DJ mix...
Known for his imaginative reworking of disco tracks, Mark E is an up-and-comer in the world of house. For his first full-length album, the Birmingham-based...
The Londoner is the toast of underground house and techno’s most discerning selectors...
Pierre Codarin first made his way onto DJ Mag’s radar when his productions started surfacing in the sets of Rolando, Raresh, Apollonia, tINI and more...
Wolf Music's Medlar announces 'Sleep'
Wolf Music must be pretty chuffed to present 'Sleep', the debut album from the mighty Medlar.
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LA label promises to protect legacy of much missed Chicago footwork pioneer...
When Chicago’s DJ Rashad, one of the leading lights of the city’s footwork sound, passed away in 2014, aged just 34, it sent reverberations...
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The Chicago house legend's first album as Mr. Fingers in nearly 25 years is out 13th April...
Larry Heard has announced details of his first full-length album in 15 years - and the first under his inimitable Mr. Fingers monicker in close...
US star on 'Atmosphere'
There's no doubting Kaskade's popularity, a Grammy nomination and recent award for being voted America's Best DJ showing the heights that the man otherwise known...
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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...
With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...
Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'. Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.
The fourth instalment of the intimate festival lands this weekend...
Field Maneuvers hits a secret riverside location 60 minutes north of London for its fourth instalment this weekend, running from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th...
We catch up with the Poker Flat boss to talk his latest comp...
Poker Flat's 'Forward To The Past' anthology is back for a third round, and it's as slick and club-ready as ever. The brainchild of legendary...
Feel My Bicep imprint reveals first release
Excellent house duo of Feel My Bicep acclaim launch label of same name with first release 'Vision of Love', out 24th September...
Kansas-born, Brooklyn-based Beckwith is breaking through with a fresh house sound founded on bulbous bass and crisp melodies. We find out how he's one of...
“I am from the Midwest, the real Midwest, like Kansas. Remember Dorothy and the Wizard? Well that’s where I am from.” Beckwith grew up so...
Derrick May will DJ alongside deep house legend Ron Trent in Chicago this Friday, to help raise money for charity.
Deep house legend Ron Trent will team up with Detroit's techno don Derrick May for a DJ session at his Chicago clubnight Africa Hi-Fi this...
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"Getting done by another artist, a Black artist, a fellow Chicagoan, without acknowledgment is disappointing"