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DJ Mag chats to James Ford about making the new LP, aliens, cowboy ghost towns, destruction and drones...

When the Klaxons joked that their producer, James Ford, communicated with aliens through his hair, they weren’t only paying tribute to his curly black locks...

After a devastating accident, musician Dax Pierson spent years rehabilitating himself, and working towards a hyper-personal sound. With his latest album, ‘Nerve Bumps (A Queer...

Deep in the manzanita-studded woodlands of Northern California, there’s a scenic resort where gold miners once bathed in restorative mineral springs, and queer hippies sought...

Tracing the journey of the d&b kid from the Midlands...

Goldie is back with an amazing new album. And not just any old album either. Hugely ambitious in breadth and scope, 'The Journey Man' is...

Magda talks women in dance music, new event series PERM and her just-launched tequila brand...

Words: DANI DEAHL Pics: CORNELIA THONHAUSER & LEANDRO QUINTERO

on a ragga tip xl recordings

Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story

‘Ey ey ba day ba wadladie day’ The opening lyrics to SL2’s ‘On A Ragga Tip’ immediately come up when you type its title into...

<p>All shapes and sizes on the mainland once again...</p>

Emerging Ibiza
Stars of the future

Emerging Ibiza WHEN? 27th-31st May WHERE? Space, Sands, Zoo Project, Plan Be, Ushuaia, Sankeys, Amnesia and more TBA...

The young Swedish EDM DJ/producer was a hero to millions, but struggled with his demons while on tour. DJ Mag’s digital editor Charlotte Lucy Cijffers...

At the end of April, the news that Avicii had died rocked the dance music world. The Swedish DJ, producer and songwriter passed away in...

The return of the Angel!

Dave is resolutely BACK — but where has he been?

LTJ Bukem - the undisputed don of dreamy drum & bass - is back with a killer 'FabricLive' mix and a resurgent Good Looking Records

It’s arguable that, Goldie aside, nobody did more to disseminate drum & bass in its early years than DJ/producer/label kingpin LTJ Bukem. His spacey, rolling...

With his new album, ‘Fragments’, on Ninja Tune, English electronic musician and DJ Bonobo has delivered his strongest, most versatile album since 2010's 'Black Sands'...

Sat on a sofa in the Ninja Tune offices, somewhere in Kennington, South London, Simon Green, aka Bonobo, is pondering the question of why his...

New York techno legend Adam X talks about EDM and sticking to his guns

New York City's Adam X is one of the original US electronic dance architects, with a fine line in brutal, astringent blasts of industrial techno...

For two decades dBridge has been crafting next-level drum &amp; bass, as part of Bad Company, solo, with his label Exit and fellow zeitgeist surfers...

He's made house, electro, techno, done it all, but it's still breakbeat culture he returns to time and time again...

Fake Blood talks to the press for the first time about his new album

DJ Mag quizzed him about his hip-hop roots, graffiti, EDM and his burgeoning soundtrack work for a famous cult horror movie...

Alison Wonderland is on the verge of releasing her sophomore studio album, ‘Awake’, after an incredible 2017 that saw her debut at No. 89 on...

Alison Wonderland is serenading DJ Mag over the phone. We’re comparing tattoos, and this author only has one – a waveform from Modjo’s 2001 hit...

As exam boards start to include DJing as part of their music GCSE, DJ Mag sent some legends of the artform back to school, and put...

Late for the school bus, boring assembly, double maths, a quick gossip or kickabout at lunch — followed by a music lesson playing banging techno...