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Ibiza closing parties are in full swing over the next two weeks, with Circoloco, Cocoon, Music On, Paradise and many more hosting huge events that...

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.

Classical arrangements of his most memorable tunes for an orchestra? Is that taking it too far? Not in Schwarz's hands...

“I just like making music and I like when things change.” DJ Mag is talking to Henrik Schwarz about his new classical music album, ‘Instruments’...

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...

With fun as their prime directive, they're on the rise — and loving every minute...

Photo by Raymond van Mil

The rise – and rise – of Detroit Swindle has shocked none more than flying Dutchmen Lars Dales and Maarten...

Massive Sandsystem!

DJ Mag finds itself in a desert, 200km from the nearest city and surrounded by enormous soundsystems for Monegros Festival, but is the music as far out as the location?

We talk to UK hip-hop legend Rodney P about ‘Money Mad’...

The cover of Vikter Duplaix's DJ-Kicks record

In 2002, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Viktor Duplaix debuted his entry for K7! Records DJ-Kicks series, blending some of the best broken beat of the era. Here, Ben Cardew explores the compilation's lasting legacy
 

There aren’t enough musicians like Vikter Duplaix. Maybe there never were. Duplaix, a singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ from Philadelphia, dresses like a blasted supernova...

DJing around the world, working on your debut album for Ninja Tune, and completing a Masters degree would be hard work for most people —...

A defining moment for Jayda G came in 2017, with her Boiler Room set during Amsterdam’s Dekmantel Festival. She gave a sweaty, euphoric performance that...

Loyle Carner

Though never afraid to show vulnerability before, Loyle Carner opens himself up more than ever on new album ‘hugo’, shedding the image of UK hip-hop’s perfect ‘nice guy’ to explore his reconnection with his estranged father and his Black heritage, and what it means to become a dad himself

In the summer of 2014, as resurgent grime anthems like ‘German Whip’, ‘Take Time’ and ‘That’s Not Me’ soundtracked a new generation’s joyful block parties...

Techno rises in the heart of the Midwest and with it, a bold call to action.

 

DJ Mag meets Lisa Smith on a winter afternoon in The Black Madonna’s crowded Chicago apartment. A large film crew is staging lighting...

DJ Mag talks his new LP as Deadstock 33s & scores a first listen. 

Still brimming with the enthusiasm of a teenager who witnessed acid house's explosion, Justin Robertson's second album as Deadstock 33s is a dark, psychedelic voyage...

We pick the brains of the Berlin-based tech producer, TJ Hertz...

Objekt is TJ Hertz — a Berlin-dwelling producer who's gained notoriety with a series of carefully crafted dancefloor focused 12s for a select group of...

During the early '90s the word 'rave' conjured up images of the era's legendary acid house parties. 30 years on — hijacked by the tabloid...

During the ‘90s, the term ‘rave’ became a buzzword in the tabloid press. And it’s happened again in 2020. So much so that they write...