Nine years ago, Newcastle-born DJ and producer Patrick Topping played his first ever sets within the deep red-painted walls of Ibiza’s DC-10. Then a fast-rising...
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Hosting its first residency in Ibiza at the legendary DC-10, Patrick Topping's Trick imprint has seen a release break through to the UK charts, and grown from an imprint to an empire. With Australian DJ/producer Airwolf Paradise on mix duties with an hour of club-ready label cuts, DJ Mag sits down with Patrick Topping to talk about his vision to share the versatility and imagination of electronic mainstays, and giving breaks to the undiscovered underground
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The four-part series features Or:la, Bicep and more revealing the stories behind their biggest tracks
A new radio documentary series explores the history of Irish dance music.
Across four 50-minute episodes, The Breakdown delves into three decades of electronic dance...
The piece will be open to the public for three days in November, inside a former brothel...
DJ Harvey has soundtracked a new audio-visual installation heading to London in the coming weeks, which includes rare footage from New York's legendary venue, Paradise Garage...
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A true rap obsessive, DJ Firestarr has built a career on passion, consistency and perseverance. Playing the long game and making opportunities for himself, he...
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Born in the UK in the early ‘90s, during a period of explosive creativity, the freeform breakbeats of jungle became the soundtrack to many producers’...
An avalanche of snare drums, sub-bass that pulverises your rib-cage, possessed divas wailing from the abyss; fragments of funk, shards of techno, dabs of dancehall...
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DJ IC demonstrates Afro house mastery for the On Cue mix series, and speaks to Tice Cin about his evolution through London’s club scene, growing up on the Aylesbury Estate, celebrating togetherness, and championing young talent
Beautiful madness from the UK trio...
Ivy Lab close out the week with a wonky rework of Dutch singer-songwriter Sofie Letitre.
Having just scooped Best Breakthrough Label for their 20/20 LDN...
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DJing around the world, working on your debut album for Ninja Tune, and completing a Masters degree would be hard work for most people —...
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From its beginnings in Yorkshire clubs to becoming a nationwide dance music phenomenon and chart success, the bassline sound has survived and thrived, despite the efforts of the police and club licensing authorities. Matt Anniss charts its rise, fall, resurgence and influence on a new generation of DJs, producers and ravers
Detroit legend comes to Corsica Studios
Detroit techno legend Derrick May recently brought the holiday camp down when we caught him closing Bloc Weekender. So the news that he’s hitting DJ...
We catch up with the Detroit-born Kris Wadsworth
Detroit-born Kris Wadsworth talks to us about Plastikman, giving up drink and drugs, still playing vinyl in a digital age, and making more fucking tracks for labels like Hypercolour, Morris/Audio, and Get Physical from his adopted city of Berlin...
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Every era of British dance music has its myths and over-simplified narratives — hell, even little known local scenes have urban legends. Below, Matt Anniss...
Watch ya bassbins i'm tellin' ya!
There has been one label that's been ruling the bass music scene for the past couple of years — Sub Slayers. Nominated for Best Label at the DJ Mag Best Of British awards recently, the label — started by bass fiend and former Kiss FM DJ Jay Cunning — has been smashing it since its inception.
After a trip to South Africa, an engagement with politics and a need to explore new musical avenues, these Bears have teeth.
“If someone said to you ‘Jesus is drinking in a pub in Elephant and Castle’ you’d go and have a look wouldn’t you?” Well, bearded...
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Showcasing the diversity of sounds on offer in the Indian electronic music scene and inspiring a new generation of artists to get creative, boxout.fm Recordings has evolved from radio station to club night to vital label. Alongside a mix from its catalogue recorded by Mutable Mercury, founder DJ MoCity tells Safi Bugel about the platform’s journey so far