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Dance music prize draw Ukrainian

Signed copies of books, exclusive and rare vinyl, art prints, event tickets, clothing and more 

A dance music prize draw has been announced to raise money to help those feeling and trapped in Ukraine following the country's invasion by Russian...

As part of DJ Mag's round-up of all the best in dance music in 2019, and in the 2010s, we decided to spotlight some of...

A new crop of charity record labels has sprung up in the UK and France, donating their entire profitshare to worthy causes, and fighting poverty and inequality in...

Despite austerity hitting all but the most affluent, charity giving continues to rise. According to the Charities Aid Foundation’s annualUK Giving Study, British people donated a whopping £10.3bn to charity in 2017...

Dance music has a mental health problem. Sirin Kale speaks to artists such as Luciano, Courtesy and Marie Davidson, as well as some PRs and...

March 2017. Luciano, real name Lucien Nicolet, is in Frankfurt airport, and he’s bent double with heart palpitations. He knows something isn’t right: things are...

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Neurodiversity refers to a wide range of neurological conditions including ADHD, autism, dyslexia and Tourette syndrome. After being diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism earlier this year, DJ Mag writer Harold Heath began to wonder: is there a particularly high number of neurodivergent people in the scene? Here, he embarks on a personal journey to try and understand the relationship between neurodiversity and dance music, and its wider relevance within the scene

I’m Harold Heath: music writer, former small-time DJ/producer, and life-long club culture fanatic. Earlier this year I was diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism. Why...

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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

A quarter of a century ago, a record slipped out on Rumour Records that would change the course of UK dance music history. Created by...

A brand new digital resource packed with archive mixes, radio shows, documentaries, and written articles 

The Dance Music Archive has gone live, documenting 30 years of club and rave culture online. 

A huge resource, visitors to the website can sort...

The three part series explores the history of dance music from its origins right up to the modern day...

A new BBC  series, Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered The World’, is set to air this Friday 21st September.

The three...

Following the news at 7:30am GMT...

Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidential election today, beating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton eight years after the Unites States of America elected its first ever...

DJ Mag chats to Egyptian trance duo Aly & Fila

Egypt. Heralded for its mystical history and pyramidal landmarks, it's the cultural jewel of North Africa. Hardly the epicentre of the trance universe...

Ricardo Villalobos, Marcel Dettmann and Modeselektor are among the names involved... 

The history of Berlin club culture is explored in a new exhibition, fittingly entitled No Photos On The Dance Floor! Berlin 1989 - Today.

Taking...

The exhibition will feature workshops, panels and a book reading 

Lady Of The House is hosting an exhibition celebrating women in dance music from 8th - 12th March.

Commencing on International Women’s Day, the Lady...

If you’re telling people to “keep politics out of music”, you’re missing the point. Here, DJ Mag’s Harold Heath explains why politics are an integral...

It first happened at a media dinner about five years ago. I was sandwiched rather uncomfortably between two older international journalists — one from Amsterdam...