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DJ Mag has teamed up with the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) and its members and others to initiate a helpline for people to report sexual harassment...

Carl Loben & Charlotte Cijffers breakdown this month's female-focused mag...

Whether we like to admit it or not, sexism is an ongoing theme in dance music’s history.

Even a cursory glance at the stats reveals...

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Argentina, Latin America's most southern country, has an illustrious history within electronic music. But it's not heritage alone...

With support from our sister title DJ...

Ageism in the dance music industry is a subject that is being discussed more and more, particularly its impact on employment. But what about its...

A dark club, flashing lights, a crowd reaching for the roof as the DJ drops a huge track and a roar of jubilation as the...

Underground4Ukraine

"Uniting the rave scene" to raise funds for Ukraine

Underground4Ukraine, a new fundraising initiative to support Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion, has launched to 'unite the underground against war'. Various European...

New London festival, Risen, celebrates the ‘divine feminine’ in dance music

Sicaria Sound, Girls Don’t Sync, Ambient Babestation Meltdown, Hannah Holland and Tash LC are among the many acts confirmed to play

A new one-day festival, Risen, will take place in London on 9th April. Running between midday and midnight across a number of venues in Hackney...

Music sounds better in the sunshine. Just ask Louie Fresco

Starting his dance music career as part of a small electro outfit in 2006, Louie Fresco made a tune that was picked up by Justice...

Redditors compile huge list of who he's worked with...

Skrillex has worked with an huge number of other artists over the past five years, a new list compiled on Reddit has revealed.

From his...

Exploring the rich raving history of East Anglia

The dance music history of East Anglia is rich, multi-layered and messy  — and little documented. Matt Anniss chats to some of the scene’s longstanding figureheads about the region’s airfield parties, seaside throwdowns and forgotten clubs, discovering a vital but rarely discussed stage in the UK’s rave evolution

It’s just gone midnight and the dancefloor at Mossy’s, a two-floor nightclub above the Harbour Inn in Lowestoft, is heaving with life. Andrew ‘Richie’ Riches...

DJ Mag's weekly Solid Gold series examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In our latest edition, Ben Cardew revisits Daft Punk's...

It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that dance music entered a brave new world on February 26, 2001, when Daft Punk...

Infographic After All...

While we patiently wait for news of what Daft Punk will do next (it’s been just over three years their last LP 'Random Access Memories')...

Castlemorton 1992: photographing the Illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever

It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...

DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this month's edition, to mark...

‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’ was the creation of the fevered imagination and unique musical mind of Richard D James, an artist who’s gone under a...

Premiere: Nur Jaber ‘Dance Dance (With The Morning Light)’

Nur Jaber pays tribute to Berlin’s “chaos, darkness and beauty” with four tracks of storming techno and subtle trance

Nur Jaber will release a new EP, ‘In My Memory’, via her own OSF label this month. Listen to the closing track ‘Dance Dance (With...

The techno DJ and producer announced the campaign via Instagram last week

Rebekah has launched a new campaign, #ForTheMusic.

The techno DJ and producer took to Instagram last week to reveal a new campaign against sexual harassment...