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Artists, DJs and industry figures have come together to call for urgent government action 

 

The UK Government have been urged to support clubs with specific funding through a new campaign, #LetUsDance.

Launched by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA)...

Techno would not exist as it does today without Kevin Saunderson. Some of the Detroit techno architect’s most revolutionary work has been released under the...

Techno is the language of machines speaking to each other, the vocabulary of shiny circuitry, the sound of the future in the here-and-now. But when...

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...

Coxy made the comments during a live Q&A at BMC with Alon Shulman

Carl Cox has slammed the UK government for saying the dance scene is not “viable” during a Q&A at Brighton Music Conference.

Following comments made...

Homobloc launches charity T-shirt collection with Róisín Murphy, Honey Dijon, more

Proceeds will go to Homobloc's charity partners, including LGBTQ+-focused organisations

Manchester event Homobloc is releasing a collection of charity T-shirts with help from Róisín Murphy, Honey Dijon and the promoter's local partner Feel Good Club...

Photo of an outdoor stage at Snowbombing Festival 2023

A £1 donation from every shirt sold goes directly to protecting children in conflict zones

Snowbombing Festival and iconic sportswear brand Meyba have teamed up to release a football shirt in aid of War Child UK. The limited edition shirts...

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A Darker Electricity is out next year through Velocity Press

The cofounder of UK rave soundsystem Spiral Tribe is writing a book about the '90s free party scene. Written by visual artist Mark Angelo Harrison...

‘90s rave crew Spiral Tribe’s live duo R-Zac reissue 1993 album of Free Party anthems: Listen

"These tracks represent the pivoting point between the music we recorded with Spiral Tribe in the UK, and what was to come," said the duo

‘90s rave crew Spiral Tribe’s live duo R-Zac have reissued their 1993 album of 'free party' anthems, 'Trailer Trax'. On July 8th, the UK production...

(Photo of Eris Drew and Octo Octa by Desmond Picotte)

Future records on the label will come from Helena Hauff, DJ Bone and others

London club fabric has launched a new label, fabric Originals. The new imprint, which will exist alongside fabric's in-house Houndstooth label and mix compilation series...

As dance music’s top-heavy, tour-focused infrastructure crumbles, people across the industry are wondering how new revenue streams can emerge to support artists during and after...

It’s been four months since COVID-19 sent dancers into deep freeze. With no sign of a vaccine, the suspicion is that clubs will stay closed...

Artificial intelligence, the doom mongers say, will make many human jobs obsolete, and some believe it will destroy the music industry too. But the flipside...

Picture this... It’s 2030, and the DJ Mag Top 100 has just been topped, for the first time ever, by an artist created with artificial...

Daft Punk return with rare 1997 live set stream on first anniversary of split: Watch

The duo have also released a special 25th anniversary deluxe edition of their seminal debut album, ‘Homework’

Daft Punk are livestreaming a rare, unmasked classic live set on Twitch to mark the first anniversary of their split. You can watch it here...

Collage of various images from panels and parties at ADE 2023

Amsterdam Dance Event returned earlier this month, with the world’s biggest electronic music conference delivering its usual, unrelenting whirlwind of parties, panels and so much more. Here’s a handful of highlights from DJ Mag’s week at ADE 2023

DJ Mag’s involvement with the ADE Lab — the conference’s four-day tech-focused programme that takes place in and around the Flemish Cultural Center de Brakke...

The Dirty Dozen top is available to buy online now 

The Prodigy have put a Keith Flint-inspired t-shirt on sale to raise money for mental health charity MIND. 

The new version of the iconic Dirty...

 The bosses of the crosses prove they're still the best in the business...

It's a warm, autumnal evening in south London and DJ Mag is on its way to Brixton Academy to see Justice perform live in the...