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As part of our end of year and end of decade coverage, we've written about our favourite albums, tracks and compilations. Here, DJ Mag staff...

DJs and producers are supposed to be on the same side. For decades now, producers have made the music, and DJs have played it. Simply...

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The channel will serve as an outlet to showcase the talent of Point Blank students

Over the past 20 years, some incredible musicians, producers, DJs...

Eats Everything, Seth Troxler, more speak out...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as America's 45th President today, and the dance music world has taken to Twitter to share their thoughts about...

Disclosure, Rudimental, Calvin Harris and Daft Punk up for awards

Dance music has seldom fared very well at the Brits, the UK music industry's annual awards show. Indeed, the Brits did away with the Best...

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fabric nightclub announced that it set to reopen after a deal was struck with the Metropolitan Police and Islington council at Highbury Magistrates Court yesterday...

Disco Sucks and the birth of house music

Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...

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The London music force and art curation collective present an audiovisual installation — featuring Nia Archives, Loraine James, Roska and more — at 180 The Strand next month

London art curation collective fynn studio and SHERELLE are putting on an exhibition that celebrates Black and LGBTQI+ artists, activists and creatives. The audiovisual installation...

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A new online archive compiling resources about Black music history has launched.

The Black Music History Library was created by journalist Jenzia Burgos and aims...

Dance Can't Nice is running at London's Horniman Museum

A free exhibition exploring South London's Black music scene has opened at the Horniman Museum.

Curated by Adem Holness, 'Dance Can't Nice: Exploring London's Black...

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Set up by Ruben Platt and Balraj Samrai back in 2008, Swing Ting started out life as a popular club night in Manchester.

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A warehouse in Oakland, California, known as the Ghost Ship, was hit by a devastating fire during a party on Friday night (2nd December).

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Adam Beyer, Pan-Pot, Gorgon City respond...

DJs, promoters and organisers have responded to The BPM Festival shootings, that left four dead and 12 injured when a gunman opened fire at elrow's...

The attack at Reina nightclub left 39 people dead...

A New Year’s Eve party at Reina nightclub in Istanbul was attacked by a lone gunman in the early hours of New Year’s Day, in...

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Even as pandemic restrictions have lifted, and clubs and festivals have returned, the spectre of coronavirus lingers for many due to the debilitating impact of long Covid. Here, Dhruva Balram speaks to people in the dance music industry about how the effects of long Covid, and a lack of understanding around it, have impacted them, and asks whether it should be recognised as a disability

“My energy levels have never returned to what they were,” says London-based DJ and broadcaster DEBONAIR. “I don’t have the muscle strength and energy that...

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...