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Cassettes are more popular than they’ve been for years, opening up countless doors for dance music fans, producers and DJs. DJ Mag finds out why...

(Note: Since this article was originally published in January 2018 a new report showed that cassette sales in the UK have risen by 90% in...

Bushwacka and Danny Rampling headline the opening night...

 

An acid house invasion, dubbed 'Dance 88/89', is heading to Ibiza every Wednesday this summer thanks to Dave Vincent and Sankeys Ibiza.

Starting May...

Vinyl is more popular than it’s been in years, and wax-only labels are seen as some of the best in dance music. But is our...

We're still deep in the midst of a resurgence in vinyl culture. Vinyl sales continue to rise year on year, up 12% in 2018, and vinyl-only...

Avicii’s death last year shocked the dance community and laid bare the serious problems surrounding mental health in the music industry. Now, his father Klas has set up...

A year after the death of Avicii, and his suicide continues to stand as a symbol for the failings of the electronic music industry to...

IMS 2024 Business Report

Strong growth across live and recorded reflects rocketing demand, but artists are finding bookings harder to get, and gender inequality remains widespread 

The 2024 IMS Business Report was published yesterday, Wednesday 24th April, and shows the dance music industry is now valued at $11.8 billion, up 17%...

Watch a new five-part documentary series, The Evolution of Black British Music

The first episode highlights jungle's Hackney roots with revered originators Fabio & Grooverider, Roni Size, Goldie and more

There's a new documentary series highlighting the Black origins of British dance and electronic music. 'The Evolution of Black British Music' is a five-part series...

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In this excerpt from Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music, author and DJ Mag contributing editor Ben Murphy explores the use of found sounds in dance music as a means of examining and expressing cultural heritage in our surroundings

At its most cutting edge, dance music is a laboratory of sonic experimentation. Field recordings, foley and samples from the real world have long been...

As events begin to reschedule dates for 2021, and with some selling out months in advance, the practise of ticket touting is once again an...

Electronic music artists, venues and promoters are failing to do enough to protect fans from online touts, who are selling tickets for more than 10...

Best known among dance music fans for collaborating with Daft Punk on ‘Discovery’s ‘One More Time’ and ‘Too Long’, Romanthony's ‘Romanworld’ found the US producer's...

On the face of it, ‘Romanworld’ looks like a pretty conventional electronic music album. Released in 1996 by UK indie Azuli, it rounds up 12...

Raves are back, according to the British mainstream press. But did they ever go away?

Word in the British press recently is that rave is back!

But word on the underground is that it never went away - with the...

A new club project will see an old brewery warehouse in Manchester transformed into a rave paradise.

Forget purpose-built superclubs - an old brewery in central Manchester will be the heartbeat for cutting-edge dance music when the city's Warehouse Project launches on...

The radio show aired its last episode on New York's WNYU station back in March

Tim Sweeney has relaunched his long-running Beats In Space radio show on a new home, the Apple Music 1 station.

Having aired 1,000 broadcasts across...

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)...

The project has been launched alongside an exclusive mix by DJ Lag

War Child UK has launched a new fundraising platform with a focus on underground music.

The project, dubbed The Right To Dance, will, a press...

Hundreds sign to say why they want Brazilian DJs at the World Cup

Hundreds of Brazilian dance music fans have been signing the DJ Mag petition to get some dance music DJs playing at the World Cup.

DJ...