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Emerging technology, BODYHEAT, promises to make clubs more carbon neutral. Sophie Lou Wilson speaks to those behind it, the first club to trial it (SWG3 Glasgow), and others about how it works, as well as its potential and limits

Fifteen minutes’ walk from the site of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, there’s a nightclub. SWG3 is an independent venue that has put on...

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...

With Miller Genuine Draft

The remix is an essential part of dance music tradition. Whether it is creating live edits in front of a crowd or preparing bootlegs to...

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...

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...

Is dance music suffocating under a wave of beige productions or are we just jaded? Harold Heath argues that artists need to take more risks...

The kick-drum drops out, reach towards the ceiling, the air is filled with whoops and whistles. Then a long whoosh of white noise simultaneously builds the...

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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...

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We look at some of the best records shops and clothing and book stores to check out during the industry’s annual Amsterdam Dance Event

From October 19th to the 23rd, annual Dutch music conference Amsterdam Dance Event will present 1,000 events at over 200 venues, bringing hundreds of international...

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"This is real world – real electronic music dance concert – validation that the bass really does make people dance more"

Low-end bass makes people dance more, according to a new report from a group of neuroscientists published in the Current Biology journal. The new study...

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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...

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...

"His work in the early days with Le Funk Mob and Etienne de Crecy gave French electronic music a gold standard that fulfilled its promise...

It was announced earlier today that legendary producer and French house pioneer Philippe ‘Zdar’ Cerboneschi has died.

The news was confirmed in a statement from...

Blames dance music’s demise on “spineless” hipsters...

One week on from his final rave, Bloc co-founder George Hull had some choice words for the “spineless” hipsters who he blames for the demise...

We headed to Take Note for a day of panels & demos...

It’s a cold and grey Saturday morning and there's an icy gale blowing down London's famous Brick Lane. DJ Mag is making our way to...

For 20 years, Simon Dunmore's Defected has been dedicated to the finest in house music, from its label and numerous associated imprints, to its events...

“I’m a collector of labels. My ambition was for people to have a Defected rack in their collections in the same way they'd have a...