As one of the founders of Night Slugs, James Connolly — formerly known as L-Vis 1990 — helped usher in the post-dubstep era of deconstructed...
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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...
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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...
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Dance System pens a club-ready love letter to Daft Punk’s filter house and the Chicago sounds that inspired it on his new album, ‘In Your System’
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Ever since the revelations in Hollywood about film producer Harvey Weinstein, and the subsequent #MeToo stories of sexual misconduct, the dance music world has been...
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“To be honest, it’s easier to come up with a time something sexist DIDN’T happen. There are so many instances I don’t know...
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He owes it all to Tiësto apparently...
Martin Garrix has revealed that he was inspired to pursue a career in dance music after watching Tiësto’s iconic set during the Athens Olympics opening...
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If you’re telling people to “keep politics out of music”, you’re missing the point. Here, DJ Mag’s Harold Heath explains why politics are an integral...
WORLDWIDE APPEAL: Label owner, producer, Radio One and club DJ, dance music ambassador: Gilles has done it all. And he’s still doing it...
“Representing British club culture is an important part of what I’ve always done,” says Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson. “At the moment I play almost...
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Body Movements, the UK’s first queer electronic music festival, took place in London’s Hackney Wick last weekend. Helmed by DJ Saoirse and Clayton Wright, and...
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Street-hop is a sound from Lagos, Nigeria that mutates as it moves between different neighbourhoods; creating new beats, themes and dance crazes as it goes...
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Run by Save Our Scene UK, the weekend event featured a number of DJs and attracted crowds of maskless revellers
A Central London protest against the continued closure of the UK's nightlife scene attracted thousands of music fans and scene figures over the weekend.
Taking...
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It first happened at a media dinner about five years ago. I was sandwiched rather uncomfortably between two older international journalists — one from Amsterdam...
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He had been battling cancer
British-born, Berlin-based DJ/producer and writer Jonty Skrufff has passed away.
The news was shared by his partner and fellow Berlin DJ Fidelity Kastrow in a...
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Virtual Self, Jon Hopkins, Fisher and Justice have also been nominated...
The nominations for 2019’s Grammys have been revealed, with some exciting prospects getting the nod in the ‘Best Dance/Electronic’ categories.
In the ‘Best Dance Recording’...
“It’s my intention to pull the subject into electronic music"...
Jeff Mills reckons science fiction and the themes around futurism and how the human race might react to alien life could shape the dance music...
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An hour of impeccable Afro-house and tech from South Africa’s Kasango
Kasango’s mix for DJ Mag’s Radio 1 Dance residency is available to stream on demand now. Listen to it here, or via the BBC...