Lagos’ DJ Neptune has been at the forefront of Nigeria’s music scene for over a decade. The award winning artist rose to prominence as backing...
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From Amsterdam to London
25-year-old Dutch DJ Hardwell was crowned the new No.1 DJ in the world at a massive DJ Mag party at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam on Saturday 19th October. Hardwell, real name Robbert van de Corput, knocked fellow Dutchman — and five-times winner — Armin Van Buuren off the top spot to become the youngest winner in the Top 100 DJs poll in its 20-year history.
About +1 Pacha Ibiza residency
Solomun residency is probably the most controversial news of the season this year, so naturally we wanted to hear more...
The on-the-road diary of the world's top DJs treading the globe
What happens on tour doesn't always stay on tour. Aside from making his name as one of Europe's most wanted house talents worldwide over the past 12 months, the Diynamic boss is also known as being one of the most playful in the game. Laid back, cheerful and always up for a laugh, Hamburg's Bosnian-born boogie-loving selector is regarded as an affable gentle giant by those who know him, so we asked him to spill the beans...
Beatboxer incorporates Twitter suggestions into show
One man beatbox band Beardyman sets off on his first solo tour on 28th April with a head of ideas, a bag full of gizmos...
Dublin's annual DEAF festival unites global electronica pioneers with homegrown talent
WATCH your back Sonar. Organically growing since 2002, the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (or DEAF as it’s known) is fast becoming one of the essential...
This issue's hottest four names in dance music
Mikix The Cat
Parisian electro riot starter…
A self-declared “bass bandit puttin’ suckas in fear,” Paris’ Mikix The Cat has been busy putting France’s club...
Swedish producer Axel Boman is like nobody else in dance music. With a wicked sense of humour, both feet on the dancefloor and an ear...
“I read this interview with Avicii the other day in the Guardian,” Axel Boman tells DJ Mag. “And the Guardian interviewer was like, 'Avicii's experiment...
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Nigeria’s DJ Neptune spotlights his recent favourite Afrobeats, Afropop and amapiano tracks
Here's the big tracks that killed it at this year's Groovefest...
Now in its third year and set in a luxury five-star resort in tropical paradise, Groovefest is constantly growing and improving. 2015 was no exception...
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Plugin Boutique's latest offering comes in the form of Carbon...
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Tommie Sunshine writes a tribute to the Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles
Francis Nicholls was born January 1955 in The Bronx, New York. But Frankie Knuckles, as we came to know him, was born in March 1977...
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Hit-maker, label boss, global tastemaker and five-time winner of the Top 100 DJs, Armin van Buuren is a certified legend of electronic music. Having risen...
Armin van Buuren doesn’t really do interviews anymore. He’s reached the upper echelons of his chosen career, and doesn’t really need to. The “trance overlord,”...
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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...