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You might think that the UK festival scene is over-saturated, and in many senses it is with more choice than ever for the seasoned cider...

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This month's essential tunes

When you absolutely, positively must decimate the dance floor, these are the tunes you need..

Best Of British: Best Dance Single - Jamie Jones 'Summertime' (Crosstown Rebels)

Hot Natured: Jamie Jones is on fire

Jamie Jones will now have to get rid of the words 'rising star' that have stuck in front of his name in print like particularly...

Best Of British: Best Breakthrough Producers - Instra:Mental

The Second Coming: the finest d&b seduction

'Breakthrough' producers of the year Instra:Mental may be, yet Damon Kirkham and Alex Green are no overnight success story. For the first records bearing the...

Lewis Dene's Inside Track

More inside knowledge on the freshest tracks across the board...

Greg Stainer's 'Long Verb' on Kinky Malinki is one of those irritably catchy instrumentals that just reeks of crossover potential and smacks of instant familiarity...

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DJ Mag's top tracks of 2021

We've switched up our end-of-year coverage this year. Instead of ranked countdowns, we've asked 40 contributors to pick their favourite albums, tracks and compilations from...

This was the year many dance music scenes, industries and communities started to claw back everything that was lost in 2020. Elusive and secretive UK...

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Premiere: Laenz ‘Choices’

Brooklyn’s Laenz delivers five cuts of hauntological club experimentation on Woozy, with a remix from Hemlock Recordings’ Untold

Laenz will release a new EP, ‘After Sunset’, via the Woozy label this month. Listen to ‘Choices’ below. The Brooklyn artist debuts on Ireland’s outpost...

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Premiere: Mani Festo ‘Machine’

Mani Festo debuts on HAVEN with four cuts of classic hardcore-inspired techno and a remix from Peder Mannerfelt

Mni Festo will release a new EP, ‘Hunterr’, this week via New Zealand’s HAVEN label. Listen to ‘Machine’ below. The London-based DJ and producer follows...

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Premiere: Hassan Abou Alam ‘Lost In A Jar Of Thyme’

Hassan Abou Alam steps up on Nehza Records with four cuts of frosty, bass-heavy techno

Hassan Abou Alam will release a new EP, ‘Ice’, via Parisian label Nehza Records this week. Listen to ‘Lost In A Jar Of Thyme’ below...

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Premiere: Carlton Doom ‘Life on Marble (ft. Emby)’

Belfast’s Carlton Doom closes his new EP on Cheeky Music Group with a galactic ambient flourish featuring MC Emby

Carlton Doom debuts on London’s Cheeky Music Group this month with ‘The Lost Tracks: Blue Galaxy’ EP. Listen to the closing track, ‘Life on Marble...

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Premiere: Strick ‘Drunk at Laser Quest’

Strick debuts on NKC’s Even The Strong with four cuts of rolling, funky club music and “OG hard drum”

Ontario’s Strick will release a new EP via NKC’s Even The Strong label in July. Listen to ‘Laser Quest’ below. Though it was written while...

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Premiere: Aeondelit ‘Anima Minima’

Manizales Colombia’s Aeondelit debuts on Sadan Records with four cuts of cinematic club experimentation. Hear the title track now

Aeondelit will release a new EP via Tel Aviv label Sadan on 17th March. Debuting on the label with four cuts of cinematic club music...

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Fatboy Slim shares new single, ‘Role Model’, via Southern Fried Records: Listen

Fatboy Slim’s devilishly catchy new single, ‘Role Model’, marks 500 releases for his storied Southern Fried Records label

Fatboy Slim is gearing up to release the 500th single on his Southern Fried Records label, ‘Role Model’, later this week. Have an exclusive first...

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I Hate Models Le Bon Air festival set cancelled over private jet request

"We never asked the festival to cover any of these costs"

I Hate Models has confirmed he will no longer play Le Bon Air Festival. The French techno artist had been due to perform at the...

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Grassroots music venues: MPs call for arena gig ticket levy to support independent spaces

“It is time that the government brought together everyone with a stake in the industry’s success," said MP Dame Caroline Dinenage

MPs have called for an arena gig ticket levy to help support grassroots venues. On Friday (10th May), a government report by the Department of...