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We talk to DAM FUNK about musical evolution, how music can offer escape, and Los Angeles' distinctive sound...
Amen, hallelujah and you’re absolutely goddamned right: Damon G. Riddick AKA DAM FUNK is spot on in both his diagnosis and proposed curative to...
Mixed up in The Hague
It's impossible to overstate The Hague's impact on dance music. In the early '90s, this small city in northern Holland crafted a bastardised version of the sounds bubbling out of Detroit, a ravey mash of jacking house and techno that, at the time, sounded almost impossibly futuristic.
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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, Milan’s Elisa Bee spotlights slamming house, techno, acid and electro
We challenge Claptone with our list of straight shooter questions, and he takes them on with a unearthly ease...
Words: Joe Roberts
Hidden by a gold-beaked mask and top hat, Claptone is the mysterious deep house DJ and producer who has soared above his...
Rinse FM ring the changes with Richy Ahmed comp...
Once known simply as the bastion of underground, sub driven music, taking in everything from dubstep, grime and garage to hardcore and jungle, these days Kode 9's Rinse FM are expanding into every arena of electronic music – and beyond.
Long-time electronic overlord Sasha has summoned all his creative powers to unleash his most spellbinding mix compilation yet.
Barely a week goes by without some muso or other declaring the death of the mix CD. And you can understand why, given the proliferation of free mixes that pop up like pop-ups each and every day on the worldwide web. Once every four or so years, though, all that changes, people forget to argue and unite in appreciation of the form once more.
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With his house-focused project Jack Back, David Guetta has returned to the sound that first got him fired up about dance music. In his DJ Mag...
Our festival guide looks to Europe...
After a close encounter in a techno-themed Death Star, Richard Norris and Martin Dubka’s project Circle Sky was born...
WORDS: Declan McGlynn
PICS: Richard Stow
Duos are nothing new to Richard Norris. As one half of the hugely successful ’90s act The Grid, he...
We catch up Fatima to talk about the theme behind the album, her musical roots, and more...
Fatima Al Qadiri is as difficult to classify as her vast productions. She could simultaneously be deemed a visual artist, academic instigator, journalist (as a...
Amon Tobin's evolved "Two Fingers" project
Amon Tobin started out experimenting with a double cassette player and ended up piloting the world's most mind-blowing live show.
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Cakes Da Killa’s sound is always evolving — and his new LP, the jazz-kissed ‘Black Sheep’, is the latest step in the NYC-based rapper’s musical maturation. Produced alongside his longtime collaborator Sam Katz, it might be his best yet. Bruce Tantum learns more
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Released on 30th January 1989, New Order’s fifth album is a sun-flushed pinnacle of dance rock, directly inspired by the hedonistic energy of Ibiza’s burgeoning club scene of the time. 35 years on, with the help of the album’s engineer Michael Johnson, Ben Cardew reflects on its legacy, and its influence on the acid house era
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Manchester's Happy Mondays drew influence from funk, house, and psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound. Here, Ben Cardew explores the lasting legacy of their 1990 album, ‘Pills ’N’ Thrills And Bellyaches’, which dropped in the midst of the Baggy takeover, and defined an era
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DJ Mag Ibiza catches up with Arielle Free to discuss her debut residency on the White Isle, and her perfect weekend on the island