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The Met police sent a request for them to remain anonymous...

A judge has reportedly ruled that the Metropolitan police should not be able to keep the identity of the undercover police officers that investigated fabric...

Local authorities in Sydney have been trying to shut it down...

An Australian politician has put forward a proposal to relocate the Defqon 1 festival to Canberra from its current Sydney base. 

The move comes in...

Throughout the pandemic, grassroots activists and nightlife representatives have worked tirelessly to create a more sustainable, accessible and protected environment for dance music. DJ Mag...

Bristol has had an advisory night-time panel since 2018, where nightclubs meet with people from licensing, planning and musician’s unions. It’s one thing to have...

The Danish DJ/producer sits down to answer some tough questions...

Billing his sound as “romantic techno”, Kölsch is a name that many clubbers know and love. He’s had two massive LPs on ultra-cool German imprint Kompakt...

The book’s original soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald will also be released on vinyl for the first time

A 1989 novel set in the London underground acid house scene, Trip City, is set to be republished this year by Velocity Press.

The cult...

Drum and bass don talks about 'FabricLive 58'

As colourful as the canvases he paints every morning, Goldie is one of dance music's most irrepressible characters.

With a CV that covers conductor, ballroom...

Farringdon club will no longer be required to use sniffer dogs & ID scanning

Fabric has won its appeal against additional security measures imposed by Islington council on its license. 

Last December, the council voted to add a number...

Talks from Toolroom, The Drum, DJ Mag & more...

Tokyo Dance Music Event (TDME) is the first dance music conference of its kind in Japan, and is set to welcome journalists, producers and tastemakers...

We review the sequel to the cult classic...

Coming out of the Cineworld IMAX on London’s Leicester Square after the first UK showing of T2: Trainspotting, the critical mutterings are about ‘a nostalgia-fest’...

MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum & bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...

“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” 
Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.

DJ also attacks failed drug policing...

Howie B has condemned the Police for their handling of fabric, both in the current case involving the deaths of two 18-year-olds from drug overdose...

The US legend was detained whilst travelling on tour in Japan...

David Morales has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of being in possession of MDMA – the psychoactive chemical in ecstasy – in Japan, police have...

Funk-dripped drum & bass head plays us his most inspiring tracks

Always that most steadfastly independent genre, today drum & bass is splintered into a panoply of micro camps. In one corner, the giant, fizzy-pop electro chords and high fructose rushes of labels like Hospital; in another, the clipped, dark minimalism and sub bass caverns of its most underground soldiers, the Critical crew.

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