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A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

Lady Shaka

Global club beats, queer femme energy and Pacific Island identity come together in Lady Shaka’s joyful Recognise mix.  Ahead of her appearance at Sónar Festival this month, the DJ and interdisciplinary artist speaks to Anna Cafolla  about building connections around the world, uplifting her communities, and her Pasifika club sound

“Kia ora!” Lady Shaka greets New Zealand’s debut Boiler Room show. This is FILTH, a radical club community that centres QTBIPOC, and their first post-Covid...

Selections: Roska

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections. This week, UK Funky don Roska spotlights bright percussion and breaks, Carnival bangers, minimal sub-shakers and more

Roska’s name is synonymous with dedication. For over a decade, the South London DJ and producer has been a champion of the UK funky sound...

Selections: Manni Dee

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, Manni Dee spotlights forward-thinking rave rhythms from across the globe

As a DJ and producer, Manni Dee’s approach to music balances brutality with rhythmic experimentation, trippy melodies and leftfield musicality. His 2021 album for Perc...

Starting life as a way of supporting the artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, as well as releases supporting other causes and initiatives...

Clubs around the world are shut, and opportunities to find new music out in the wild have been ripped from under our feet as a...

UK-born, Norway-based producer up a whopping 38 places...

Alan Walker is officially the highest climber in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2017 poll after climbing 38 places up to the number 17...

Annie Mac Melle Brown

The summer anthem receives a piano-led stepping house re-rub 

Melle Brown and Annie Mac's 'Feel About You' has been remixed by DJ Koze. Check it out below. The original track, released earlier this year...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From astral ambience and minimal grooves to frenzied footwork and techno, here's...

Rachel Lyn 

Rachel Lyn is the founder of Modular Gang, an event series and collective dedicated to modular synth performances. Originally from London, but now...

With sizzling electro, crunching breakbreats, frenzied footwork and much more in between, Nikki Nair records a jaw dropping productions mix for the Recognise series, and...

This year our flagship publication, DJ Mag UK, remains at the forefront of dance music, with a focus on established and up-and-coming underground talent, we...

<p>Hercules &amp; Love Affair’s new album is a neo disco, four-to-the-floor opus&nbsp;</p>

It might be a long time since the word discotheque was shortened to ‘disco’ and nightclubbing became ‘clubbing’, then ‘raving’, but in all that time...

Carl Cox's 7 most important tracks

Carl Cox started DJing when he was just nine-years-old at the request of his dad, who would let him stay up late if he picked...

As we enter a new decade, the ways in which we define electronic music styles are rapidly changing. Chal Ravens explores the etymological evolution of...

Bickering over genre definitions is a time-honoured tradition in dance music. One of the weirder etymological developments of recent years is the changing meaning of...

DJ Mag meets Róisín Murphy on the brink of her new LP, 'Hairless Toys'...

Róisín Murphy is the ultimate career woman. From teenage runaway to cult sensation, the mother of two has managed to truly have it all, thanks to...

DJmag round-up

With Britain’s Indian summer turning out to be more like the Asian monsoon season, there’s a sense of trepidation as we get out of the...