At the start of 2020, everything was looking great for Green Valley. The Brazilian venue, which is more like a festival experience, had been voted...
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Green Valley in Brazil experienced a double disaster last year. First came the COVID-19 pandemic, then the venue itself was destroyed in June by a...
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With an IRL event impossible this year, the team behind Belgian mega-festival Tomorrowland created a revolutionary interactive virtual world in under three months. Here’s how...
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Adam Beyer is one of the biggest names in techno, renowned as much for his DJ sets as his highly successful Drumcode record label. Ahead...
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From her first release as Octo Octa in 2011, there’s always been an element of rapturous freedom inherent to Maya Bouldry-Morrison’s music. But since coming out as a trans woman and meeting her life/work partner Eris Drew, that feeling is rendered in brighter shades than ever. Taking time out from a European tour, Bouldry-Morrison details her road to house music happiness
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As events begin to reschedule dates for 2021, and with some selling out months in advance, the practise of ticket touting is once again an...
Techno rises in the heart of the Midwest and with it, a bold call to action.
DJ Mag meets Lisa Smith on a winter afternoon in The Black Madonna’s crowded Chicago apartment. A large film crew is staging lighting...
The year's essential kit
After the success of the DJ Mag Tech Awards of 2012 where we saw over 100,000 votes cast on the bits of kit that are...
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More than a club night and record label, Rupture has become a nexus point for the global jungle/drum & bass community, helping to galvanise a new generation while re-energising seasoned heads. Founders and life partners Mantra and Double O tell DJ Mag’s Ben Hindle about its evolution, and the importance of championing inclusivity and musical freedom
With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...
Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'. Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.
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Saint Petersburg’s rising star in jungle, footwork and hybrid bass music, A.Fruit, records a 100% productions mix for the Recognise series, and chats to Kamila...
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Producing under the alias Renegade, Ray Keith delivered an instant classic in 1994's ‘Terrorist’, one of the most recognisable jungle tunes of all time. Its thumping chopped...
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Black Science Orchestra’s Trammps-sampling, Frankie Knuckles approved 1992 cut ‘Where Were You?’ marked a key moment in UK house music, and embodied a sound that...
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Ron Trent has a deep understanding of electronic music. Beginning his production career in his teens, the venerated Chicago resident has travelled through techno, deep house and Afro house over the years. His latest album ‘WARM: What Do The Stars Say To You’, produced with a live band, demonstrates the duality of his work: it’s futuristic and somehow ancient, cosmic and aquatic. DJ Mag's Ria Hylton catches up with the Chicago house legend to learn more
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Since beatboxing first arrived on British shores from the US in the ’80s, the passion and innovation of UK acts have taken the art to unimaginable heights. Jak Hutchcraft charts the development of the scene, speaking to boundary breakers and educators, and finds it in ruder health than ever
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Growth of the festival industry shows no sign of slowing, but the sector faces more issues than ever before. Emissions and waste need urgent attention...