It now sounds like a DJ mix of the most widely-known Italo disco classics, but when it was released in 1999, I-F’s ‘Mixed Up In...
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Any collaboration between DJMag's favourite fruit-loop Roisin Murphy, ex of Moloko, and electro dons Mason, aka Iason Chronis and Coen Berrier, was always...
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Italo disco is everywhere again. But what does Italo even mean today, and is it at risk of being diluted into a catch-all term for anything with an '80s disco sparkle? Joe Roberts dives into the genre's history, and chats to some of its new devotees and longstanding champions about its ever-evolving sound
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Dispensing with hammering kick-drums in favour of a more expansive sound, Berlin-based Brit, Barker, has become one of Ostgut Ton’s most-celebrated artists in recent years. DJ Mag chats...
Magda talks women in dance music, new event series PERM and her just-launched tequila brand...
Words: DANI DEAHL Pics: CORNELIA THONHAUSER & LEANDRO QUINTERO
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Julia Toppin selects 10 essential documentaries that paint a portrait of 30 years of jungle drum & bass, charting the stories of its origins to...
The Detroit techno/house DJ/producer gives us the ten records that defined him...
Not many 12-year-olds grow up listening to Plastikman, or list hardcore metal heads Pantera – authors of the anthemic “Fucking Hostile” - alongside Jeff Mills...
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São Paulo's Cashu sprints through mutant dancehall, d&b, techno and more in her shapeshifting On Cue mix, and speaks to April Clare Welsh about the...
Basel brilliance from Life & Death, Music On and Link Miami Rebels...
Some things in life are certain: the sun will rise; parking is futile when you’re already late; and Art Basel Miami will be exhausting in...
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Throwing Snow’s prolific release log in 2018 has seen him veer from pummelling UK bass and half-time d&b to electrified techno and breaks. As the...
Ross Tones’ output strides a fine line between introspective and energised, often leaning hard on one side or the other, like a tightrope walker keeping...
We hook up with the Dutch teenage hotshot ahead of an appearance at Ultra in Miami...
Across the world right now are thousands of 17-year-old kids dreaming of making it big in the gold rush days of EDM, dance music's biggest...
We peer inside the world of Pan-Pot...
Some things in life just happen; the stars align or elements combine for a perfect chemical reaction. That's Pan-Pot. Meeting in their early 20s by...
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Released on 24th January 1994, Underworld’s third album (and first with DJ Darren Emerson) blended outlandish art-rock ideas with singular takes on house, techno and ambient music. Here, Ben Murphy reflects on its genre-fusing legacy
Raw beats and sub-low rumbles mixed with sugary melodies are DJ Q's calling card.
Ten years ago, DJ Q released his first 12”, 'Love Like This'. The track was a bassline stomper, a grimy slab of sub-low and brutal...
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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future