“I’m finally home.” Those three words are among the first that the South African DJ and producer Palesa Desiree Shilabje utters when DJ Mag catches...
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Our first print mag of the season has hit the White Isle...
Here at DJ Mag HQ, there’s nothing we love more than a cheeky trip to the White Isle. We love it so much we’ve been...
A collection of anthems that demonstrate the festival’s intricate programming...
Movement rolled into The Garden in Tisno for the inaugural edition of its Croatia edition with an impeccable roster of house and techno selectors spinning...
We caught up with New York duo The Knocks during CMJ week...
If you do something long enough, no matter what the reaction the outside world has in the beginning, trends will keep changing, and the best...
Quintino tells us about his seven most essential tracks...
Quinten van den Berg could serve as the poster boy for electronic dance music in 2014. Known to the masses as Quintino, the DJ-producer’s chiseled...
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Shadow Child Emerges from behind Dave Spoon
Pseudonyms have always been prevalent in dance music, but sometimes the new name adopted by an artist for a one-off track resonates so well that...
Win a VIP trip to join Leeds phenomenon Filth for their massive third birthday session with Faithless, Style Of Eye, Alex Metric and Foamo
If any upcoming promoters wanted a case-study of how to build things from a small word-of-mouth session into a globe-trotting party brand, then the phenomenon...
This issue's hottest four names in dance music
Signer
Ethereal electronic ace…
Where do old ravers go when the serotonin runs dry and the lights of the lasers lose their sparkle? If you're...
This issue's hottest four names in dance music
Mikix The Cat
Parisian electro riot starter…
A self-declared “bass bandit puttin’ suckas in fear,” Paris’ Mikix The Cat has been busy putting France’s club...
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Soaring ascents, the kind that can take an artist from obscurity to stardom in what seems to be the blink of an eye, don’t occur often, in dance music or elsewhere – those who are lucky enough to have that experience often disappear just as quickly. But there’s little chance of a quick fade for South Africa’s Palesa Desiree Shilabje, the DJ and producer known to the world as DESIREE, who in just a few short years has proved to be one of the international festival circuit’s most exciting new stars. Here, Bruce Tantum hears her story, and about how her evolution through music has been as organic as they come
Features
In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, CORIN spotlights “glitched beats, ecstatic trance synths, heavenly vocals and sci-fi realms”
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"We don’t think we’ve ever made anything that sounds remotely like this"
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Italian duo Mind Against deliver an immersive and precisely-designed mix of contemporary house and techno with a nearly spiritual lilt for fabric presents series