When Native Instruments first released Maschine, it was attempting to fill a gap. Computers had become powerful enough to supersede hardware-packed studios that came before...
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Native Instruments’ Maschine+ is an ambitious project; remodelling the popular hardware and software groovebox combo to operate as a standalone production unit. DJ Mag's Digital...
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As dance music’s top-heavy, tour-focused infrastructure crumbles, people across the industry are wondering how new revenue streams can emerge to support artists during and after...
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Award-winning radio presenter and proponent of the diversity-focused Radio Silence movement, Kay-Lee Golding, explores the lack of Black representation in mainstream UK radio
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The DJ/producer takes us on a tour of his hometown and nearby Doncaster, and tells DJ Mag how they’ve influenced his music and work ethic...
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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...
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Before his death in 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the American gay underground's most thrilling dance music, from chart-topping disco to radical club tracks...
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Through her radio shows, DJ sets, parties and records, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy has encouraged dancers and listeners to enjoy the details and synchronicities of music. DJ Mag’s Anna Wall meets...
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Roland’s 909 drum machine is responsible for the rhythm of house and techno, and countless classics of dance and pop. Exactly 35 years after its...
If there’s one instrument that faithfully captures the true spirit and essence of electronic music, it’s the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer: a machine that has...
DVS1 is a true icon. He may have reached the top of the techno tree by a somewhat circuitous route — involving time spent in...
As brutal techno echoes around Amsterdam’s Warehouse Elementenstraat, DVS1 stands on the DJ booth looking perplexed, rotating the subs that line the railing high above...
From Ibiza to Berlin to Oslo, Germany’s Anja Schneider is embracing her newfound freedom with a brand new label and her first solo album in...
“Try this, it’s delicious.” Anja Schneider scoops a forkful of melon and cheese onto a plate, pushing it across the table with a nod. The...
Sam Divine, Dennis Ferrer, Sonny Fodera...
When Simon Dunmore left his major label A&R job with AM:PM, the dance offshoot of A&M Records, to start his own independent dance label, even...
DJ Mag caught up with this inspirational figure at the end of another great year...
“I hear things in pieces.”
Kerri Chandler is on the phone in his studio, talking about how he processes music after thirty-plus years in the...
The artists primed for big things in 2013!
If you thought 2012 was a fine vintage for speaker-cracking sounds, get a load of these lot. They're some of the cats who'll be making the dancefloor an intoxicating place to be this year. Serving up everything from deep disco vibes to subterranean bass darkness, these are the DJ/producers destined to make a splash in 2013...
After a life-changing epiphany at Nevada's Burning Man festival, dance music icon Carl Cox is back with a bang, with an incredible new two-CD mix...
Given his illustrious career, now into its fourth decade lest we forget, you'd be forgiven for assuming that Carl Cox was long past the point...