Eighteen months ago, some of Avalon Emerson’s wishes came true. The first was for 2020 to be “the year of prioritising sleep”, during which she...
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For their second album, Hamburg's disco-sampling duo Session Victim decamped to San Francisco and discovered a new way of working with analogue synths, drum machines...
It's great dance music is so big now that your mum hums Disclosure. What isn't so great is that because dance music is so popular...
A Basement, a Red Light District and a Feeling
DJ Mag hit the Amsterdam Dance Event where the Dutch spirit of libertarianism has helped turn it's DJs, producers and clubs into a world beating force...
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Before COVID turned the world upside down, Avalon Emerson was so busy DJing, touring, producing and remixing, she was close to burnout — but the...
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After a six year hiatus, TNGHT are back. DJ Mag speaks to Hudson Mohawke and Lunice about creative freedom, EDM, and barking in the studio
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After first breaking through over a decade ago with bassline hit ‘Manny Man’, Manchester MC Murkz has returned revitalised with a new sound. Ahead of a...
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Part of a collective of East London MCs pushing UK drill into new territory, V9 (pronounced Venom) speaks to DJ Mag's Rob McCallum about his...
DJmag.com chatted to Dutch DJ Sander Kleinenberg about his new project, and the future of DJing.
"I'm a bit depressed today," admits Dutch DJ Sander Kleinenberg. "I've spent all day listening to new tunes that people have sent me, and 90%...
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NAFF presents Naïve, Terminal V and Bristol's Simple Things top this month's heady list...
It has been a month of difficult decisions for many. Not least the DJ Mag team, who had to try and figure out how...
We run through all the cool new effects on Vestax's latest offering.
Vestax have dressed the 280 in their classic black style and made it very intuitive to use. Everything is placed where it should be and...
A rising number of producers are making music that creates a soundtrack to those calmer moments in life. DJ Mag investigates...
Summer is in full swing, Ibiza still rocks and festival season has blossomed into hundreds of live-music infused explosions, happening in far-flung spots all over...
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From rapping in Portuguese to being repped by Richie Hawtin, Joyce Muniz has proved that you can do it all..
Remember the time that Richie Hawtin got hold of your unreleased track and played it on his Ibiza Boiler Room? Me neither, but that's exactly...
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DJ Mag finds itself in a desert, 200km from the nearest city and surrounded by enormous soundsystems for Monegros Festival, but is the music as far out as the location?
It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...
“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...