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Wu-Tang Clan

A reissue of the double cassette will also be available

Wu-Tang Clan have announced a 25th anniversary vinyl edition of their seminal 1997 album ‘Forever’. Released via Get On Down and Legacy Recordings, the collection...

It’s an all-star cast for the famous mix series’ last hurrah...

DJ Mag travels to the closest land mass to Antarctica on the planet to meet Gorillaz’s lead guitarist, Noodle, as the band’s bassist remains incarcerated...

People travel the immense distance to Patagonia for all manner of reasons: its jagged glacial peaks, untouched rivers and trekking on the scale that made...

Gideon Berger has co-created something amazing with Glastonbury Festival’s Block9 field, but it’s been somewhat to the detriment of his own DJ career. In recent...

It’s mid-summer 1994, and the first anti-Criminal Justice Bill demonstration in Trafalgar Square. There’s over 50,000 ravers packed into the area around the famous London landmark...

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When the South Bronx dance-punk outfit ESG released their Martin Hannett-produced debut EP in 1981, they had no idea how pivotal their stripped-back, funk-fueled sound would be on the evolution of hip-hop and house music: ‘UFO’ has been sampled over 500 times; ‘Moody’ was a staple in Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage sets. Four decades later, ahead of their set at Melting Pot & Optimo’s Queen’s Park Spring Weekender, Daniel Dylan Wray tells their story

One day in 1979, a young Renee Scroggins imagined what it would be like if a UFO landed in the housing projects of the South...

Mexico City’s Aire Libre independent radio station shuts down

Director Jose Álvarez announced the closure on Sunday, 21st August, the online station's last day of programming

Aire Libre is shutting down after four years, its director announced over the weekend. The Mexico City-based independent online radio station shared a statement by...

Inside the UK Afro house renaissance

The Afro house sound is an ever-growing presence in UK dance music, with new labels, club-nights and a dedicated radio station springing up. Alongside a mix from Mr Silk, Ria Hylton explores the sound’s history, and speaks to some of the scene’s key players about forging strong connections with their growing audiences, and their aim to nurture a unique UK Afro house identity

Afro house is steeped in the percussive materials of South Africa’s townships. For decades, its polyrhythms played out on traditional African instruments — bongos, congas...

Album of the Month: Kode9 ‘Escapology’

On his new album based on a work of sonic fiction, Hyperdub founder Kode9 creates a strange, uncertain vision of the future, brimming with ideas and club genre mutations

There’s been a conceptual thread running through much of Steve Goodman’s output since he first adopted the Kode9 name. Though the Scottish artist’s DJ sets...

How an adult version of Tetris kickstarted multiple musical revolutions 

How much credit can you give a tool for creating art? Surely it's like praising the paintbrush for a great painting, or the typewriter for...

Bitter Babe and Nick León release new EP, ‘Delirio’, on Club Romantico

The Miami duo merge Colombian guaracha, Venezuelan raptor house and the Afro-Dutch bubbling sound

Bitter Babe and Nick León have released a new collaborative EP, ‘Delirio’, on Florentino’s Club Romantico label. Check it out below. ‘Delirio’ finds the producers...

New “house and electronic” music club, Virgo, opens in Manhattan

The Lower East Side has a new 3,000-square foot nightclub fitted with a VOID soundsystem imported from the UK

There's a new nightclub in Manhattan aimed at "house and electronic" music fans. Virgo, located at 324 Grand Street on the Lower East Side, is...

Premiere: D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi ‘Liqourice Skritch’

D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi’s euphoric debut album moves nimbly from downtempo, techno and progressive house into electro and d&b

D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi will release a collaborative album, ‘Edge Of Innocence’, this month via Delicate Records. Listen to ‘Liqourice Skritch’ below. The debut...

An influx of dance festivals has led people to see the island’s potential as a party destination like the Balearics...

It’s summer 2013 and Mark Lawrence of the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) is driving from Malta International Airport with his family to their hotel...

Mysterious Journey Of A Lifetime

Taking Malaysians on a bigger, better and more exciting journey through the raveforests of Kuching, Mysterious World Music Festival is back in town with a...

Arriving in Miami means a lot to our cover star Eric Prydz – for more than one reason. The man who effortlessly makes underground house...

Going to Miami is a very big deal for Eric Prydz. Two years ago, the last time he was there, his massive track 'Pjanoo' became...