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Slowly and surreptitiously over the course of the last decades, a plague has infested and infected club land. It’s a disease that has eaten away at the core art of the DJ and at the very dynamics of almost any club night you care to attend.

French authorities have passed new legislation which is being labelled 'anti-rave'. 

The Senate gave approval to the new regulations late last night, Tuesday 22nd October...

Kraftwerk’s nostalgia trick

I’m going to tell you a little story about dancing — this is a dance music mag, after all. It’s 1991. I’m deep in some ramshackle Northern warehouse rave. I’m at one with the universe, have just had my sixth life-changing conversation of the evening and am now busy chatting with my fourth new best friend in the last hour.

“Forget ’88 to ’90. Acid house had died by then... this was a new phase,” recalls drum & bass don Fabio on his legendary residency...

Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...

“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove… One day Jack declared, "Let there be HOUSE!" and house music was born. And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all... Jack is the one that can bring nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House.”

EDM doesn't need rappers legitimising its stadium-sized stasis and banality

There are so many nonsensical phrases that people love blindly bandying about. You know the ones, the proverbial drivel that people throw around in states of cod-philosophical self-approbation, even if it actually makes about as much sense as Joey Barton’s Twitter feed.

Armand van Helden didn’t hold back when offering his perspective on the current expectations within DJ culture: “It’s all a no-brainer. They don’t have to...

Apple have killed off iTunes in the latest update to OS X called Catalina. It's being replaced by a new app called Music, and in...

Mysteryland 2017 served as a real-world testing grounds for the future of Red Cross’ disaster response methods. The tests were conducted with support from the...

A few months ago, three-time DMC-winning turntablist and DJ Mag HQ alumnus DJ Craze raised eyebrows everywhere when he proclaimed that ‘sync is your friend’...