It’s a grey, wet Tuesday morning in Berlin, and inside an unassuming building in Wedding, a fourth-floor apartment is buzzing with activity. It’s the home...
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The gatekeeping around DJ tech has to end...
Picture the scene: You’re wrapping up an incredible set, outstretched arms are begging for sweaty high-fives from the packed dancefloor; your plus-one's grinning wildly, eyes...
Watch the duo’s live performance of an exquisite song...
Once every generation or so, a live act comes along that knocks the breath out of an entire audience. Solomon Grey is one of those...
Interview with the Dub Police mainstay around his new mix comp
Alex Crawford, aka The Others, burst onto the dubstep scene back in 2007 when his track 'Africa VIP' featured on Caspa & Rusko's seminal Fabriclive...
The biggest tunes on the underground this month
Since winning Best Label at the DJ Mag Best of British Awards in 2011, Defected have continued to go from strength to strength. Adroit at raising their finger to detect the prevailing wind of change, they've earned their rep by transforming the stirrings of the underground into mainstream success, pushing the likes of Tensnake to even greater heights and introducing house legends such as MK, Murk and Kevin Saunderson to a new generation of clubbers.
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With an hour of “super fun but fucked up club tunes”, Mutualism and Leftovers’ BFTT lights up the Fresh Kicks series
“Super fun but fucked up” are the words BFTT uses to describe his DJ Mag Fresh Kicks mix. It’s a fair assessment. Over 60 minutes...
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Ibiza may be a small and perfectly formed island but with its many layers of hidden charms and nocturnal naughtiness it can be a tough...
1. Steady on son...
Even if you're only here for a week, like anything in life the Ibiza experience is at its best when you...
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A new initiative, started by the founder of Love Parade, aims to have Berlin's techno scene recognised as a cultural practice, supported and preserved by...
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From his foundational work in drum & bass and jungle as part of 4hero and Reinforced Records, to his myriad production aliases and ongoing work...
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Over the last decade, the Afro-Portuguese sound of Kuduro has travelled from the bairros of Lisbon to a global audience. DJ Mag's Anna Cafolla meets...
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For three decades, Yen Sung has been at the beating heart of Lisbon’s club scene. As a longstanding resident at Lux and its downtown predecessor Frágil, and as a producer of timeless house tracks, she’s rightly earned her legendary in Portuguese dance music. But as April Clare Welsh learns, she’s busier and more energised than she’s ever been. Alongside a thumping On Cue mix of pure dancefloor energy, she shares her story
Akai’s APC20 hardware controller proves less is more...
Ever since Ableton became popular with the masses and started to pop up in cooler studios and DJ boxes across the planet, the arms race...
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With a range of sounds encompassing slo-mo house, gothic EBM, Italo disco and more, and an equally unrestrained art direction, Freeride Millenium is a no-holds-barred expression of love between its founders Jorkes and Daniel Rajcsanyi, aka ParisBöhm, and the queer community they aim to uplift. Alongside a mix of tracks from its catalogue, they share the label’s story
We're digging the psychedelic hip-hop and dub funk vibes of Mauritian-English Mo Kolours...
“I think with electronic music and modern day ideas about mastering and all these processes, people want to get rid of the background noise and...
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In our new regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their...