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A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
It's taken Chus+Ceballos the past 15 years to finally give birth to their debut album 'Nomadas'
Taking 15 years, In fairness it is actually the bringing together of many of the successful productions that have appeared on their iconic label Stereo...
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DJ Mag’s Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing influence of seminal albums throughout history. Here, DJ Mag's Digital Tech Editor Declan McGlynn examines how Prince's...
As the chorus for ‘Purple Rain’ rang out of First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on a humid August evening in 1983, no one sang along...
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Music and vegetating on the couch all day watching Netflix are undoubtedly two of life’s greatest pleasures. And as you might expect, Netflix is no...
When it comes to trance, few DJs can hold a candle to Paul van Dyk. One of the genre’s true superstars and a bonafide legend...
From humble beginnings in East Germany, Van Dyk came of age when the Berlin wall fell, a dramatic moment that would have a lasting impact...
Tommie Sunshine writes a tribute to the Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles
Francis Nicholls was born January 1955 in The Bronx, New York. But Frankie Knuckles, as we came to know him, was born in March 1977...
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Rolling Stone reports that Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and co-founder Vince Lawrence are among the claimants
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, ahead of Dialled In festival, Daytimers’ Gracie T spotlights breakthrough sounds from the new South Asian underground
Critically acclaimed and wholly unstoppable, musical genius BT doesn’t break boundaries. For him, they don’t exist.
Everyone told BT it was impossible. Record labels and agents, promoters and peers said his vision for ‘Electronic Opus’, a unique mixture of live electronic...
DJ Mag chat with Toolroom bossman Mark Knight
Mark Knight has come a long way since smashing tunes out of his parent's converted shed as a nipper (ever wondered why it's called Toolroom...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From hard-hitting techno and soulful house anthems to ravey post-punk bangers, here's June 2022's list of upcoming talent you should be keeping track of
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Syncopated club rhythms, radiant vocals and frenzied breaks from Paris-based purveyor of international club sounds, Jaymie Silk
Jaymie Silk’s Fresh Kicks mix whirls with colour and ferocity. Syncopated club rhythms, with flourishes of gqom, UK techno and Jersey club, dart through broad...
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Recognise is DJ Mag's monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music circuit. This month, Texas-born, New York-based...
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With the second summer of love’s thirtieth anniversary fast approaching, it’s perhaps no surprise to learn that some of electronic music’s early groups are reaching...