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It's impossible to review any kind of DJ or studio controller without chucking in a few ‘Inbetweeners’-style knob-gags, so you can imagine my distress when this reviewer first unwrapped Livid's Base, an entirely touch-sensitive USB MIDI controller. Were they so desperate to be taken seriously that they'd deprive a lonely studio soul of his one puerile release? Actually no, there's a very good reason to go knob-free. Join me on a session of tender touching to find out...

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

Eric Prydz didn't used to have far to go when he played the SW4 festival in its early days.

Taking their name from the Japanese word for brothers, Kyodai are just that, although the duo are Spanish and live in Berlin.

Signed to Sweden's...

When you absolutely, positively must decimate the dance floor, these are the tunes you need..

Last week we featured a video exclusive of 'Reset', a track from 'Speed of Life', the forthcoming debut album from Australia-based producer Dirty South...

One of the most enduring DJ/producer partnerships is winding down, and Matthew B, aka Bushwacka, has announced that he is going solo. Although he will still play some gigs with old mucker Layo, Matthew has effectively branched out on his own now with a new pseudonym – Just B

Not one but two reasons for Ableton users to be cheerful have been announced from the company’s German headquarters in the form of Live 9 along with a rather intriguing controller called Push. Not content with just improving their hugely popular Live software, for their latest incarnation, Ableton have also found the time to get teamed up with Akai to create a new Push controller specifically to control Ableton. It looks like they might have created the perfect Ableton controller in the process.

Space Ibiza offers a spectacle few can rival no matter the occasion, but it's its closing party that's most explosive. The opener might be the culmination of eight months out the game, but the last day at the office is the product of six months of accumulated party joy; the last big blow-out before the autumn months settle in and the Ibiza season winds down for yet another year.

As if Eastern Electrics Festival Afterparty wasn’t already as crammed as a Central Line train during rush hour – albeit one full of sweaty, whooping...

DJ Mag can’t begin to describe the excitement we felt when we finally got our hands on an OP-1. We’d been following the development of...

Maschine Mikro is the latest incarnation of Native Instruments’ game-changing groove box — a hardware and software combination designed to fulfill all those tactile retro...

One of the founding fathers of dubstep, DJ Hatcha is widely considered amongst the leading DJs in the genre. With a weekly show with MC...

It seems like every manufacturer under the sun has a DJ midi controller on offer at the moment, so it comes as no surprise that...

We have been most impressed with Stanton’s mixers of late. Mixers like the M.207 have proved that Stanton understands the needs of DJs and can...