Exalted among the many musical innovations that Jamaica has given the world is the dubplate. An acetate pressing of unreleased music, produced especially for DJs...
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In the early ‘90s, dubplates, exclusive early pressings of unreleased music, fuelled the buzz around DJs in the emergent jungle scene. In an excerpt from...
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Joy Orbison's debut, 'Hyph Mngo', is 10 years old. DJ Mag reflects on a track that signalled a seismic shift in UK dance music
“Big, big, big.” It’s June 25th 2009, and one hour into his still-pirate Rinse FM show, Blackdown is jittery. An unmastered new track is drifting...
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DJ Mag heads to Ghana to explore a rapidly expanding, festival- driven scene that, while rooted on pop and traditional sounds, is beginning to open...
March is an important month in Ghana’s calendar; it’s when the West African country celebrates gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1957. The month...
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Experimental sound artist, rkss, delivers a high-intensity mix of pop manipulations, Jersey club, footwork and frenzied EDM as part of our Fresh Kicks series
rkss’ Fresh Kicks mix opens with a frenzied mash-up of metallic flutes, propulsive kicks and the isolated vocal from Rhianna’s ‘Diamonds’. It’s a striking opening...
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In DJ Mag's April charts, four artists a select their top 10 tracks of the month, spanning crazy hip-hop mashups, jungle pressure, propulsive house bangers...
The Labour Party's Shadow Business Secretary is also a sometime house/garage DJ too...
Chuka Umunna is one of the highest profile young politicians in the UK. But did you know that he's also a part-time DJ, these days...
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In the '90s, there was nowhere to party like Ibiza , and there was nowhere wilder in Ibiza than Manumission. The hedonistic, sex-fueled party took place in some of The White Isle's most famous clubs, as well as its own Motel venue, with punters and DJs alike frequently spending days on end revelling in its debauched atmosphere. A new book written by its co-founder Claire Davies captures Manumission's ecstatic spirit. Here, Simon Doherty speaks to her about some of her favourite images from that time
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Düsseldorf is a city steeped with a history of artists and clubs that have existed on the bleeding edge of alternative music – from Kraftwerk...
It’s 3am in the morning at a packed out Salon des Amateurs, and Vladmir Ivkovic is playing b2b with Toulouse Low Trax. The Belgrade-born DJ...
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A true rap obsessive, DJ Firestarr has built a career on passion, consistency and perseverance. Playing the long game and making opportunities for himself, he...
Miami's underground venues
We're all aware of the glitz and glamour of South Beach's many venues, but scratch beneath the surface of the Miami scene and you'll find a plethora of underground dens of iniquity at your disposal. Uptown, Downtown, turn the beat around! These are the coolest, off-the-radar spots worth popping into during WMC...
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Sónar has always sought to support talent from its home country, and this year its programme highlighted the incredible creativity of Spain’s electronic music scene in...
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Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
When we speak with Nightwave, she has just spent the past week on a shamanastic Huni Kuin retreat in a Scottish forest. The Huni Kuin...
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Black Science Orchestra’s Trammps-sampling, Frankie Knuckles approved 1992 cut ‘Where Were You?’ marked a key moment in UK house music, and embodied a sound that...
Signed to the same label as Classixx and Nosaj Thing, LA duo De Lux's sunny perspective on disco-punk has earned them comparisons from Talking Heads...
Beaches, sunshine, convertibles, palm trees... and punk-funk, disco-influenced bands? While the may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Los...