The pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has had a devastating impact on our scene, leading to the cancellation of countless club nights and festivals...
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A guide to dance music's pre-rave past
A guide to dance music's past
As a way of supporting the artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, we've launched a weekly roundup of the most vital Bandcamp releases...
Get your kicks with Teenage Engineering's OP-1 do-it-all synth station
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...
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After the initial proposal was rejected in 2014, "Beastie Boys Square" will soon reside on the Lower East Side
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The gathering was organised to celebrate the 30th anniversary of notorious UK free party Castlemorton
Fortune Favours The Brave: Obsession is the key
Keith Reilly owns around 500,000 pieces of vinyl. They live on palettes in a warehouse. He knows it's a problem, that he's helpless to stop...
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The German trance DJ also claims the ALDA event company “tried to block the insurance to pay for my medical bills”
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The government had presented it as news that UK artists were able to tour without visas in 19 EU member states, but barriers to touring...
Music industry figures have hit back at the UK Government's recent claims of victory in securing visa-free touring for UK artists across 19 EU member states...
As DJs, producers and labels all get their biggest musical bombs ready for Miami’s annual musical showcase, DJMag looks back at the history of Big...
Is it the dance music equivalent of the Holy Grail or a merely an empty, outdated myth? That’s the question hanging over the concept of...
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Chicago house legend Paul Johnson has died, aged 50
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From bassy breaks and minimal techno to fizzing hyper-pop, experimental lo-fi and beyond, here’s May 2024’s list of upcoming talent you should be keeping track of
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Cairo DJ and producer Azzouni and Palestinian MC Dakn kick of the second Irsh compilation with a slice of tempo-shifting beat science
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1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” — in law. Despite widespread demonstrations at what was seen as draconian power-grabs by the UK authorities, the Bill became law later in 1994. Here, Harold Heath looks back at the reaction from the dance music community at the time, and the Act’s lasting impact on the rave scene today
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Johannesburg's Echo Deep crafts a rolling, percussive remix of the forthcoming Afro house cut ‘Meremeta’
On the gorgeous island of Hvar, boutique raving at its finest...
It's not often we're found recreating the 'Rio' video with Mark Ronson on a speed boat or witnessing a private set on a boat from...