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Listen to the German dance duo's most inspiring records

They've become one of the biggest live dance acts on the planet, and these are the tracks they picked out for DJ Mag as having had a profound influence on them over the years...

 

 

Charlotte de Witte has shot into techno’s upper echelons since assuming her real name for her productions and DJ slots. Initially using the male-sounding alias...

 

It’s 2017 and techno is bigger than ever. It’s a statement that could, of course, be applied to dance music overall, but this year...

Dallas has long been a hub of razor sharp electro, but its history is lesser known than that of Chicago or Detroit. Here, Ben Murphy...

Dallas, Texas is an unlikely nerve centre of electro music. The city’s small but tight knit cabal of producers and DJs have been releasing essential...

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The Grammy-award winner will perform on the festival’s opening night

UNTOLD has announced Black Coffee as the latest Galaxy stage headliner for 2024’s festival. The South African heavyweight DJ will join fellow top-liners Martin Garrix...

Portrait of The World's No. 1 Trance DJ, Armin van Buuren

The results from this year’s Top 100 DJs poll were announced tonight (27th October)

Armin van Buuren has won The World’s No. 1 Trance DJ award in this year's DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll. Placing No. 5 in...

Armin van Buuren announces headline show in Manchester

His first date in the city for half a decade

Armin van Buuren has announced a headline show in Manchester on Saturday 16th April. The Dutch producer, DJ, A State of Trance (ASOT) boss and...

Did your favourite underground DJ make the cut?

The Top 100 DJs poll results always make for interesting reading. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably realised by now that Martin...

There’s far more to Amsterdam than just cafes, a red light district and picturesque cycle paths. Over the next few pages, with a little help...

Detroit Swindle (Lars and Maarten) know Amsterdam as well as they know their house and disco records. The tag-team DJ duo responsible for Heist Recordings...

With Alfredo, Largo & Ben Gmori - 15th October

After yet another Summer filled with Balearic Beats, new friends and amazing Memories, we must put aside our Sunglasses and Swimmers till next year, But...

The most epic ADE yet

Steadily, with minimal fuss and no brash talk, the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has built itself up into the premier global conference destination for dance...

Exclusive tour diary

Despite his history — a resident at Rex Club since '97, the boss of Bass Culture and a producer of the deep house elite in...

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The world's largest club-based festival and conference and electronic music festival returns in October

Martin Garrix, Timbaland, Laurent Garnier and Grace Ladoja and among the first speakers to be confirmed for this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). Having welcomed...

With Miller Genuine Draft

Miller SoundClash is the annual competition run by Miller Genuine Draft, in association with DJ Mag and Mixcloud, to uncover the very best up-and-coming DJ...

The masked man speaks

A Sagittariun has been involved in the electronic music scene for the best part of 25 years — running labels, representing artists, producing under other names. He won’t tell DJ Mag who he is, hiding behind a silly mask, but we don’t mind because his new EP, ‘Across the Celestial Sphere’, and forthcoming ‘Dream Ritual’ album are so sublime.
“A Sagittariun is a very personal project, I’m making the music that comes most naturally to me, to be honest,” he tells DJ Mag, “and not really compromising or playing the industry game.”

Ahead of his first ever shows as pioneering Detroit electro unit Cybotron, techno innovator Juan Atkins tells us why he’s revisiting his past — and...

Juan Atkins has always been, in his own words, “a music lover”. Growing up in Detroit, he would treat his parents’ dinner parties as an...