In the UK, new experimental sounds born from the jazz tradition are transforming the live experience. Fusing with mainstream genres like grime, hip-hop and reggae...
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French duo Amine Edge & DANCE bring their G-House to the DJ Mag Miami party...
Amine Edge & DANCE are on a mission. Coming up from the not-so-mean streets of Marseilles, the production/DJ duo bonded as kids over a shared...
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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Something’s happening on the peripheries of jazz, but what do we call it? Alanna Henry delves in to find out
Ninja Tune's most exciting new signing.
In the current climate of deep house dullards Letherette stand out like a sore thumb. Cutting 'n' pasting micro fragments of dusty old vinyl into emotive, pulsing electronic decoupages, their skewed, psych take on house and hip-hop acknowledges pioneers like J Dilla, Daft Punk, Cassius and Madlib, while injecting unexpected kaleidoscopic flourishes and live instrumentation, pushing sampladelia in a unique direction.
@ Plastic People: 25 March
Down grimy Curtain Road, there's a massive queue leading up to a dingy little door bookended by two huge bouncers. This is Plastic People, the...
Producer du jour <B>Paul Epworth</B> is in full effect right now.
With a CV that reads like a who's who of hipster music, he's put his Midas touch to records by a vast coterie of disparate...
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Montréal’s NAFF Recordings co-founder Priori records a mix of deep, spaced-out house and techno for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Sophie McNulty about collaborating, discovering dance music in his teens and pushing electronic sounds to into new, weird places
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Get acquainted with Huey Mnemonic, the Detroit-based artist producing futuristic, funk-filled techno
Sonar can't be beaten when it comes to mixing the banging with the experimental. For over 20 years the Barcelona festival has kept it real...
There are many contenders to the crown but only one king. When it comes to festivals, there's nothing else like Sonar — the Barcelona event...
The Croatian coastline has become the go-to spot for festival- goers who want a glimpse of sun that’ll last longer than 30 seconds. From Zrce...
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VARIETY is the spice of life at Hideout, with everything from grime and UK hip-hop to solid techno represented in the line-up; Paul Woolford...
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Experimental, accomplished and downright epic, Marc Mac and Dego McFarlane’s 1998 classic served as a blueprint for the divine future possibilities of drum & bass music
1998 was a landmark, if slightly troubling, time for drum & bass. It was a year of shifting styles, sprawling albums, and new sub genres, one that saw...
Hospital Records' hottest new signings Fred V & Grafix are a duo equally at home crafting neon-lit d&b as they are electronic Fly Lo-style hip-hop.
Jet-lagged and laptop-laden, Fred Vahrman types away to DJ Mag on behalf of himself and his production partner Josh Jackson. Fred V & Grafix have...
The garage/techno/jazz futurist on his new album 'Seven Lies'
We caught up with this self-taught scholar of dance music who first began DJing jazz in his room to find out what exactly is going on in that brain — and that record collection — of his...
Breaks fiends Atomic Hooligan are back with a bold, hip-hop heavy, rock swaggered LP and boy do they mean business!
After smashing it with their genre-mocking, rock heavy 2005 LP 'We Are Are', Matt Welch and Terry Ryan have come out all guns blazing...