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Celebrating his new release for Banoffee Pies...

Marenn Sukie takes a chilled out trip through leftfield dance on the later edition of our Fresh Kicks series.

The UK producer — otherwise known...

Photo of Cakes Da Killa sitting on the floor in an orange room

Cakes Da Killa’s sound is always evolving — and his new LP, the jazz-kissed ‘Black Sheep’, is the latest step in the NYC-based rapper’s musical maturation. Produced alongside his longtime collaborator Sam Katz, it might be his best yet. Bruce Tantum learns more

Rashard Bradshaw has always had a thing for the power and the beauty of words. “I loved reading and I loved poetry, just poetry in...

Timmy Trumpet: brass tacks

An accomplished jazz musician, Timmy Trumpet made the switch to electronic music some years ago and has quickly become one of the world’s biggest DJs, famed for his ecstatic energy, collaborative mindset and improvised trumpeting on stage. DJ Mag speaks to Timmy — and his wife Anett — about his journey so far

“My friends and I used to make fun of dance music when I first got into it,” laughs Timothy Jade Smith, rather sheepishly. At that...

GALA, London’s first outdoor dance music festival in over 16 months, took place in Peckham Rye Park last weekend. With exceptional programming and an emphasis...

Approaching the gates of GALA, London’s first full-capacity, outdoor dance music festival since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, a familiar feeling emerges. As muffled...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

The biggest tunes on the underground this month

Five tunes you need in your box

Seminal tracks that altered dance forever

When I put it on, the whole club stood there and stared at me. I was the only one rocking in the DJ box, no one else was, and when the bassline actually dropped, that's when the whole crowd went a bit loopy for it

Carl Cox's 7 most important tracks

Carl Cox started DJing when he was just nine-years-old at the request of his dad, who would let him stay up late if he picked...

The Cutting Edge releases you need in your life

Mock & Toof 'Farewell To Wendo EP' Tiny Sticks

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Tremendously promising Londoners Mock & Toof take it up a gear for this ambitious EP...

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THREE TUNES: 'Twisted Love', 'Forget It', 'About To Burst'

“I often hear a lot about kids who were listening to the coolest of cool shit at age seven — well, that wasn’t me,” says...

We watch the band recreate Daft Punk’s catalogue completely live

London-based cover band, Introducing Live, laugh in the face of the impossible — the group perform the albums that others won’t, they play the unplayable...

With Miller Genuine Draft

In the third of our regional Top 100 DJs roundups, we focus on one of dance music’s biggest markets. DJs and producers from USA &...

Could a panel of industry professionals tell the difference between the different compressed audio formats of mp3, AAC, WMA, and Vorbis? DJmag put five experts...

The Judges

All our judges have extensive experience working with digital music and compressed audio and they're all foolishly confident that they'll be able to...

Amsterdam’s record shops are renowned in the European dance scene, crammed with cuts that have made local DJs into stars and ensured that Dekmantel festival is...

Westerstraat 2441015 MT AMSTERDAMMonday: closedTues-Fri (exc. Thurs): 11am-6pmThurs: 11am-9pmSat: 10am-6pmSunday: closedIf you're heasing out West to Distortion, you’ll want to dedicate as much time as...

Big Beat Reunion Goes Off With A Bang

Reunions can be a bit naff, but this one went off like the proverbial bomb. You didn’t have to have been a Brighton clubber back...