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Dutch DJ/ producer Fedde Le Grand's tips for ADE

He might be best known for putting his “hands up for Detroit” but Dutch producer Fedde Le Grand also holds a torch aloft for Amsterdam...

Bristol beat-maker Boca 45's new album is dedicated to his love of funk and soul. DJ Mag finds out how collaboration shapes his sound

“The tent was rammed halfway through my set - they wouldn’t let anybody in, so I must have done something right,” beams funk aficionado Boca 45, a few...

Berlin’s Cinthie is responsible for some of the most sought-after deep house records of the moment. In between her hectic schedule of label management, running...

Let’s put things into perspective — a lot can happen in 12 months. Try launching a new label, a vinyl store and building a new...

Mark Knight is a man on a mission to unite the scene...

Mark Knight is a man on a mission. The Toolroom Records founder brings his signature chunky beats and addictive grooves to Miami wherever he plays...

Mysteryland's US edition returns to Woodstock

Break out your hemp satchels and Birkenstock sandals. Mysteryland is returning for its second year at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of...

'Unbelievable' singer James Atkin releases debut solo album

James Atkin was the singer in EMF, the early '90s indie-dance UK act who had a massive worldwide hit with 'Unbelievable' in 1990. EMF formed...

DJ W!LD's top 10 most influential tracks

Brought up on disco, funk and hip-hop in Dijon in eastern France, DJ W!ld took his name from the seminal 1983 hip-hop documentary Wild Style...

Interview with the Dub Police mainstay around his new mix comp

Alex Crawford, aka The Others, burst onto the dubstep scene back in 2007 when his track 'Africa VIP' featured on Caspa & Rusko's seminal Fabriclive...

An unlikely pairing of two super producers fit like a glove on “The Calvary”

Scott Storch “is mounting his modest comeback.” The notoriously self-destructive production genius opens up to Billboard in a recent interview revealing, as many have speculated...

Don’t mind if we do...

And so the smiles begin, as soon as we touchdown and step out onto that notorious Balearic soil (well concrete actually, because no-one really steps...

The biggest tunes on the underground this month

A lot of water has travelled under the bridge since Art Department delivered 'Without You' on Crosstown Rebels in 2011. Tech house and deep house are still getting chewed up and spat out, with DJs dropping newly evolved forms of the sound as quickly as it's found its way into the charts and been picked up by stadium-filling titans such as Tiësto.

The biggest tunes on the underground this month

Since winning Best Label at the DJ Mag Best of British Awards in 2011, Defected have continued to go from strength to strength. Adroit at raising their finger to detect the prevailing wind of change, they've earned their rep by transforming the stirrings of the underground into mainstream success, pushing the likes of Tensnake to even greater heights and introducing house legends such as MK, Murk and Kevin Saunderson to a new generation of clubbers.

The mother of all festivals

Mother of all festivals, Glastonbury is a fantastic place to go for dance music fiends — and indeed for fans of pretty much any style of music. The DJ Mag crew arrive on Saturday morning, having already missed a wealth of talent such as Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, Julio Bashmore and Gold Panda, as well as Chic, the Arctic Monkeys and Portishead, but it doesn’t matter as there’s plenty more to be had over the next two days of frivolities.

We share a minute with a rare deep house talent

Over the last few years he has imbued his own music with a very unique voice. Slightly grainy and tortured sounding, the Toronto based producer has been on a mission to shake things up and get away from diva cries of “Detroit” or “one love” and instead concerns himself with more cerebral subject matters.

Noncompliant (AKA DJ Shiva) delivers an hour of blistering, assertive techno. We catch up with the Midwest legend to learn about the Indiana rave scene...