This feature was originally published in 2018, at the height of the Windrush scandal, and on the 70th anniversary of the Windrush ship's arrival in...
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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...
We met him in London to talk about his dance epiphany, the importance of staying true to your vision, and giving his fans what they...
“Everything I do, I see myself as a bit of an outsider, I'm not strictly within the dance music world, I'm not strictly within the...
Charlie and Eli from Soul Clap have been let loose on the back catalogue of seminal garage label Nice N' Ripe
In the summer of 1996, when Eli Goldstein was 14, he discovered something that would quite literally change the course of his life. Was it...
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...
HERE COMES TROUBLE: The south London club night’s all-encompassing booking policy captures the zeitgeist...
Trouble Vision main man Chris Gold is living probably every student promoter's dream. It was back when he was studying graphic design at Camberwell College...
2012 Miami Listing's
Yup, it's that time again — all eyes on South Beach. The East Atlantic coast of Miami, USA is braced for another infiltration of dance...
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.
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Some of the most important DJs in the development of the UK scene are children of the Windrush generation. DJ Mag's editor-in-chief, Carl Loben, speaks to Black and mixed-race foundation DJs about their parents, racism, culture, and being pioneers in our beloved scene
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DJ Mag catches up with Egyptian artist Xander Ghost about A Better Feeling, his London-based label creating futuristic eyewear that’s designed with musicians in mind
Tiga, DJ Hell, Boy George, Danny Howells and Soulwax talk about Bowie's impact...
It was Bowie’s ability to experiment, trend-spot, paint lyrical images and create new personas — chameleon-like — in the '70s that gave him such a cult following.
The influences that have made the Circus man into the artist he is today...
01. RUFUS & CHAKA KHAN 'Ain't Nobody'
“A record I first heard as part of the soundtrack to Breakdance: The Movie (Breakin'). I was...
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The Tidy Boys and their label Tidy Trax epitomised the early ‘00s hard house scene, at one point selling a million records a year. As...
Time for a history lesson
Memory is a crazy thing. Psychology suggests that huge chunks of our memory are false constructs, whopping great brain porkies designed to bolster up whatever zany truths we’ve decided to believe about the world. Say, for example, that you think of yourself as a virile, dancefloor dominating master of the decks, a near mythical hybrid of Julio Bashmore, Sasha and Larry Levan.
Riots severely damage music industry as record labels lose stock in warehouse fire
The recent riots sweeping across London since Saturday have proved disastrous for a large number of music labels - mostly small independents - after a...