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A regular headliner at festivals around the world, put your hands up for Fedde Le Grand. We caught up with the Dutch producer to ask about latest single 'Lion (Feel The Love)', find out his many influences and discover why he feels an affinity with duck-billed platypuses...

Robert Hood was a member of Underground Resistance, the legendary militant visionary techno collective from Detroit. After leaving UR in the early 1990s, Robert pioneered a minimalist form of techno — along with Daniel Bell, Richie Hawtin etc — in reaction to the increasingly hardcore “too ravey” twists and turns that techno was taking.

Setting up a massive outdoor soundsystem in the middle of a city and getting away with it is no easy feat these days, especially in the UK, so when FACE/Below pulled off Circoloco in the Arena on a stretch of industrial wasteland in the heart of Birmingham last Easter, they had us impressed to say the least.

Maya Jane Coles is one of the UK's biggest tech house stars. But as she explains on the eve of the release of her debut album and a load of DJ dates in Ibiza, she's staying true to her vision and choosing to release her music independently. We talk collaborators, DJing on the White Isle, and refusing to dilute her sound...

Gold Panda has been causing pandemonium in electronica circles since releasing his glistening debut album, 'Lucky Shiner'

“I never latch on to one particular trend when it comes to music,” says Luke Solomon. We’re talking about the New Jersey house revival currently pumping energy bubbles into the British underground house scene. And the reason we’re talking about it is because old school New Jersey house, says Luke, is something he loved and lived through the first time round.

Layo & Bushwacka! were a popular tech house duo before Millennium time, but after they released ‘Love Story’ in 2002 they totally went supernova. They met at the legendary central London nightclub The End, where Bushwacka!, aka Matthew Benjamin, was a resident DJ and Layo Paskin was co-owner (with Mr C). 



X-Press 2 were one of the principal house acts in the early '90s, rocking the floors with cuts like post-hardcore progressive house cut 'Muzik Xpress' — with its memorable “Music, music, music” refrain — and the cowbell-tastic 'London Xpress'. The trio of acid house originals — Rocky, Diesel and Ashley Beedle — went their separate ways for a while in the late '90s, before coming back together just before the Millennium.

Soul singer extraordinaire, Alice Russell is releasing her fifth album this month on Tru Thoughts — 'To Dust'. She's again teamed with Brighton-based producer TM Juke, having previously collaborated with Mr Scruff, Quantic, DJ Yoda and David Byrne from Talking Heads.

One word, or rather frequency, dominated the dancefloor over the last 12 months: bass. From slamming analogue house to pirate radio-inspired, lowdown, cone-rattling sub-suspended beats...

Celebrating a decade of love (and boxes), Lovebox return to East London's Victoria Park between the 15th and 17th of June for another massive weekend...

American House legend Todd Terry is set to return to London for the second time this year with a show at the ever emerging Proud2...

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NO, THIS IS NOT APRIL FOOL'S JOKE. DJmag can confirm...

FCL’s ‘Vocals for Everyone’ EP on We Play House Records was hands down one of the releases of last year.  The work...

Having been touring the world with a camera crew in tow, Fedde Le Grand remains as big as possibly made-up his name suggests. His series...