A couple of hours into a conversation that has already covered Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Parliament-Funkadelic, Emma-Jean Thackray brings up Marcelo Bielsa, the eccentric...
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Championed by Uganda's Nyege Nyege festival, and now breaking ground across Europe, Nairobi-born, Kampala-based Slikback blends footwork, grime and more to electrfying, unique effect...
Africa has been getting a lot of attention within the Western dance music sphere over the last few years, with the rise of reissue labels such as Awesome...
DJ Mag heads to Herefordshire's Hidden Valley event for a weekend of d&b, hip-hop and more...
Nestled in the rolling hills of Herefordshire, Nozstock celebrates the weird and the wonderful, forming a haven for bass, hip-hop and electronica lovers searching for...
Our annual Croatian festival went right off
Scrap preconceptions around Club 18-30 lads in Shagaluf, where the British really leave their mark around the world — in a meaningful sense anyway — is while flooding the coastlines of Europe's festival paradise — Croatia.
The clubs that changed dance music forever<BR>
“Forget ’88 to ’90. Acid house had died by then... this was a new phase,” recalls drum & bass don Fabio on his legendary residency...
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It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...
“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...
Ex-Bizarre Inc dudes pick their seven
Andy Meecham and Dean Meredith are Chicken Lips, pictured here in their cartoon guise; they were also the dudes formerly known as Bizarre Inc
Skylark are Nic Fanciulli and Andy Chatterley – the talented electronic house duo who've got dance music running through their veins.
Fanciulli is of course known as a stellar DJ in his own right, and as part of One+One with James Zabiela; Chatterley meanwhile, has been...
Remixer of choice and Best of British nominee Ewan Pearson spills the beans on his successful career to date and his new 'Fabric' CD.
You've moved from the UK to Berlin. How is life over there?
"Very good, yep. It's a very vibrant and exciting place to live, but...
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Unstoppable UK producer/DJ and label head Agrippa delivers and hour of raw power, explosive rhythm and fiery UK techno. We catch up with Par Avion's...
Since breaking through in 2015, Agrippa has been nothing if not prolific. With a percussive, ensnaring catalog of releases under his belt already, as well...
When did dance get so damned elitist?
“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove… One day Jack declared, "Let there be HOUSE!" and house music was born. And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all... Jack is the one that can bring nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House.”
The on-the-road diary of the world's top DJs treading the globe
Showcasing fresh house cuts from Hot Since 82, Eats Everything and Shadow Child (among others), Jaymo and Andy George's 'Moda Black Vol. 1' revealed the duo's interest in darker, more demure sounds of the house spectrum when it landed last summer.
Xavier de Rosnay & Gaspard Augé speak up...
The analogue synth craze is out of control. It’s hit its apex with SURVIVE’s John Carpenter-style soundtrack to Netflix sci-fi show Stranger Things. Now everyone’s...
'Basic Colour Theory' is anything but just another dance album. We sat down with them to find out about the philosophy behind it...
Polish duo Catz 'N Dogz are no strangers to DJ Mag readers. Rising to underground recognition over the past five years through their association with...
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A trained jazz musician, bandleader and DJ, Emma-Jean Thackray couldn’t find a home for herself and her music in more established jazz spaces, so she...