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For recording mixes at home, learning to DJ, live streaming or scratching the itch of playing your favourite tunes back to back, affordable controllers have...

Buying your first controller can be overwhelming. Not only is there an endless amount of choice, many of which look almost identical to each other...

Left: A photo pf LUXE wearing blue pyjamas and Angel D'lite wearing pink pyjamas. Both are lying on a blanket. RIGHT: A photo of FAFF. Elliot's arm is wrapped affectionately around Orny from behind

LUXE and Angel D’lite deliver two blissed-out rave tracks on the Goddezz label, accompanied by a raft of ravey remixes

LUXE and Angel D’lite have joined forces for a new EP, titled 'Enchanted', on the Goddezz label, accompanied by a raft of ravey remixes. Listen...

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A street in Portsmouth, Virginia's entertainment district will be called Missy Elliott Boulevard

Missy Elliott is set to be honoured with her own street name. A few months on from being recognised with her own star on the...

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...

As Porter Robinson prepares for his first-ever EDM-free tour, in support of his debut album ‘Worlds,’ the 22-year-old reveals the bold risks he took to...

Post adolescence angst. That stretch of time in your early '20s spent agonizing over your place in the world. Suddenly stripped of the protective safety...

Free and easy access to drinking water at clubs is crucial for ravers' safety, but some venues remain insistent on charging prices that are prohibitively...

Water is a human right, essential to our daily survival. In places where the human body is subjected to excessive heat, exercise, and dehydration —...

Fedde Le Grand brand new single, interview and on-the-road footage

No wonder Dutch superstar DJ Fedde Le Grand’s new track is called ‘So Much Love’. Watch the video, which shows him playing to crowds of...

Touring around the world with Stefano Noferini


Italy's tech house stallion Stefano Noferini is an undisputed titan of his scene. Whether it's slamming mixes for Toolroom or huge collaborations with Mark Knight...

Napster

"Based on 20 years of data we think we have a pretty good handle on what people might like and might not like"

Napster is set to launch a new web3 arm, Napster Ventures, and have hired former vice president and global head of music at online gaming...

Dance Mania transformed Chicago house from its '80s roots to a rough, raw, x-rated version that banged harder than anyone else. Now, after 13 years...

If Live Nation, SFX and Beatport owner Robert Sillerman is hoping to monopolize the world of EDM, then he may just be copying Daft Punk...

Cormac posing in profile against a grey blue background. He's wearing an orange coat with a white hood and a blue baseball cap

With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal  experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside an On Cue mix packed with HI-NRG anthems and Italo house, Marke Bieschke learns more

What is “queer music”? For some, the term recalls debauched downtown discos of yore, with unbridled backrooms, fabulous androgynes, and Liza Minnelli descending to the...

Photo of Sepehr posing at a slight tilt, wearing a black leather vest

With his Shaytoon Records label, Sepehr has built a platform for underground techno and electronic music from the Iranian diaspora. But the versatile New York-based producer and DJ fights oversimplified categorisations and pigeonholing at every turn, extracting influence from obscure ‘90s rave records as much as Persian mythology. Alongside a 90-minute On Cue mix demonstrating this sound, he tells Marke Bieschke about his Flower Storm project with Kasra V, the influence of Silent Servant, and his grunge-influenced new band

If anyone is going to be searingly candid about real life in the music business, it's Sepehr Alimagham Tabari. With his four-year-old label Shaytoon Records...

Recognise: Analog Soul

Two decades since they realised their destinies lay in music and DJing, NYC-based twins, Analog Soul, demonstrate their expansive and funk-filled sound for the Recognise mix series, and share their journey with Ria Hylton

Some 20 years ago, Jacky Sommer switched US coasts and headed east to New York. The Oakland native had just scooped a highly sought-after spot...

Roland AIRA T8 review

The mini AIRA emulates some iconic Roland drum machines in a small package. But is it a worthy addition to a working studio, or a good first venture into outboard gear? DJ Mag's digital tech editor Declan McGlynn finds out

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Roland’s iconic instruments define the sound of house, techno, acid and electro. Their original TR range of drum...

Recognise: Ploy

Ploy demonstrates his percussive, pulse-racing and sub-bass-shaking sound for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Katie Thomas about gradually finding his groove on imprints like L.I.E.S, Hessle Audio and Timedance, and his new label and party, Deaf Test

In February 2020, Ploy shared a bill with Batu and Loraine James, celebrating five years of Batu’s label, Timedance. Playing the closing hours of the...