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Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

 

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Grime MC Skepta had a fantastic year in 2015, and it

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The original was one of the first revolutionary iOS music making apps

Moog has released Animoog Z, a new version of their iconic Animoog app that first launched on iOS in 2011. The new version is designed...

Shy One is one of London's most versatile DJs, spinning everything from grime UK hip-hop to classic house and beyond. We catch up with Mali Larrington-Nelson...

DJ and producer Shy One has never been afraid to be different. Her artist name might suggest a timid nature, but her approach to dance...

Charisse Beaumont Black Lives in Music

The organisation wants mandatory annual pay gap reporting to be published alongside commitments to address disparities

The founders of Black Lives in Music (BLiM) have called on UK politicians to intervene and level out gender and ethnicity pay gaps within the...

With Black Acre showcase at Corisca Studios this Saturday 15th May

The fantastic Warrior One, who we featured in the March issue of DJ Mag, bring their brand of jungle and reggae infused UK funky...

Akai 37-key MIDI controller

The update comes with an additional eight MPC pads and built-in step sequencer 

Akai has announced the latest edition to its MPK line of keyboard controllers, the MPK Mini Plus. This new iteration of the brand's best-selling MIDI...

Drum & bass MC eases out 'Mid Mic Crisis' on Marcus Intalex's label

MC DRS first got into MCing when he rocked up to a rave where Marcus Intalex was playing near Manchester, and asked for a go...

A total of 22 MPs from across a number of parties have come together to call for action

A cross-party group of MPs have come together to call on Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government to back plans to help the UK music...

Plan B proposals were ratified with 369 votes for and 126 against

Members of Parliament have voted in favour of introducing Covid passes for entry to nightclubs in England. This means using the NHS Covid app to...

The organisation has warned of a £2.5 billion rent crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic

The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has warned that 75% of the UK's nightlife businesses are facing a bankruptcy 'cliff edge' without rent support from...

Meet the MC is DJ Mag's new monthly interview series, getting to know emerging MCs on the electronic music scene. This month, DJ Mag’s Amy...

Huddled in a circle on the dark, smoke-filled dancefloor at Corsica Studios, the four MCs that make up Bala Bala Boyz spit over syncopated bass-heavy...

New book lays bare MC Flux’s lively life

Nyege Nyege Tapes readies its second compilation of Tanzanian singeli, ‘Sounds of Pamoja’. Hear the crazed beats and frantic flow of MC Kuke’s 'Kwa Ajiri...

Kampala, Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Tapes will release its second compilation celebrating the high-speed electronic sound of Tanzania, singeli, this week. You can hear MC Kuke’s...

BackRoad Gee is the next artist in the opening season of our new series, Meet The MC

Backroad Gee, the London-based UK rap artist best known for his hit, 'Party Popper', is next in the opening season of our new series, Meet...

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Modular software delight

In the late '90s there was a perception of DJs as vinyl-hugging technophobes who relied on a 20-year-old turntable design and swore by headphones launched in the '80s. It used to be an utterly fair stereotype — after having reviewed the very first Traktor back when it ploughed into the scene, trying to convince my clubland chums that it was “the future” I was met with pity and derision.