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NAFF presents Naïve, Terminal V and Bristol's Simple Things top this month's heady list...
It has been a month of difficult decisions for many. Not least the DJ Mag team, who had to try and figure out how...
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
When we speak with Nightwave, she has just spent the past week on a shamanastic Huni Kuin retreat in a Scottish forest. The Huni Kuin...
From the ongoing refinement of house and disco, to techno's domination of the mainstream, the return of electro, ebm and new wave, and the resurgence...
50. Joe
‘Tail Lift’
Hessle Audio
49. The Black Madonna
‘He Is The Voice I Hear’
We Still Believe
48. Medlar
‘Shake It’
For Discos...
The youth vote could make all the difference in a close-run campaign...
DJs are urging young people to vote in the UK election, which takes place this Thursday 8th June.
In recent times, more than half of...
Ready to talk openly about her traverses as a trans DJ, we sit down and get to know Octo Octa over Skype...
Shortly after coming out as transgender, Brooklyn’s Octo Octa released ‘Where Are We Going’ on Honey Soundsystem, an exceptionally classy piano-led house/techno album on which she embraces...
It's been another bumper year for quality dancefloor tracks. Here's our discerning pick of the best...
Bicep, Koze and Woolford are just a few names that have become reassuringly prevalent in our end-of-year pages in recent times — and, yes, there's...
With one of the biggest house hits of 2014 under his belt and a growing DJ rep, Patrick Topping is the latest Hot Creations crew...
“Meet me at the club,” urges the male vocal on Green Velvet & Patrick Topping’s ‘Voicemail’, the still-hot tech house update of the 2000-released original...
<p>All shapes and sizes on the mainland once again...</p>
Emerging Ibiza
Stars of the future
The seminal tracks that changed dance music forever
As was the case in many towns and cities in the UK in the late '80s, a sizeable portion of the youth of Stafford were infected with the rave bug. More or less equidistant between London and Manchester in the West Midlands (18 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, 16 miles north of Wolverhampton), Stafford became notable for spawning two of the rave scene’s most successful acts – Altern8 and Bizarre Inc. And then, later, Chicken Lips too.
Underground and overground, Marc Kinchen is on top again
'Don't call it a come back', sang LL Cool J, and he might well have been talking about MK, aka Marc Kinchen. Detroit...
If you only go out once this month, make sure it’s to one of these...
1. TORQUE
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Rd, , London SE17 1LB
IF RELENTLESS INDUSTRIAL BEATS, post apocalytic soundscapes and robo-crunk melodies blasting on a...
Running the musical gamut from minimal techno to abstract hip-hop, dubstep to Baile funk, via ska, electro pop, house and Balearica, Sonar truly has something...
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Can Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave, really do no wrong? Not content with simply knocking out the funkiest techno and most mind-twisting house with...
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, NIKS spotlights ‘90s techno, vocal house and percussive club bangers
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Radiant Love resident and co-founder Byron Yeates records a mix of peak time rave euphoria for the Fresh Kicks series