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DJ Couza

Get to know Bloemfontein, South Africa's DJ Couza, the DJ and producer fusing deep house with indigenous African sounds

We’ve said it many times in these pages, but it bears repeating — some of the most soul-stirring house music around is coming out of...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

On her new album for Berghain’s Ostgut Ton label, ‘A World Of Service’, Spanish producer, DJ and live artist JASSS defies rigid forms. Genre barriers...

For long-serving Berlin techno queen Ellen Allien, a return to the physical — in both the way she plays and makes music — has re-energised...

She's been playing gigs in record shops, buying and playing lots of vinyl, and made her new album, 'Nost', using mainly analogue equipment. Her seventh...

Using data from Top 100 DJs voters and house/techno Beatport purchases, we present the Alternative Top 100 DJs 2019 

Last year, we launched the DJ Mag Alternative Top 100 DJs poll, in association with Beatport, generated by combining Top 100 DJs voting data with...

Overmono's Ed and Tom photographed by Rollo Jackson 2

After years in the UK underground as solo artists, brothers Tom and Ed Russell, formerly known as Truss and Tessela, have made huge strides as a duo in recent years as Overmono. Lauren Martin learns how they’ve built a sound and A/V live show that taps into UK dance music legacies, all while staying true to themselves

When Tom and Ed Russell moved into their studio in 2018, they felt the weight of UK dance music history. Housed in the deep south-eastern...

2019 saw dancefloors embracing fast, syncopated and experimental rhythms, with jungle breaks and sounds from the Global South invigorating DJs and producers across the genre...

Dancefloor trends come and go. Familiar genre tropes, motifs and tempos reinstate themselves as dominant themes in clubs and festivals big and small, while inventive...

Born in Jamaica around half a century ago, dancehall music has found fans, artists and chart-topping success all around the globe in the decades since...

Dancehall music has been the driving force in my career. As a DJ, I’ve played most if not all genres of music on radio and...

We met him in London to talk about his dance epiphany, the importance of staying true to your vision, and giving his fans what they...

“Everything I do, I see myself as a bit of an outsider, I'm not strictly within the dance music world, I'm not strictly within the...

Compilation Of The Month: Mind Against ‘fabric presents Mind Against’

Italian duo Mind Against deliver an immersive and precisely-designed mix of contemporary house and techno with a nearly spiritual lilt for fabric presents series

Since relaunching under the ‘fabric presents’ banner, the UK clubbing institution fabric has reached a new high. All three mixes have been celebrations of the...

FN Meka

The major label has issued a statement offering its “deepest apologies to the Black community”

Capitol Records has severed ties with the "AI rapper" FN Meka amid backlash over racial stereotyping. The major label announced the signing earlier this month...

In her latest column, E.M.M.A. looks at those all-important techniques for making your music more human

Listen to anyone who was making electronic tunes in the old days (1998) and you’ll often hear how much of a faff it was. “Analogue...

Ahead of a new tour and album, the visionary Manchester crew recall the making and impact of their acid house classic...

Graham Massey and Andy Barker take their places at a table in the first floor restaurant at Manchester arts institution HOME, just a stone’s throw away...

<p>Hercules &amp; Love Affair’s new album is a neo disco, four-to-the-floor opus&nbsp;</p>

It might be a long time since the word discotheque was shortened to ‘disco’ and nightclubbing became ‘clubbing’, then ‘raving’, but in all that time...

Hercules & Love Affair’s new album features songs about heartbreak, love, freedom and feminism.

It might be a long time since the word discotheque was shortened to ‘disco’ and nightclubbing became ‘clubbing’, then ‘raving’, but in all that time...

Ikonika's back with a fresh electro-funk sound.

Far from retro, she's dragged us into a new digital dimension. We talk pop, reshaping history and optimistic futures with one of the world's most forward-thinking producers...