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Thievery Corporation return with ‘Saudade,’ an ode to music's ability to wring beauty from sadness...

Thievery Corporation resides on opposite sides of the North American continent. The duo’s Eric Hilton remains in its original home of Washington DC while the...

French duo Amine Edge & DANCE bring their G-House to the DJ Mag Miami party...

Amine Edge & DANCE are on a mission. Coming up from the not-so-mean streets of Marseilles, the production/DJ duo bonded as kids over a shared...

Exclusive studio access

How have you developed as an artist during your production and DJing career?
“That’s a tough question right away from the start, how have I...

The return of the Angel!

Dave is resolutely BACK — but where has he been?

Red Bull Music Accademy

DJ Mag was fortunate to sit in on this year's Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) over in New York where we got to mix it up in their state-of-the-art studio and share some quality time with some of the participants, lecturers and fellow music-lovers who happened to drop in over the month-long extravaganza.

The seminal tracks that altered dance music forever

“We loved electronic sounds, really,” adds Phil. “With synthesisers it was like, ‘What made that sound?’ It was that sort of search – for electronic sounds and drum machines.”



Categorise him at your peril

Try to categorise Dismantle at your peril. Like his name alludes, the Brighton-based producer has been taking apart the genre boundaries at the seams and engineering his own unique blends of bass-heavy influences — which range from jump-up drum & bass and bleeping Dutch house to Bugz In The Attic-esque breakbeat and classic reggae. 


Planet Mu boss on his past present and future

Making his name in the 1990s as a melodic avant-garde electronic producer using pseudonyms such as u-Ziq, Jake Slazenger and Tusken Raiders, Mike Paradinas was a peer of experimental artists such as Luke Vibert, Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. In fact, he did an album with Richard D. James (Aphex), 'Expert Knob Twiddlers' as Mike & Rich, in the mid-'90s — the two producers were pictured on the cover playing Connect 4 — before launching his acclaimed Planet Mu label.


Alive and kicking

Ableton’s award-winning software is now up to version 9, but will it still stand up against its uber slick production rivals? DJ Mag sneak a crafty peek...

The full story ahead of Bloc London series launch

While the Bloc 2012 catastrophe has been widely documented, speculated to high heaven by bloggers, journalists and hordes of self-appointed pundits on Twitter, the actual reasons for the event's failure remain a little unclear to most. We sat down with Bloc's George Hull for the full story...

DJ Mag chat with Toolroom bossman Mark Knight

Mark Knight has come a long way since smashing tunes out of his parent's converted shed as a nipper (ever wondered why it's called Toolroom...

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...

The new NS6 Itch controller from Numark is hard not to love, and with Serato’s Itch 2 software imminent, this is looking like a match...

The latest collaboration between industry giants Numark and Serato, the NS6 has landed, and this brand-new shiny controller for Serato’s Itch software is bound to...

Wacom’s Nextbeat 1000 all-in-one DJing device is out to totally transform how DJs work the crowd. But will it please, or is it just a...

Wacom are not your usual DJ kit manufacturer. In fact they are one of the leading lights in the computer tablet and touchpad market so...

At Home With: Danny Daze

Miami bass and electro innovator Danny Daze takes DJ Mag’s Megan Venzin on a tour of his home studio and some lesser-known pockets of his hometown, and chats about his Cuban-American heritage, and mentoring the creators of South Florida’s next big sound

Danny Daze might be known for redefining Miami bass, but an actual bass is not what DJ Mag expects to see when we pull up...