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Liverpool's Chibuku has been mixing it up for a whole decade now. DJmag looks back...

LEGENDARY is a word that gets bandied about so lazily that it's just about lost all meaning, but in the case of Liverpool's Chibuku —...

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The funding of independent radio stations is always precarious, but the current cost-of-living and energy crises threaten their survival. Following the shuttering of Worldwide FM and Bristol’s SWU FM, we look at the challenges facing these beloved cultural lifelines

UK independent radio is one of the most important aspects of DJ culture and the dance music scene. It plays a vital part in driving...

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Featuring Colin Benders, Honey Dijon, Hyperaktivist, Luke Slater, Octo Octa and more

The organisers of Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) have shared a new mini-documentary celebrating “the intrinsic value of club culture, electronic music, raving, and all the...

WMC 2010 shapes up

Forget your token gym membership this New Year and start saving instead for 2010's Miami Winter Music Conference. Because there's nothing to motivate shedding that...

We'll be left of that pillar again... 

These are the Top 30 UK club events in November 2017, proving Britain's electronic landscape is far healthier than its economy right now. 

In London, scientist...

One year on from our Women In Dance Music issue, we ask the question...

Almost one year ago to the day, DJ Mag published a Women In Dance Music issue. I know, because I edited it. We put New...

With summer's subterranean smash tune ‘Jack’ signed to a major and chart success beckoning, Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, tells us how he’s heading for the...

Pop music has always run from the sublime to the irredeemable. The charts have rotated from gold to grot since the dawn of the Hit Parade, and the model doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. So whilst there are always dark periods when commercial radio is little more than a cemetery of tired ideas, dug up and forced to fandango one more time, every now and then a new generation of musicians kick down the door, reset the rules, and party ‘til the lights come on.

Theo Parrish enters the live realm with a full band as part of the Barbican's Digital Revolution festival. But does the traditional band set-up suit...

London's Barbican Complex never fails to make a big impression. A combined arts and cultural centre forming a nucleus within tower blocks and the lower...

We meet the elusive Glaswegian artist — and a host of his close confidantes — to talk about his new album, how the Glasgow scene...

Master of futuristic electronic sounds Rustie is back with a new album. Last time with 'Glass Swords' he changed the game, and his new one...

NikNak Sankofa

The Leeds-based DJ and producer is also embarking on a UK tour

NikNak has announced a new album, 'Sankofa', which will be released on 1st July. Billed as an "immersive turntablism-produced" record, the Leeds-based artist's latest outing...

The fifth annual edition of Electric Forest returns to Rothbury, Michigan

The iconic Electric Forest music and camping festival has been hailed as one of the 'best music festivals in the world' by tastemakers and the...

Croatia's crown jewel, Hideout, announces another 30 acts for round two...

Having wedged itself firmly into the affections of the European party army with its first party on the golden shores of the Island of Pag...

Dirtybird take their low end theory on the road

If there’s been one trend that’s wheedled its way into all corners of electronic music in the last two years, it’s bass. Indecent ladles full of the stuff, speaker stacks positively groaning with the strain of lowdown, filling-rattling subsSan Francisco’s techno overlord Claude VonStroke is incubating a nest full of underground club killers in 2012, set to hatch and dive-bomb clubs Angry Birds-style

Kelly Lee Owens shares a breathtaking hybrid mix including 30 minutes of her Underworld support slot and 30 minutes of home recording. We catch up...

Kelly Lee Owens doesn’t believe in compromise. As renowned for her interest in exploring spirituality and sound’s potential healing properties as she is for laying...

More major artists set to rock Clapham Common this August Bank Holiday Weekend

Words: Bianca Mitchell

It looks like the first hints of summer are finally here and what better way to gear up for the sunshine than...