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...
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The United Kingdom of rave returns
House is still topping the UK charts; the EDM beast is mutating and consuming every thing in its path. Never before has there been so...
Bob Sinclar has cultivated the image of a French international playboy over the many years.
He's been involved in house music, although in truth he is quite the family man. Now living in LA, he tells DJ Mag here the story of why he chose these tracks for this issue's covermount mix, where he digs for sample sources, and exactly what else he's been up to lately...
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DJ Mag heads to Ghana to explore a rapidly expanding, festival- driven scene that, while rooted on pop and traditional sounds, is beginning to open...
March is an important month in Ghana’s calendar; it’s when the West African country celebrates gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1957. The month...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
We talk to DAM FUNK about musical evolution, how music can offer escape, and Los Angeles' distinctive sound...
Amen, hallelujah and you’re absolutely goddamned right: Damon G. Riddick AKA DAM FUNK is spot on in both his diagnosis and proposed curative to...
For 20 years, DJmag has been in amongst it, at the vanguard of dance and electronic music culture, commentating, conversing and partying within the scene...
By the middle of 1991, the UK had experienced the biggest youth revolution since punk. Acid house had swept the nation in the late '80s...
From the Minimoog to the Roland TR-808...
Some of the most important innovations in electronic music came about by mistake. Whether it be the way that Roland's TR-808 and then the TR-909...
Why are masks so popular in dance music?
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil...
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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...
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Simian Mobile Disco’s Jas Shaw deals in machine-driven techno delicacies, as his recent ‘Exquisite Cops’ solo album demonstrates. But having swapped the urban surroundings of...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From bass-powered techno, breaks and electro to digicore and synth-scored house, here's...
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The CruCast collective has injected new life into bassline, playing massive venues, touring the world, and spreading positivity. As the major players tell DJ Mag...
We talk to three DJs who have subsequently become mental health & wellbeing practitioners in their own individual ways
Gideon Berger has co-created something amazing with Glastonbury Festival’s Block9 field, but it’s been somewhat to the detriment of his own DJ career. In recent...
It’s mid-summer 1994, and the first anti-Criminal Justice Bill demonstration in Trafalgar Square. There’s over 50,000 ravers packed into the area around the famous London landmark...