From 2007 to 2012, London promoters Eat Your Own Ears hosted Underage Festival at Victoria Park. Open to young people aged between 13 and 17...
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Kasra on ten years of Critical Records
Back in 2002 on a sofa somewhere in North London, the concept of a new label was being brewed in the mind of a young DJ named Kasra, a hazy vision that became a reality after an intoxicated conversation with some colleagues.
Mixed up in The Hague
It's impossible to overstate The Hague's impact on dance music. In the early '90s, this small city in northern Holland crafted a bastardised version of the sounds bubbling out of Detroit, a ravey mash of jacking house and techno that, at the time, sounded almost impossibly futuristic.
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Beyond the clubs and festivals, Miami has a vast number of great restaurants, cafes, bars and diverse attractions to offer. Here are our recommendations, with...
New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but with lax liquor laws that allow for drinking until 5am, and a cornucopia...
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Riva Starr tells us the songs which shaped his career...
Audacious Italian DJ/producer Riva Starr lives in London's trendy quarter, Hoxton. And when he's not hot-trotting across the club circuit, or mixing up a storm...
Ableton have produced a lavish new book full of tips for electronic music producers.
There's a heap of DiY information online these days. One of the clear benefits of our brave new digital world is the glut of YouTube...
AKAI's latest hardware releases are going to delight Serato DJ fans...
It is no secret that the makers of the two leading DJing platforms, namely Serato and Native Instruments, are in fierce competition with each...
DJ Mag grabs a chat with DJ/producer Ben Pearce just before he takes the 20-minute walk from his Manchester home to his studio.
DJ Mag grabs a chat with DJ/producer Ben Pearce just before he takes the 20-minute walk from his Manchester home to his studio. He's got...
A handy USB Hub and a cool way to protect your Digital DJing accessories, this is the new UDG Creator DIGI Hardcase...
The advent of laptop DJing brought a massive smile to the faces of travel-weary DJs who have spent a large portion of their lives lugging...
Kings of the road
Once upon a time DJs roamed the planet with boxes filled with enough vinyl to cripple a sherpa and synthesisers that were so big and heavy they required two roadies to wrestle them onto the stage. Fortunately, these days, all it takes is a laptop with a couple of controllers plugged into the USB ports to do the job. Korg have been around since the beginning of the electronic music revolution, and while once they were manufacturers of hardware behemoths, they have kept abreast of the times by releasing a wide range of products in both hardware and software formats, from bulky workstation synthesisers designed to live in a studio to their micro range of keyboards, which are the perfect size and weight to be taken on the road.
Steinberg’s WaveLab 7 sets tongues wagging in the studio world
Steinberg first released WaveLab in 1995, and since then it has been at the forefront of audio editing and mastering software. It has been a...
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
It’s not often that we become excitable. In fact it’s a downright rare sight to see raised eyebrows and excited conversation when a new product...
Magda talks women in dance music, new event series PERM and her just-launched tequila brand...
Words: DANI DEAHL Pics: CORNELIA THONHAUSER & LEANDRO QUINTERO
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Nova made history last year when she became the first grime artist to win Scottish Album of the Year. An MC who wears her heart...
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Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story
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There’s been an explosion of tools for extracting stems in recent years. DJ Mag’s digital tech editor Declan McGlynn outlines five of the best below