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Bringing eclectic wonders to India's western shores...

The inaugural GOAT Festival lands in Goa, western India this January, keeping the hippie spirit alive with an eclectic line-up of house, jazz and world...

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F9 Audio founder and electronic music authority James Wiltshire turns his attention to techno in the latest installment of Point Blank’s Style Guide series.

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“We cannot support much more increase in tourism”...

Local government officials in Ibiza have warned that it will be unable to handle increases in tourism in the future, due to pressures being place...

Photo of Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter DJing sitting on a green sofa in a pink-lit warehouse

In early 2009, Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter launched Mister Saturday Night. The party formed the roots of what would eventually become the beloved nightspot Nowadays, a “by us, for us” club that’s become a community hub for NYC’s nightlifers. Following the release of a sprawling box-set to mark the party’s 15th anniversary, and alongside a mix recorded live from the club, Harkin, Carter and a few of the compilation’s featured artists fill us in on what makes Mister Saturday Night so special

It began, as many projects do, because of a nagging discontent with the way that things were. It was the late ’00s, and New York...

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From the golden age of rave to your living room

This saturday, 4th April, a virtual ‘90s-inspired rave will be live streamed online.

The stream will be hosted on the Facebook page of Scottish festival,...

Pete Tong's Essential Selection

“Time is always my biggest battle,” states voice of the dance music nation, Pete Tong. “Finding the time to do it all and have the right head space to listen to so much music, you have to be on the case!” And he certainly was on the case again in 2012, picking up the DJ Mag gong for Best Radio Show for his tireless work on the Essential Selection each and every week.

With Satoshi Tomiie's new compilation for <a href="http://www.renaissance.com">Renaissance's</a&gt; Master Series out now we asked the deep house don to tell us about his top 10 favourite...

1. 'Letting You Down' Shur-I-Kan


"This is the kind of sound I call 'modern deep house'. The track has a nice deep groove and clever...

The club has also shared a statement regarding refunds

London club The Cause has announced that it will not reopen until further notice, as the global outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues to spread...

The Scottish DJ/producer was interviewed on Apple Music’s Beats 1 again last week...

Calvin Harris has admitted that he feels he is doing a “disservice” to himself by not allowing the influence of UK house music feed into...

Orlando's totally enormous comp for Crosstown wins the gong for best mix...

Orlando Higginbottom — better known by his ‘stage name’ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs — is remembering the first mix compilation he ever did.

“When I...

Avicii talks Miami, music, and Penguin.

Swedish producer and DJ Avicii burst onto the music scene at the tender age of 18. In 2010, his single 'Seek Bromance' was a House...

Lee Burridge will invade New York, LA, and Mexico City this Autumn as his 365 world tour enters its final stage.

DJmag.com columnist and all round bad guy Lee Burridge has announced the autumn residencies for his '365' world tour, which has been such a success...

Akanbi crouching on a rock in a river, surrounded by lush woodland. He's wearing black trainers, shades and green speedos

Moving effortlessly through a range of tempos and flavours, the NYC-based, Lagos-raised DJ Akanbi demonstrates his party-starting sound with a live recording from New Year’s Day at Nowadays, and speaks to Michael McKinney about the evolution of his GROOVY GROOVY events, and taking the dancefloor somewhere new with his anything-goes approach

Andrew Akanbi has been throwing parties for over a decade. His event series, GROOVY GROOVY, has a simple yet expansive ethos. Ticking each phrase off...

MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum &amp; bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...

“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” 
Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.