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Jaye Ward, Honey Dijon, JD Samson, Mandidextrous and DJ Sprinkles talk gender identity, safe spaces, privilege and the power of the internet...

Words: JOE ROBERTS // Pics: JEF McMAHAN, COMATONSE RECORDINGS

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“Trans is so hot right now,” chuckles Jaye Ward, the Hackney-based DJ whose lineage of...

Junction 2 announces new location and date for 2022 festival

The London festival will now take place in Trent Park from 18th-19th June

London’s Junction 2 festival has announced a change of location and date for its 2022 festival. Now taking place on 18th and 19th June, the...

We discover the story behind The Audio Institute & more...

“Welcome to the CNN of Haiti!” DJ Mag USA has just landed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and thanks to a combination of natural disasters and...

Yup, seriously!

Fyre Festival will go down as one of the the most disastrous festivals in history, after party-goers who paid thousands of dollars for tickets were...

DJ Mag premieres Whitehead's new techno documentary.

 

The concept album carries a lot of baggage with it. Invariably, it conjures up images of bloated, cape-wearing prog rock dinosaurs performing 20-minute solos...

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Victoria Park, London on Saturday 19th July

Five weeks after the buzz of Field Day, it's Lovebox's turn to woo East London's festival ravers.

The weather might have held out for...

Bass aficionado Freq Nasty tastes the delights of Goa's fifth Sunburn Festival

What do Pete Tong and thread-finned salmon have in common? They both make a ton of cash for local fishermen in the Indian seaside state...

74. Crosstown Rebels


Damian Lazarus's rebel house scallywags descend on Downtown Miami for some depraved after-hours wrongness at their Get Lost party. A 5am -...

For many, travelling outside of the UK or Europe for a festival seems like a pipedream, but getting away to a shindig can be a...

MAMBY ON THE BEACH

THE only beach festival on offer in the Windy City makes the most of its unique status with sets from rapper...

There were plenty of great artist albums released in our scene this year, more than ably demonstrating how the long-player format is still crucially important...

50. Ellen Allien ‘Nost’
BPitch Control

49. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas ‘Square One’
Smalltown Supersound

48. Sense MC ‘The Elephant In The Room’
Diffrent Music

47. Beastie...

With an hour of shimmering ambience and razor sharp club clubs, Chevel shakes up the Fresh Kicks series 

“A guy on Twitter sent me a trap beat made with my burp sample,” says Chevel. “I loved it.”

The gift wasn’t unprompted. In December...

With Andy Moor & Tydi

If there is a temple of electronic dance music in Los Angeles, it is Avalon. Located in the heart of Hollywood, the theater housing it...

A flight of fantasy for any performing DJ...

At any festival or rave, one of the most essential bits of kit has to be the stage. The bigger the event, the more awe-inspiring...

The on-the-road diary of the world's top DJs treading the globe

Showcasing fresh house cuts from Hot Since 82, Eats Everything and Shadow Child (among others), Jaymo and Andy George's 'Moda Black Vol. 1' revealed the duo's interest in darker, more demure sounds of the house spectrum when it landed last summer.