In the modern world, it seems sadly inevitable that any female singer who experiments with dance beats will, at some point, be compared to Björk...
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A rising number of producers are making music that creates a soundtrack to those calmer moments in life. DJ Mag investigates...
Summer is in full swing, Ibiza still rocks and festival season has blossomed into hundreds of live-music infused explosions, happening in far-flung spots all over...
Embarrassing bangers & regrettable records inside...
We all remember the first music we bought, right? Whether it was wax, cassette tape, CD or er... MP3, there's little doubt that your first...
Scorching electro freaks Does It Offend You Yeah? to play live at DJmag Best of British party.
Make sure you get down to London Bridge's SEOne this Friday 29th June for the DJmag Best of British party. We're celebrating the coolest Brit...
Is being fit and healthy mutually exclusive from the hedonistic world of dance music? Or can exercise and late-night club culture happily co-exist? DJ Mag...
DJ culture has long been synonymous with a lively hedonistic lifestyle: late boozy nights, early mornings, days and weeks touring on the road — a...
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Direct discrimination, battling assumptions, lower pay, and a lack of opportunity are just some of the problems laid out by the survey
A new study by Black Lives In Music has revealed that the majority of Black artists and music professionals have faced racism and discrimination in...
For two decades dBridge has been crafting next-level drum & bass, as part of Bad Company, solo, with his label Exit and fellow zeitgeist surfers...
He's made house, electro, techno, done it all, but it's still breakbeat culture he returns to time and time again...
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How Nicolette's ‘Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head’ mapped the future of electronic songwriting
On 1996's ‘Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head’, Scottish singer, songwriter and producer Nicolette worked alongside 4Hero’s Dego, Plaid, Alec Empire and Felix to create an album that mixed jungle, trip-hop, industrial techno and avant-pop into a singular work full of sharp, incisive lyricism. Ben Cardew explores the legacy of the album, and its vision for the future of electronic music
Alex Crawford aka The Others turns reviewer for Dub Police's 10 year event!
This October marked 10 years since Caspa set up Dub Police, and it’s been a pretty crazy 10 years for all involved! Luckily I’ve been...
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The ‘curator of goodness’ at Millionhands is one Tom Mangan, a producer in his own right who started the label when he was living in Berlin. “I’d been making records for a few years and I was restless, I had the urge to do something for my self,” he reveals.
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As we enter a new decade, the ways in which we define electronic music styles are rapidly changing. Chal Ravens explores the etymological evolution of...
Even the top DJs had to learn from someone. In the Top 100 set questions in the preceding pages, we asked all the DJs voted...
This month we’ve learnt who the public have voted as their favourite DJs, but who are the DJs’ favourite DJs? Who inspired them and put them...
MENTAL ARITHEMETIC! SBTRKT’s dope debut is the smartest album of the year
When SBTRKT first emerged in 2009, the parallels with Burial were impossible to avoid. For SBTRKT’s early singles like ‘2020’ or his reworking of Goldie’s...
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...
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From beginners to professionals, here's the mixers with the best bang for your buck...
The humble mixer is a staple part of any DJs set-up but there are a wealth of mixers in all shapes, sizes and prices to...
Counting down the best of DJ 'WTF' moments in 2014
2014: the year of click bait articles and cheesy EDM news everyone loved to hate. From Art Department dissing Laidback Luke to Michelle Obama turning...