When Native Instruments first released Maschine, it was attempting to fill a gap. Computers had become powerful enough to supersede hardware-packed studios that came before...
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Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and...
“100% Silk has always been about feeling over functionality,” says Britt Brown, who founded the Los Angeles label in 2011 with Amanda Brown. “The music...
Special studio edition of hipster headphones de jour.
AiAiAi's original endeavor into the headphone market was very well received by the hipster DJs and fashion-conscious music lover. Even Stevie Wonder was spotted with a pair perched neatly on his head.
DJmag is swallowed into the audible vortex that is the new Kaoss pad 3 and pulled out the whole with some frontline reports from Product.01
When the original KP (Kaoss Pad) landed it split the music tech world in two, some saw it as a mere toy, while others embraced...
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Native Instruments’ Maschine+ is an ambitious project; remodelling the popular hardware and software groovebox combo to operate as a standalone production unit. DJ Mag's Digital...
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This evergreen breakbeat hardcore missive influenced the likes of The Prodigy and the whole of the early UK rave scene. Ben Murphy charts its story...
“I saw that record go from street level and get bigger and bigger, and there was no video for it, no promotion, nothing,” says Renegade Soundwave’s Danny...
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Theo Kottis
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If you haven't seen Theo Kottis' name about town yet, it won't be long until you do. Picked for Groovefest...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From future-facing UKG and electro to funk-infused liquid d&b and warehouse-ready breaks...
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Our end-of-year list compiling 2018's biggest tracks...
2018 has been a huge year for electronic music.
The industry is the biggest its ever been, both within a globally thriving underground and on...
IMS lands in Singapore
The 2014 International Music Summit (IMS) Asia-Pacific was held on December 11th, in the prestigious W Sentosa Cove, Singapore. The summit is the first of...
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Art galleries can be a fairly tedious carry on. An orgy of intellectual chin-strokery with the sole aim of would-be critics raising...
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Tackling extraordinary challenges and pitfalls in his life, Detroit’s Robert Hood is a passionate advocate for the transformative power of electronic music. An ordained Christian minister, we meet him in Berlin after...
In the early hours of the morning on November 10, 1938, anti-Semitic rioting raged across Nazi Germany, in a pogrom that saw more than 100 Jews killed and 267...
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Dublin’s Jordan Rafferty AKA DART steps up for the Fresh Kicks series with an eclectic mix of dreamy techno, vocal-heavy cuts and progressive club sounds, and speaks with DJ Mag’s Amy Fielding about emotive breakdowns, early inspirations, and AVA Festival
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Whether he’s making garage, bassline, tech-house or grime, DJ and producer Preditah’s sound is unmistakable. With his new tunes ‘Glucose’ and ‘Don’t Cry’ making waves...
Stanton’s new MIX! software is ideal for reviving the lost art of the mixtape, but what other uses does it have?
Stanton’s new MIX! software is a slightly different take on DJing in the digital domain. It’s not out to replace or even threaten Serato, Native...
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Over the past two decades, West London DJ and producer T.Williams has worn many hats, from his roots in grime and jungle through to spells in garage and soulful melodic house. His recently released debut album, ‘Raves Of Future Past’, finds him freed from all limitations, and pays tribute to this wide-ranging career. Here, Ben Murphy speaks to him about writing songs versus bangers, the freedom of expression of the early 2000s era, and how he made his classic track ‘Heartbeat’ with Terri Walker