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We peer inside the world of Pan-Pot...

Some things in life just happen; the stars align or elements combine for a perfect chemical reaction. That's Pan-Pot. Meeting in their early 20s by...

Some industry insiders are predicting that next year could be a huge year for house music. Trends suggest young people are abandoning hip hop, grime...

Some industry insiders are predicting that house music will become the next big urban movement, blud.

Paul McKenzie, editor of Touch Magazine, one of the...

Documentary by Lil’ Louis seeks to find the answer

The SHM star played at Ushuaïa Ibiza on Friday (7th September)...

Steve Angello has claimed that ”Swedish House Mafia is back“ during his show at Tomorrowland presents Garden of Madness at Ushuaïa Ibiza. You can watch...

Insane footage from Future Classic’s ten year anniversary

Five thousand fans turned out to Sydney’s Opera House to watch Flume back in May, and now new footage from the gig is up online...

Cynic Music boss digs up some vocal gems!

Felix Dickinson's new tune is sensational. Out on Futureboogie this month, it's been on heavy rotation in the DJ Mag office over the last few...

Michael Watford, legendary house music singer, dies

The prolific gospel-trained vocalist worked with the likes of Masters At Work, Kerri Chandler and En Vogue, and was part of the early Jersey house scene

Legendary house vocalist Michael Watford has died. The American singer's son Solomon Watford announced the news on Sunday, 28th January, via Facebook, confirming the date...

The dance scene owes much to gay culture...

 

Earlier this year, Lithuanian producer Ten Walls was riding on a wave of global love with his big-room smasher ‘Walking With Elephants’. Then, in...

Alkan’s ‘Reworks’ out early November...

Daft Punk’s ‘The Brainwasher’ is set to receive an Erol Alkan ‘Horrorhouse Dub’ rework. The remix is one of 20 set to appear on Alkan’s...

It wasn’t their song and they didn’t play any instruments, but Saint Etienne’s Balearic classic ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ caught the tailwind of...

In a period when the divide between the UK’s club scene and indie kids was as wide as it was bitter, Saint Etienne managed to...

DJ Mag North America trips out to Vietnam, to discover why South East Asia is fast becoming an unmissable hub for dance music culture, premium...

The rain is lashing down, it’s 8am, and Ricardo Villalobos is in full flow, wearing his usual green tank top and taking a few hundred hardened...

New “house and electronic” music club, Virgo, opens in Manhattan

The Lower East Side has a new 3,000-square foot nightclub fitted with a VOID soundsystem imported from the UK

There's a new nightclub in Manhattan aimed at "house and electronic" music fans. Virgo, located at 324 Grand Street on the Lower East Side, is...

The awards ceremony took place at Amsterdam ArenA on Saturday (21st October)...

Claptone has been revealed as the winner of the Highest House category in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. The DJ/producer came in...

The Boys Own founder and all-round UK legend hits Farr Festival next month...

Terry Farley takes the helm of the DJ Mag Podcast this week, delivering 90-minutes of music that showcases exactly where house music is at for...

Photo of DESIREE wearing a purple hat and eye-makeup on an emerald background

Soaring ascents, the kind that can take an artist from obscurity to stardom in what seems to be the blink of an eye, don’t occur often, in dance music or elsewhere – those who are lucky enough to have that experience often disappear just as quickly. But there’s little chance of a quick fade for South Africa’s Palesa Desiree Shilabje, the DJ and producer known to the world as DESIREE, who in just a few short years has proved to be one of the international festival circuit’s most exciting new stars. Here, Bruce Tantum hears her story, and about how her evolution through music has been as organic as they come

“I’m finally home.” Those three words are among the first that the South African DJ and producer Palesa Desiree Shilabje utters when DJ Mag catches...