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A lack of data, information, and will has left electronic music producers lagging way behind their commercial counterparts. DJ Mag outlines how that happened, how...

In July 2018, DJ Mag published a feature on why streaming in the booth will change DJing forever. It included this: “It’s an open secret...

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We spotlight 10 sets at Ultra at the tail-end of Miami Music Week that you definitely cannot skip

Depending on when you last checked it out, Ultra Miami is not what you think. Once the reserve of chart-topping dance stars, EDM bigwigs and...

With his DJ sets and productions that meld grime, techno, jungle and avant-garde experimentalism, Mumdance is one of the most original artists in UK dance...

Few DJs represent the spirit of UK dance music like Jack Adams does. A lifelong student of hardcore, drum & bass and grime, he is...

As healthier lifestyles have become more prevalent in the dance music industry, some have turned to the legal compound CBD for its benefits. But who uses it...

It’s Monday morning, and the painful cocktail of a weekend club life and weekday deadlines hits hard. Focus seems impossible and every platform is bleeping...

With summer's subterranean smash tune ‘Jack’ signed to a major and chart success beckoning, Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, tells us how he’s heading for the...

Pop music has always run from the sublime to the irredeemable. The charts have rotated from gold to grot since the dawn of the Hit Parade, and the model doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. So whilst there are always dark periods when commercial radio is little more than a cemetery of tired ideas, dug up and forced to fandango one more time, every now and then a new generation of musicians kick down the door, reset the rules, and party ‘til the lights come on.

On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...

Patience is a rare thing in dance music. Subtlety, even more so. With so much new music emerging in an ever-changing cultural landscape, it can...

It's not just the Football that's putting Brazil in the spotlight...

“Brazil is having a bit of a moment,” says Flow, the female half of the Rio-based girlfriend-and-boyfriend house DJ/production duo Flow & Zeo.
“Something exciting...

Leon Vynehall sculpts a mix of experimental sounds, smoky house and peak-time techno for the On Cue series, and speaks to Ray Philp about finding...

As a show of solidarity to support the artists and labels impacted through the global pandemic, we are launching a weekly roundup of the most...

The global pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has had a devastating impact on our scene, leading to the cancellation of countless club nights and...

With his house-focused project Jack Back, David Guetta has returned to the sound that first got him fired up about dance music. In his DJ Mag...

On October 19th last year, David Guetta went out onto the main stage at Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF) in the Johan Cruijf f ArenA, where...

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The upcoming live shows will be “raw, punky, and vibrant” and “a tribute to music and connection”

Faithless have announced their upcoming tour, and confirmed that new music is coming “soon”. Returning after an eight-year live hiatus, the legendary English electronic act...

Before his death in 1982, Patrick Cowley produced some of the American gay underground's most thrilling dance music, from chart-topping disco to radical club tracks...

There’s a notorious scene in 1980 thriller Cruising that might be the best fictional time capsule we have of a wanton, unfettered gay dance floor...

Gomma Records’ boss Munk has hooked up with some of the world’s hottest underground female vocalists for his new production album. DJmag finds out more...

“I like my jeans to be dirty and I like my music to be dirty too,” says Munk, aka Mathais Modica, co-owner of experimental dance...

On the history of dubstep and 'Fabriclive 61'...

Pinch, aka Rob Ellis, boss of the trail-blazing Tectonic Records, is one of a few heads in a unique position to dissect the...

Once focused on the techno of Detroit, Joris Voorn’s latter-day productions have conquered his native Holland, Ibiza and the world. While some have accused him...

From a devotee of Detroit to becoming the leading light of the Dutch underground scene, Joris Voorn’s ascent has been as methodical and measured as...