South Africa’s ascendance to the forefront of global house music has been something to behold. The SA house scene emerged following liberation from apartheid and...
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The fourth compilation on Kid Fonque’s Stay True Sounds label is an enthralling testament to South Africa’s underground house scene
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Huerco S. returns to Incienso with a landmark album of strange, cascading beats inspired by trap, drill and a childhood love of cars
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They’re touted as a legislative firewall to keep Aussie partygoers safe, but have Australia’s unpopular ‘lockout laws’ irreparably damaged Down Under’s nightlife for good? DJ Mag...
A few weeks ago, a pair of successful Australian DJs wrote a letter. The now-famous note wasn’t to a manager, a booking agent or even...
After a trip to South Africa, an engagement with politics and a need to explore new musical avenues, these Bears have teeth.
“If someone said to you ‘Jesus is drinking in a pub in Elephant and Castle’ you’d go and have a look wouldn’t you?” Well, bearded...
Pioneer. Visionary. Genius. There can be no doubt that Jeff Mills is one of the most significant music producers of the modern age. From co-founding Underground...
The Wizard
An alias that’s often used to describe Jeff Mills today (even though he officially dropped it a few years back), Mills first adopted...
"We came, we raved, and we fucking love you"...
Swedish House Mafia changed the game.
They were the first EDM supergroup to truly transcend the confines of the dance music world. Since the group...
German trance legend Paul van Dyk, former winner of our Top 100 DJs poll, is in back-to-back meetings about his ‘Politics of Dancing 3’ album...
Three years in the making and brought to fruition in a different way to the previous two, it’s a worthy addition to PvD’s impressive discography...
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Get acquainted with Elle Shimada, the Tokyo-born, Melbourne-based artist exploring the meaning of home with luminous electronic beats and shimmering vocals
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Get acquainted with Tapefeed, the London-based Italian duo creating techno with a message
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With a punk attitude, impressive live shows, and an ever-shifting psychedelic yet dancefloor-friendly sound, Red Axes have brought a breath of fresh air to the...
"When the sun is shining, life can be really dark,” says Dori Sadovnik, one half of Israeli gothic dance duo Red Axes. He’s talking about the...
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Sheffield's Cabaret Voltaire were way, way ahead of their time.
Neil Kulkarni talks to founder Richard H Kirk about apathy, necessity and house music...
DJ Mag heads to the Italian birthplace of Marco Carola and Joseph Capriati to pick up the local thread, with Luigi Madonna and his crew
"For us it was... where everything started from. It was in the middle of mountains, so you have that view from the stage. The first time they did a...
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Northern Ireland's clubbing environment has never been more exciting. Nor have its DJs/producers and promoters ever been more a part of the international dance music...
From Stiff Little Fingers, Therapy? and The Undertones to David Holmes, Phil Kieran and The Divine Comedy, Northern Ireland's musical output has, for decades, had...
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With Britain’s Indian summer turning out to be more like the Asian monsoon season, there’s a sense of trepidation as we get out of the...
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A longstanding DJ, curator and booking agent, Lerato Khati AKA Lakuti has been an essential figure of the global underground for over two decades now. We...
A longstanding DJ, curator and booking agent, Lerato Khati AKA Lakuti has been an essential figure of the global underground for over two decades now...