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Two Ultra ticketholders have filed a lawsuit against the festival

Ultra Music Festival is being faced with a class action lawsuit from two ticketholders for its cancelled 2020 festival 

Florida residents Samuel Hernandez and Richard...

Richie Hawtin revives his alias for 'EX' and exclusive Sonar gig

In the 1990s Richie Hawtin picked up the techno blueprint and took it to the edges of the universe. As Plastikman he produced an extraordinary...

When Gerd Janson was looking for someone to mix a Running Back compilation to mark 15 years of his quality imprint, he asked a master if he...

The summer of 1981, Brooklyn-born DJ Tony Humphries would compile extended ‘mastermixes’ of the hottest records coming out of (mostly) New York and Chicago for...

Roland’s VR-5 is a little box of delights that’s bringing club nights into the homes of party-goers everywhere. Now you never have to miss the...

Popular London hotspot, Fabric are keen to push the clubbing boundaries and also spread their reach out to as many clubbers as possible. To this...

The alien sound of Holger Behn

"I am from space,” Holger Behn, better known to most as H.O.S.H., explains to DJ Mag.

It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...

“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

In describing one of his Selections, Berlin-based Lebanese artist and Morphine Records boss Rabih Beaini describes his DJ style as “harsh and powerful, but still...

Dez Parkes, tastemaking London soul and rare groove DJ, has died

In addition to reigniting the rare groove revival with a beloved late-'80s compilation series, Parkes was also known for his deep knowledge of music with a rumoured 50,000+ collection to back it up

London record collector, compiler and DJ Dez Parkes has died. Fitzroy Facey, co-founder of The Soul Survivors magazine, shared the news to Facebook last Friday...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

We talk to the idiosyncratic producer ahead of his new album for FlyLo's label

A visual artist as well as a musician, Mtendere Mandowa knows there are always different ways of looking at things. In fact, it’s only recently...

The cover of Vikter Duplaix's DJ-Kicks record

In 2002, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Viktor Duplaix debuted his entry for K7! Records DJ-Kicks series, blending some of the best broken beat of the era. Here, Ben Cardew explores the compilation's lasting legacy
 

There aren’t enough musicians like Vikter Duplaix. Maybe there never were. Duplaix, a singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ from Philadelphia, dresses like a blasted supernova...

With a new album for Ninja just out, we attempt to unravel the idiosyncrasies of the man behind the music...

To describe Andy Carthy as a one-off is probably to understate the situation. He designs all his own album covers and artwork. He's launched his...

Photo of François K on a white background

After nearly five decades in music, nobody could blame François Kevorkian for taking it easy. But that’s not in the France-born, NYC-based polymath’s DNA. Shortly after celebrating his 70th birthday, Bruce Tantum hears his story, and learns about the curiosity and drive that keeps him going

As soon as he sits down for a long conversation with DJ Mag, François Kevorkian, the NYC-based dance-music polymath universally known as François K, brings...

Australian-based producer spills beans on debut album

Last week we featured a video exclusive of 'Reset', a track from 'Speed of Life', the forthcoming debut album from Australia-based producer Dirty South...

DJmag.com investigates the possibility of a rock revolution in Ibiza, the summer heartbeat of the dance industry.

Cast your minds back to when you were at school, and in particular the unwrittenplayground rules that demanded you choose between becoming a Raver or...