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A new club project will see an old brewery warehouse in Manchester transformed into a rave paradise.

Forget purpose-built superclubs - an old brewery in central Manchester will be the heartbeat for cutting-edge dance music when the city's Warehouse Project launches on...

DJmag.com chatted to Defected Records' boss Simon Dunmore about Ibiza, and running club nights at Pacha.

When Pacha poached Defected from El Divino last year, the harbour-side club was not happy.

During their two-year tenure, Defected had become El Divino's flagship...

Ministry Of Sound has been fighting to remain credible in the last few years. It's been struggling, but a change in its Friday night's music...

A lot has happened at Ministry Of Sound since it first opened its doors inLondon in 1991.

During the early 1990s, Britain's original superclub turned...

DJmag reports on the decision by Ibiza's seven big clubs to stop competing with one another...

Everyone from hardcore ravers to clubbing dabblers had Ibiza top of their summer 'to do' list in the late 1990s.

Now the number of visitors...

We met him in London to talk about his dance epiphany, the importance of staying true to your vision, and giving his fans what they...

“Everything I do, I see myself as a bit of an outsider, I'm not strictly within the dance music world, I'm not strictly within the...

Castlemorton 1992: photographing the Illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever

It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...

While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...

Whether celebrating individuals and movements that helped shaped where dance music culture is today, or commemorating everything coronavirus took from us in spring 2020, the...

Paranoid London are on a mission to bring back the rawness of old house, with their skeletal acid tracks and Chicago-influenced beats. We head to...

It’s not just the scorching temperature that’s causing us to sweat, as we wander around the back streets of Hackney trying to locate Paranoid London’s...

Here’s the best tech of 2016, as demo’d at the DJ Mag Tech Awards last month... 

September saw DJ Mag celebrate its 20th anniversary of the Tech Awards at BPM | PRO Music technology convention at Birmingham’s NEC Genting Arena...

"Game-changing" new app generates music from text prompts

AI tool Udio has launched with the backing of musicians will.i.am and Common

A new AI tool which can generate music from text prompts has launched online. Udio, which is currently in its beta testing phase, was developed...

Birmingham City Council budget cuts arts and culture

The authority must plug a £300 million deficit and sell £1.25 billion in assets 

Cultural institutions in Birmingham are facing major cuts to funding following a draft budget document published earlier this week by the City Council, which effectively...

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The SBTV founder will become its youngest-ever and only posthumously-awarded recipient

SBTV founder Jamal Edwards is set to be honoured with a posthumous award. The Luton-born and Acton-raised entrepreneur, director, DJ, author and designer, who died...

Drum & bass artist Paul Gellen, aka DJ Sly, convicted of rape by Essex police

Gellen has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in December 2019 before raping her in March 2020

Content warning: This article contains information relating to rape and sexual assault. Paul Gellen, aka UK drum & bass artist DJ Sly, has been convicted...

Abandoning another project file after a few hours, thinking everything sounds s**t, feeling like you should be finishing more tunes. A lot of counterproductive, negative...

When life gets in the way — particularly for those of us working other jobs at the same time — trying to keep our music...

The adventurous producer moves beyond the dancefloor on his latest album for Local Action

The rapid metamorphosis of 96 Back from club-geared dance producer to risk- taking experimentalist has been thrilling to witness. Manchester-based artist Evan Majumdar-Swift grew up...