When compared to other UK dance music genres, the documentary coverage of jungle drum & bass is remarkably thin on the ground, largely limited to...
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Weak MCs are ruining DJ sets. Respect the music, says our resident ranter...
Best days of our lives. Truly the internet age has made more music accessible to more of us than ever before. With infa-red agility we...
South Uprising: Making the 'wrong' side of the river right
While Londoners often congratulate themselves on living in one of the most diverse, open-minded and multicultural cities in the world - a fact born out...
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Julia Toppin selects 10 essential documentaries that paint a portrait of 30 years of jungle drum & bass, charting the stories of its origins to...
Following in the footsteps of the Korg mini KP, the new portable battery-powered toy from Korg is a Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer.
The Tech Award winning Mini-KP had practically all the great effects of its bigger brother, the Kaoss Pad 3. But along with sampling, the Mini-KP's...
Dub’s influence on dance music stretches back from the earliest shoots of acid house...
“When it comes to music, it’s a small world,” says dub maestro Mad Professor, fresh from a month-long tour of Australia.
“Just take that tune...
Queen of UK urban dance, Ms Dynamite is back with a massive live date at London'??s SW4 Festival and an arsenal of club tunes that...
Ms Dynamite is excited. She’s just finished the DJmag cover shoot and is about to film the video for her brand new single ‘Wot U...
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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...
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Josh Wink has been dominating clubs and festivals as a DJ, producer, label-runner and remixer for almost 30 years. Alongside long-term friend and fellow Philadelphian...
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In this first instalment of Spice Rack, a new bi-monthly column on underground music from South Asia and its diaspora, Dhruva Balram looks at the...
The garage/techno/jazz futurist on his new album 'Seven Lies'
We caught up with this self-taught scholar of dance music who first began DJing jazz in his room to find out what exactly is going on in that brain — and that record collection — of his...
Mashing up musical styles and sampling indigenous culture
Mashing up musical styles and sampling indigenous culture, A Tribe Called Red are one of the most exciting, important and downright dangerous DJ trios around...
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In this regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp...
A true jungle soldier
Congo Natty has a rich history of involvement in the music scene for the last 25 years. Formerly known as the Rebel MC, he had chart hits such as 'Just Keep Rockin'' and 'Street Tuff' in the late '80s with the Double Trouble production kru before hankering down into — and helping to pioneer — the early jungle scene.
We chat to infamous breakbeat duo Stanton Warriors about their seminal mix/comp, 'Stanton Sessions Vol 1'
Mark Yardley and Dominic Butler, aka the Stanton Warriors, met at the Fifty First State garage label/studio complex in London in the mid-1990s, although they...
DJ Hype — a true soldier of the dnb scene
DJ Hype has hosted his Playaz night at Fabric in London on the last Friday of the month for the last 13 years. He's held his Kiss radio show for 18 years straight and still manages to find time to DJ all over the world – spreading the 360 drum & bass gospel.