If anyone is going to be searingly candid about real life in the music business, it's Sepehr Alimagham Tabari. With his four-year-old label Shaytoon Records...
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Submit your Latin mixes to win a Fiesta Nights DJ residency
La Tasca’s Fiesta Nights DJ competition is in full swing! You have been submitting your latin-inspired mixes for a chance to be featured on this...
Features
With his Shaytoon Records label, Sepehr has built a platform for underground techno and electronic music from the Iranian diaspora. But the versatile New York-based producer and DJ fights oversimplified categorisations and pigeonholing at every turn, extracting influence from obscure ‘90s rave records as much as Persian mythology. Alongside a 90-minute On Cue mix demonstrating this sound, he tells Marke Bieschke about his Flower Storm project with Kasra V, the influence of Silent Servant, and his grunge-influenced new band
“Glow sticks are sold at gas stations”...
A leaked document entitled The Rave and Club Culture/Designer Drugs that was issued by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 2001 has leaked online, offering a...
The problem? Too many DJs...
Slowly and surreptitiously over the course of the last decades, a plague has infested and infected club land. It’s a disease that has eaten away at the core art of the DJ and at the very dynamics of almost any club night you care to attend.
Roni Size Reprazent re-issued
The classic album by Roni Size's Reprazent collective, 'New Forms', celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2008, and is set to be reissued with a host...
Check out footage of a young Arthur Baker, Carl Cox & Derrick May!
Feeling fragile following Bank Holiday Monday? Switch off with old school rave documentary, Modulations, that sees Arthur Baker and Danny Tenaglia weigh in on '90s...
DJ Mag checks out Critical at Tectonic Plates Vol.3 Launch, Fabric London
What a line-up! Not for those of closed minds, faint hearts, disregarding ears! Tonight is most certainly a line-up for the heads. Each and every...
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The collective’s first issue documents queer and POC stories in dance music history
Rave Scout Cookies is set to release its first handbook.
A nostalgic package of stories to tell "fellow ravers around a campfire, at your favorite...
CHEAP PLATES
Xylio, who make B-DJ (the programme included with Behringer's BCD2000 and BCD3000 DJ controllers), have created some new DJ software.
FutureDecks (£79) is available now...
DJ Mag reflects on the legendary singer's impact on dance music...
George Michael, who passed away at the tail end of last year, started off in the clubs before making it big with Wham! As a...
Why is shuffling being mocked and banned?
I’m going to tell you a little story about dancing — this is a dance music mag, after all. It’s 1991. I’m deep in some ramshackle Northern warehouse rave. I’m at one with the universe, have just had my sixth life-changing conversation of the evening and am now busy chatting with my fourth new best friend in the last hour.
The Kreuzberg techno institution has won a a lengthy trial...
Berghain has been recognised as a space of “culture”, alongside Berlin’s theatres, museums and concerts, after winning a landmark legal case.
The Kreuzberg techno institution...
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Visitors will get an insight into the city’s cultural development following the fall of the Berlin wall...
A new exhibition, called Nineties Berlin, is to offer visitors the chance to revisit the city’s 1990s techno scene.
Created by the team behind Berlin’s...
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The dance music history of East Anglia is rich, multi-layered and messy — and little documented. Matt Anniss chats to some of the scene’s longstanding figureheads about the region’s airfield parties, seaside throwdowns and forgotten clubs, discovering a vital but rarely discussed stage in the UK’s rave evolution
Opinion
Vinyl is more popular than it’s been in years, and wax-only labels are seen as some of the best in dance music. But is our...
We're still deep in the midst of a resurgence in vinyl culture. Vinyl sales continue to rise year on year, up 12% in 2018, and vinyl-only...