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There were over 680 reports of raves of unlicensed and music events in 2017...

Illegal raves are on the rise in the UK, according to a new report.

According to Sky News, there were 682 reports of illegal...

Psychedelics have become more popular in the UK in recent years, with some people using them recreationally to address mental illnesses. These drugs are illegal, but...

A young life is punctuated by firsts: your first kiss, your first taste of alcohol, moments when you feel recklessly alive. Producer and DJ Lauren...

Bank Holiday hoedown in Leeds

Despite weather reports not looking too bright for May’s first bank holiday, the excitement ahead of Back to Basics Saturday afternoon offering to Leeds’ three...

Promoters called Renegade hosted a free rave underneath the Brooklyn side of the Kosciuszko Bridge

A DJ who played an illegal NYC rave last weekend has said it was not “worth the risk” performing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last Saturday...

Janet Jackson announces ‘The Velvet Rope’ 25th anniversary reissue

Remixes by Masters At Work, David Morales & Frankie Knuckles, Armand Van Helden and more will feature 

Janet Jackson's 1997 album 'The Velvet Rope' is getting reissued for its 25th anniversary. Out 7th October, the updated edition of the legendary pop star's...

Time for a history lesson

Memory is a crazy thing. Psychology suggests that huge chunks of our memory are false constructs, whopping great brain porkies designed to bolster up whatever zany truths we’ve decided to believe about the world. Say, for example, that you think of yourself as a virile, dancefloor dominating master of the decks, a near mythical hybrid of Julio Bashmore, Sasha and Larry Levan.

Detroit legend to also release A Trip To The Moon score on CD...

Jeff Mills has shared a teaser for his next album, an "electronic/classical" collection titled, 'Planets'.

Few details have been released about the record, however in...

Numark have jazzed up their D2 digital media player.

The new DDS80 still plays from virtually any USB storage disk and MP3 player, but now it has a posh new colour screen and comes...

 

Orbital’s eponymous debut album, also known as The Green Album, was released via FFRR in 1991. As part of our Solid Gold series, Ben...

Most electronic music acts are fairly easy to work out. Not so Orbital, a British duo whose career has been marked by distinct phases of...

The four hour film will air in two parts next year

Pop superstar Janet Jackson has unveiled the trailer to a forthcoming documentary, 'JANET', which charts her life and career to date. 

The four hour film...

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...

Photo of Sepehr posing at a slight tilt, wearing a black leather vest

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

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...

An attempt to "work against the quick turnover rate of the track-based streaming economy"...

Planet Mu is preparing to release a new album from Speaker Music, AKA DeForrest Brown Jr., a name many will recognise from his theories, editorial...

Recreate the killer Planas sound!

Planas’ new album ‘The Long Game’ on Exceptional Blue Records is a great, atmospheric, vocal bass work-out. 'Rain On Me' is one of the stand out tracks. Here’s how he got that killer sound…

DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In our latest edition, DJ Mag regular...

The rope bridge spans a wide ravine that fades into darkness as it drops. On one side, under skies choked by smoke being belched from...