“I read this quote the other day that really resonated,” Arushi Jain recounts over a video call. “It was this idea that, without a practice...
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New York techno legend Adam X talks about EDM and sticking to his guns
New York City's Adam X is one of the original US electronic dance architects, with a fine line in brutal, astringent blasts of industrial techno...
Shadow Child’s bass-heavy house music is all over the airwaves, dancefloors and beyond.
It’s a cold, wet Wednesday night in London but pumping across airwaves at 108.6FM are the ripping basslines, house beats, jazzy keys and liquid vocals...
Bring the revolution! Stanton’s SCS 4DJ is an all-in-one funbox for the digital DJ
The Stanton SCS 4DJ got me excited when I was shown a pre-production model at Frankfurt earlier in the year. In fact, I was pretty...
An interview with Krafty Kuts
Krafty Kuts, aka Martin Reeves, is hands-down one of the most enthusiastic and hard-working men in music. In an exclusive interview with DJmag.com’s Jessica Seckington...
Tom Trago - one of Amsterdam's freshest underground house and techno producers - recommends the coolest new artists breaking through and putting the Dam firmly...
It's no secret that Amsterdam is a great music city, particularly where dance music is concerned. Host to a rich mix of hip and legendary...
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Delhi-born, Brooklyn-based synthesist, composer and singer Arushi Jain’s modular explorations are guided by boundless curiosity, and a researcher’s sense of wonder. On her new album for Leaving Records, ‘Delight’, she weaves enchanting vocals, organic instrumentation and elements of Indian classical music into her unique electronic framework, reflecting on love, longing and the nature of beauty. Tara Joshi learns more
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Akala's Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire is a fiercely honest appraisal of growing up poor and mixed race in broken Britain...
MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of...
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After years of devotion to New York's club scene, Detroit-born Lauren Flax is more passionate than ever, with acid techno tracks to be perfected, causes to be fought, and lives to be saved through her harm reduction initiative. This month, she shares her journey with Bruce Tantum
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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 collections. This week, Ciel picks boundary-pushing techno, electro and trance, spaced-out jungle and sun-baked garage
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Pioneer DJ’s new CloudDirectPlay ushers in a new era for DJing
Amsterdam’s record shops are renowned in the European dance scene, crammed with cuts that have made local DJs into stars and ensured that Dekmantel festival is...
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The Minimal Wave boss digs deep to pick 10 industrial, post-punk and new wave cuts that mean the most to her...
Though best known for her label Minimal Wave, founded in 2005, and specialising in rare synth wave from the ‘80s, it's surprising that New Yorker...
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Geoff Kirkwood, aka Man Power, the Me Me Me label owner, DJ and producer from Newcastle, currently resides in Mexico with his wife and step-daughter...
His current release ‘Barranquilla Trifle’ on Future Boogie Recordings is the kind of disco-kissed techy wonderfulness that we love him for, and the finishing touches...
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Look, you don’t need us to tell you that a warm-up set is a special sort of skill that requires patience, an experienced ear and...