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Drumcode cancels Malta festival due to “unresolved problems” with Pollen events organisation

"We no longer have confidence in [Pollen's] ability to deliver the rigorous high standards of safety and customer experience we demand of an event presented under our name" 

Drumcode has called off its Malta festival over "an accumulation of unresolved problems" with troubled events company Pollen. In a statement posted to Instagram, Drumcode...

Radio signal distant galaxy

The bursts last up to three seconds and occur every 0.2 seconds — the longest ever recorded, in the clearest periodic pattern ever observed. 

A radio signal emanating from a distant galaxy several billion lightyears from Earth has been detected by astronomers in Canada and at the Massachusetts Institute...

MOVES Recordings releases second compilation spotlighting Nigerian Freebeat sound': Listen

DJ Stainless & DJ Elede, DJ YK, DJ West & Fela 2, DJ OP Dot all feature

MOVES Recordings has released a second compilation spotlighting the Nigerian Freebeat sound, which marries elements of techno, gqom, amapiano and more. 'CRUISE! 2' follows on...

I.JORDAN drops new single, ‘Always Been / First Time Back’, on Ninja Tune: Listen

It’s the first in a series of two-trackers to come from the artist in the coming months

I.JORDAN has released a new double single, ‘Always Been / First Time Back’ on Ninja Tune. Listen to both tracks below. It marks the DJ...

Kate Bush lands first ever Billboard Number One album thanks to Stranger Things feature

The iconic track has also re-entered the UK Top 10

Kate Bush has landed her first ever Billboard Number One album with 1985's 'Hounds of Love', following its appearance in the fourth season of Stranger...

Premiere: Alexis ‘ethereal skies’

London DJ and producer Alexis serves up a “groovy and glitchy slow burner” for femme culture’s ‘HeForShe Vol.4’ compilation

London-based DIY collective and label femme culture will release their new charity compilation, ‘HeForShe Vol.4’, in aid of UN Women, this month. Hear London DJ...

Composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariūki

Listen to 'Equator Song' now

Kenyan composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariūki will release her debut EP, ‘peace places: kenyan memories’, next month via SA Recordings. Listen to the single...

"Will they, won’t they" has very much been the UK vibe for the past few months. Fear not, though, socio-political unrest notwithstanding, there are still...

Pure Groove’s new Soundsystem is designed to give you the horn...

Some people may not get excited by club speakers; after all they are just a stack of black boxes in the corner making a noise...

What do 2014's results tell us about the current dance music landscape?

Club-land worldwide has spoken once again. The votes for the Top 100 DJs Poll 2014 — more than 900,000 this year — have been counted...

We talk to the slo-mo house heads, The White Lamp

When slo-mo disco cut 'It's You' by The White Lamp appeared on Futureboogie in 2012, DJ Mag thought that a new talent had arrived. With...

Allen & Heath add a new dimension to the DJing market by introducing another DB series mixer to the fold

When hardware masters Allen & Heath dropped the DB4 last year it raised some eyebrows in the DJ community. Often heralded by DJs and audiophiles...

on a ragga tip xl recordings

Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story

‘Ey ey ba day ba wadladie day’ The opening lyrics to SL2’s ‘On A Ragga Tip’ immediately come up when you type its title into...

Crossing over to practically every genre, DJ and dancefloor in 2005, ‘Rej’ is an evergreen classic. Ahead of the 100th release on Innervisions,  Âme discuss...

Few tracks capture the exciting crux and flux of mid-2000s house and techno quite as succinctly as Âme’s ‘Rej’. A palpitating journeyman beacon flashing urgently...

Using data from voting in this year’s global Top 100 DJs poll with a genre filter based on insights and data from Beatport, we present...

This is the fourth year that DJ Mag has presented the Alternative Top 100 DJs list in association with Beatport. In 2021, the genres included...