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Faith 20 & Out, Aphex Twin Curates, Livity Sound in Bristol

Summer flew by faster than Boris Johnson’s parliamentary majority, but that’s no bad thing. Britain's busiest club night season is here, and it's looking good. ...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From psychedelic techno and frosty EBM to glimmering experimental pop and club...

DJ Clea is a vital new voice to emerge from the ever-curious Swedish house scene. The Stockholm-based DJ and producer has most recently landed on...

A press photo of Andrew Weatherall in a black hat and blue denim shirt

The mini-doc shines a light on The Guv’nor’s oft-quoted phrase, 'Fail We May, Sail We Must’

A short film digging into the roots of the mantra closely associated with the late Andrew Weatherall, 'Fail We May, Sail We Must’, is available...

A composite image of the Roland and Univeral Music Group logos

The music instrument creator and major label behemoth have published a joint manifesto

Roland and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced a new partnership and published a joint manifesto titled Principles for Music Creation with AI. The collaboration...

Recognise is DJ Mag’s monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak to...

Determination and defiance burst from every beat of Lag’s output. As a producer, DJ and promoter, the Serbian upstart has become a vital fixture in...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From high-octane footwork, frenetic techno and fiery house to radiant bass here's...

Fauzia

Fauzia Habib is one of the many talents unearthed by NTS who is now going on to make a mark on her own terms...

Disclosure’s Wild Life Detroit festival bridges generations of dance music...

Disclosure’s travelling festival series Wild Life stops in Michigan’s metro Detroit area, and in just a matter of seven hours, the event manages to encompass...

Despite keeping his identity under wraps (or in this case, Post-it notes), Unglued has been turning heads with his rough 'n' ready productions. With the...

Unglued is the latest name to join drum & bass powerhouse, Hospital Records, and with a mere handful of tracks has already garnered support...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From rich, experimental techno and ambient to festival-ready house and trance, here's...

With roots in South America and France, but based in the Canadian music hub of Montréal, Ourielle Auvé, or Ouri as she’s better known, pours...

Joyce Sims, R&B singer-songwriter, dies, aged 63

The New York artist was best known for her 1987 hit single, 'Come Into My Life'

American R&B singer-songwriter Joyce Sims has died, aged 63. The artist, who hailed from Rochester in New York, was best known for her hit single...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

Ben Cardew revisits Richie Hawtin’s acidic masterpiece, 1993's ‘Sheet One’, perhaps the most definitive example of Roland’s TB-303 synthesizer ever released in the album format

The TB-303 is one of the most iconic sounds in electronic music; a kind of acidic, alien howl that immediately places the listener in the...

With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...

Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'.
Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.

The Shogun Audio don is on fire

I've just asked Thomas Green, aka Rockwell, one of d&b's hottest producers and DJs of 2013, who is No.1 on his wish list of collaborators. He's thinking about it. I ponder which jungle/d&b legend he's going to opt for. 
“Ian Mackaye,” he says. Nods affirmatively. “Definitely. I'm obsessed with Fugazi and Minor Threat. It's my first love in music — hardcore punk, I love Black Flag and Henry Rollins as well — in fact I went to see his spoken word show a few weeks ago. Ian MacKaye I think probably wouldn't be very into the kind of music I'd make so the results would be... interesting. But, yeah, I would love to work with him.”
Of course, such genre-bending surprise should be of NO surprise to anyone who's properly listened to Rockwell.

2019 was a year in which deeply personal and boldly political music ruled the long-player format. Below, you'll find the 50 albums that defined the...

Some years stand out for the bangers they produced, for the adrenaline-shot belters that shook festivals and club floors night after night, and never felt...