Dave Smith, founder of Sequential Instruments, which created the Prophet-5 among other influential synths, and the co-inventor of the MIDI protocol still in use today...
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Dance festival titans unveil monster line up and DJmag media partnership.
There may be many heavyweights in the battle royale for the dance festival crown, but as far as scorching summer line-ups go, few can compete...
Tech
He designed the first-ever programmable poly synth the Prophet-5 and co-invented MIDI
DJ Mag heads to the Italian birthplace of Marco Carola and Joseph Capriati to pick up the local thread, with Luigi Madonna and his crew
"For us it was... where everything started from. It was in the middle of mountains, so you have that view from the stage. The first time they did a...
Features
Can you imagine Cocoon without Sven Väth? How about Paradise without Jamie Jones? Or Music On without Italian techno don, Marco Carola? Ibiza’s biggest club...
What does it take to build an empire? For a DJ, it’s buckets of experience, unrivaled musical taste and hard-earned industry nous — but rulers rarely...
A Basement, a Red Light District and a Feeling
DJ Mag hit the Amsterdam Dance Event where the Dutch spirit of libertarianism has helped turn it's DJs, producers and clubs into a world beating force...
News
"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"
Music
The immersive Lincolnshire festival continues to come of age
Lost Village has quietly grown to become one of the UK's most cherished boutique festivals. Its setting in the Lincolnshire woodlands are some of the...
Features
For many, travelling outside of the UK or Europe for a festival seems like a pipedream, but getting away to a shindig can be a...
MAMBY ON THE BEACH
THE only beach festival on offer in the Windy City makes the most of its unique status with sets from rapper...
The Dutchman retained the No. 1 title at the Amsterdam ArenA...
Martin Garrix has been revealed as the winner of the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll 2017, with the 21-year-old Dutch superstar retaining his title after becoming...
The awards ceremony took place at Amsterdam ArenA on Saturday (21st October)...
Claptone has been revealed as the winner of the Highest House category in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. The DJ/producer came in...
Set to do battle in Las Vegas
We are now just one month away from the Miller SoundClash finals in Las Vegas. The 10 DJs here, each representing a different country will...
London's longest-serving Techno night, Lost.
As one half of Basic Channel, Mark Ernestus has one of the most influential back catalogues in electronic music. And just as Basic Channel releases were as eagerly anticipated as Santa dropping down the chimney with a sack of white labels for the techno cognoscenti during the 1990s, so Ernestus’ rare DJ appearances are almost as mythical an event. Or to put it another way, if you were to book him, you probably wouldn’t stick him in a back bar at the end of the night.
It's that time again
Voting has now begun for the DJmag Top 100 DJs 2008 – the world's best guide to the hottest DJs on the face of the...
Bowie, Prince, Space, Trump: We look back at an eventful year – to put it mildly – through the prism of the electronic dance music...
For better or worse, 2016 has been a whirlwind year.
The world seems to have crammed about a decade’s worth of news into a mere...
We review Manchester's Parklife Festival
Manchester’s Parklife festival exists in an alternative dimension where EDM doesn’t exist. You won’t find any cake throwing DJs or the latest celebrity selectors throwing...