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Watch new music video for ‘Frozen’ here.

Following the success of Flux Pavilion’s remix of their ‘Cracks’, the Freestylers were pleasantly surprised when Flux hopped on another track, this time as a...

From her label to her radio show to her MoodRAW and MoodZONE events, Nicole Moudaber has emerged as techno’s most tireless ambassador. DJ Mag North...

Nicole Moudaber loves to keep moving. Everything about the DJ, producer and label boss evokes constant motion, from her propulsive, percussive music to her trademark...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

Coby Sey’s music sounds particularly special in winter. The Lewisham musician, producer, vocalist and DJ’s frosty, nocturnal sound envelopes its listeners like a thick fog...

Strap in for an epic journey through drum & bass...

Philth — aka Phil Robinson — has delivered an absolute whopper of mix for our latest DJ Mag Weekly Podcast!

Despite what his name may...

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...

Recognise is DJ Mag's monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music circuit. This month, we catch up...

“I miss doing house stuff,” says Inês Borges Coutinho, laughing, a little frustrated. She’s not talking about music – thankfully, there’s lots of that. She...

Forget its divided history, Northern Ireland’s capital is very much unified in its approach to clubbing...

“I’ve never seen an atmosphere like it, never seen such madness in a crowd. Any time I dropped a new record it felt like a...

Cormac posing in profile against a grey blue background. He's wearing an orange coat with a white hood and a blue baseball cap

With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal  experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside an On Cue mix packed with HI-NRG anthems and Italo house, Marke Bieschke learns more

What is “queer music”? For some, the term recalls debauched downtown discos of yore, with unbridled backrooms, fabulous androgynes, and Liza Minnelli descending to the...

Hervė is put in the hot seat as we ask some quick fire questions...

“We basically set the blueprint for the whole bassy, speed garagey, mash-up thing — bass house, fidget, wonk, wobble. All that stuff we did in...

Law is a junglist to his very core, and as such, his vinyl collection goes deep, making him the perfect candidate for our Wax On...

Funk-dripped drum & bass head plays us his most inspiring tracks

Always that most steadfastly independent genre, today drum & bass is splintered into a panoply of micro camps. In one corner, the giant, fizzy-pop electro chords and high fructose rushes of labels like Hospital; in another, the clipped, dark minimalism and sub bass caverns of its most underground soldiers, the Critical crew.

New York’s Baltra left behind a career in the stock market to pursue his real love of music. With his debut album ‘Ted’ showing his...

Years ago, Michael Baltra was presented with a choice of instruments to study, and he decided on the violin. Given the fact that he was...

The biggest tunes on the underground this month

Since winning Best Label at the DJ Mag Best of British Awards in 2011, Defected have continued to go from strength to strength. Adroit at raising their finger to detect the prevailing wind of change, they've earned their rep by transforming the stirrings of the underground into mainstream success, pushing the likes of Tensnake to even greater heights and introducing house legends such as MK, Murk and Kevin Saunderson to a new generation of clubbers.

A sound that's all his own

The post-punk guitars, stripped-bare machine grooves and proper songs of album 'Dancers'. DJ Mag linked with Tim to talk stepping back from the dancefloor, originality...

Launching our Meet the MC video series — which you can watch below — is UK rap royalty, D Double E. Having also made the...

Ultimately, D Double E — real name Darren Dixon — is a child of soundsystem culture; rap, reggae, jungle, grime, bashment... the entire lineage of...