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Shanghai’s pioneering SVBKVLT label is creating a bold new future for electronic and club music, spearheading a movement inspired as much by Chinese tradition as avant-garde...

It’s a week-night at Corsica Studios and the loudest club in London is packed out and shrouded in fog. Metal barriers carve out a makeshift...

Paranoid London are on a mission to bring back the rawness of old house, with their skeletal acid tracks and Chicago-influenced beats. We head to...

It’s not just the scorching temperature that’s causing us to sweat, as we wander around the back streets of Hackney trying to locate Paranoid London’s...

Team DJ Mag asked DJs featured in our annual Top 100 and Alternative Top 100 polls to vote for their absolute favourite festivals. Collating all...

11. BURNING MAN
12. TIMEWARP
13. CREAMFIELDS
14. MOVEMENT
15. PAROOKAVILLE
16. WORLD CLUB DOME
17. LOVE INTERNATIONAL
18. OUTLOOK
19. FUSION
20. DOUR

Over the years, we’ve kind of made polls something of a speciality here at DJ Mag. Over 1.2 million people voted in the Top 100...

German DJ and musician Lena Willikens is proud to be an outsider, and her leftfield approach to dance music, art and noise resonates with followers...

Lena Willikens has always been an outsider. Born in the south-west German city of Stuttgart to a Hungarian architect mother and an artist father, formative...

DJ Mag Ibiza meets the DJ/producer to talk studio secrets, old skool Ibiza, and how to avoid homogeneous DJ sets...

He’s the latest superstar DJ to nab himself a season-long residency at one of Ibiza’s top superclubs, but Maceo Plex isn’t playing by anyone’s rules...

Dedicated to his parents and featuring many d&b friends, it's a family affair...

“In Brazil, we have a lot of passion,” urges DJ Marky, via a Skype call from his South American homeland. The veteran DJ is...

Christian and Steve Martinez are proof that the family that plays together, stays together.

words: LILY MOAYERI pics: ANDREW COTTERILL

An impenetrable gate sits atop the steep inclined driveway of a Beverly Hills mansion, one in that city’s famed...

DJ Mag talks to Dave about the track series that propelled him to stardom...

We’re outside the Dylan Hotel in Amsterdam, the night after Dave Clarke’s sell-out ADE party. Your DJ Mag hack is somewhat the worse for wear...

As DJs, producers and labels all get their biggest musical bombs ready for Miami’s annual musical showcase, DJMag looks back at the history of Big...

Is it the dance music equivalent of the Holy Grail or a merely an empty, outdated myth? That’s the question hanging over the concept of...

The latest, biggest and most epic addition to Brazilian's vibrant clubbing scene, Green Valley might just be the best outdoor club we're ever likely to...

Whoever said that travel broadens the mind probably wasn't thinking of times like this, but it's certainly stretching any previous conceptions of what outdoor clubbing...

With three decades as one of house’s biggest names under his belt, Roger Sanchez has seemingly lost none of his enthusiasm for the music that...

On a recent humid evening in Brooklyn, on the rooftop of the Bushwick club Elsewhere, a few hundred revelers let out a collective ‘whoop’ as...

During the early part of the pandemic, DJ and producer ZHU went on a road trip with his bandmates, recording his new album in remote...

Steven Zhu can’t sit still for long. It’s a characteristic that has always served the artist, better known simply as ZHU, quite well. Since he...

One of the first legal UK mega-raves to bring dance music culture to the masses was Fantazia. With its emphasis on spending big production budgets...

By the early ’90s, dance music in the UK was already a complex beast. US house and techno cross-pollinated with synth-pop, rare groove and soundsystem...

The raucous rhythms of Jersey club have been everywhere lately, and UNIIQU3, aka the Jersey Club Queen, is one of the main reasons why. Bruce...

The voice on the other end of the phone is murmuring gentle orders: “Black, please. Middle strip rainbow. Yeah, like that.” A few seconds pass...

Photo of NikNak beneath a blue, pink and purple spotlight

Turntablist NikNak has a unique style, cutting and scratching field recordings and samples into ambient tracks — but her latest album finds her leaning into the dance music you might hear in one of her club sets. Ben Murphy speaks to her about Afrofuturist sci-fi, trip-hop, pop, and why she loves found sounds

DJ, turntablist and producer NikNak approaches the decks differently. The Leeds-based artist’s debut album, ‘Bashi’, released in 2020, found her using turntables to manipulate field...