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Ready for the after party? WE ARE!

In our Apple Music playlist series, some of our favourite DJs guide us through a selection of their ultimate afterparty tunes. This week's selector is...

Where does a string of venue closures leave the capital?

The abrupt news of the closure of London's Cable at the hand of Network Rail repossession and plans for redevelopment sent shockwaves across the capital this May. Coming just two months after the dramatic closure of 93 Feet East and during the midst of an ongoing wrangle between private property developers and Ministry Of Sound, it's left London's clubs lined up a lot like sitting ducks, prompting clubbers to ask a flurry of pressing questions.

At the centre of Daft Punk’s world-beating debut album lay a tribute to the architects of dance music, titled ‘Teachers’. With the help of Neil...

25 years ago today, Daft Punk graduated into the hottest electronic act on earth. If you gave every would-be student of dance music a starter...

As events begin to reschedule dates for 2021, and with some selling out months in advance, the practise of ticket touting is once again an...

Electronic music artists, venues and promoters are failing to do enough to protect fans from online touts, who are selling tickets for more than 10...

Recognise: Ploy

Ploy demonstrates his percussive, pulse-racing and sub-bass-shaking sound for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Katie Thomas about gradually finding his groove on imprints like L.I.E.S, Hessle Audio and Timedance, and his new label and party, Deaf Test

In February 2020, Ploy shared a bill with Batu and Loraine James, celebrating five years of Batu’s label, Timedance. Playing the closing hours of the...

London label Alien Jams has been releasing music that balances propulsive dancefloor energy with extraterrestrial experimentation since 2014. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, founder...

After the recent tragic deaths of two people at Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth, the issue of drug safety testing has been thrust into the spotlight...

The whole point about harm minimisation is admitting that people are always going to take drugs, whatever anyone in authority says or does — so...

Manufacturing delays and rising costs are straining small, independent vinyl labels. Paired with environmental concerns and a reassessment of what physical releases can entail, the...

The word “shitshow” comes up a lot when you talk to independent label owners about producing vinyl. Emily Moxon, managing director at Brownswood, says that...

He.She.They is a globetrotting party devised by Steven Braines and Sophia Kearney, aiming to bring together ravers of all genders, sexualities and ethnicities. DJ Mag joined them...

Steven Braines and Sophia Kearney of The Weird & The Wonderful are perhaps one of the most admirable success stories in the music industry. As...

The undiluted opinions of Kris Wadsworth

Raised in Detroit but currently residing in "Uranus", Kris Wadsworth has been scrapping away for some time now, hitting big with releases for the likes...

Anastasia Kristensen next to the album artwork of releases she chose for her Selections

In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Anastasia Kristensen spotlights ten idiosyncratic techno gems and electronic experiments

Anastasia Kristensen debuted on Tiga’s Turbo label last month with three club-ready cuts. The swaggering, synthy ‘I’d Love To Do It’ has something of Marie...

Baltimore's Dukeyman has passed away

The news was first shared on social media over the weekend

Dukeyman, the pioneering Baltimore-born producer, club DJ and sound engineer born Ronald Hall, has died. The news was confirmed on Saturday (18th February) in a...

Selections: Mor Elian

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Mor Elian spotlights off-kilter bangers to shake up the dancefloor

As a DJ, producer and co-founder of the Fever AM label, Berlin-based Mor Elian thrives in the stranger, trippier corners of club music. For close...

Black and white photo of The World’s No. 1 DJ, Martin Garrix

Garrix marked the win by performing the first ever DJ set atop the Empire State Building

Martin Garrix has been crowned The World’s No. 1 DJ in this year's DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll. The Dutchman is still only 26...

Sha Ek, Ron Suno, and 22Gz have all been taken off the bill for the weekend-long hip-hop festival

Several artists associated with New York's drill scene have been removed from the Rolling Loud festival line-up at the request of the New York City...