If anyone is going to be searingly candid about real life in the music business, it's Sepehr Alimagham Tabari. With his four-year-old label Shaytoon Records...
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From: Cardiff
For fans of: Octo Octa, Jamie xx, Floorplan
Three tunes: ‘Every Body Is Welcome’, ‘Avant Garde’, ‘Compromise... For What?’
ON ELKKA’s new EP, there’s a slow-burning house track based on a sample of Laurie Anderson, the New York performance artist who had a surprise...
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FROM: MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
FOR FANS OF: BORN DIRTY, CHRIS LAKE, CROATIA SQUAD
THREE TUNES: ‘FUTURMASTIC’, ‘UTOPIA’, ‘SOUL SACRIFICE’
IT was May last year when a certain Frenchman strode through the searing heat of the Las Vegas summer, towards one of his greatest career ambitions...
Our first print mag of the season has hit the White Isle...
Here at DJ Mag HQ, there’s nothing we love more than a cheeky trip to the White Isle. We love it so much we’ve been...
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Seattle fest gears up for the big 10!
As the 'EDM' tidal wave continues to crash over The States, the club scenes of America's major cities are rightfully reaping the benefits. Seattle is no exception. Increasingly, cool after-parties playing house and techno are capturing the imagination of the city's young adults and large-scale dance events are cropping up left, right and centre. One festival, however, has been bringing eclectic dance sounds to the largest city in the Pacific Northwest since 2004.
Shadow Child Emerges from behind Dave Spoon
Pseudonyms have always been prevalent in dance music, but sometimes the new name adopted by an artist for a one-off track resonates so well that...
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The Tech Awards is a very serious business - our judging panel consisted of DJs, VJs and producers. They spent hour after hour testing out...
A handpicked crew of DJs, VJs and producers made up our panel of judges for this year's Tech Awards, and they were really enthusiastic.
They...
For long-serving Berlin techno queen Ellen Allien, a return to the physical — in both the way she plays and makes music — has re-energised...
She's been playing gigs in record shops, buying and playing lots of vinyl, and made her new album, 'Nost', using mainly analogue equipment. Her seventh...
It’s upon us at last. The long-awaited sequel to Trainspotting — the definitive cult film of the 1990s — is released this month, and we’ve...
Unless you've been locked in Berghain for the last six months, you'll know Trainspotting 2 — dubbed T2: Trainspotting — is set to pull into...
Baldy DJ Lee Burridge sends us his diary every month. This time he reports from Down Under, where he narrowly avoided getting eaten by a...
I had my heart set on Melbourne as one of the seven locations for 365 in the first year.
I chose it for many different...
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With his Shaytoon Records label, Sepehr has built a platform for underground techno and electronic music from the Iranian diaspora. But the versatile New York-based producer and DJ fights oversimplified categorisations and pigeonholing at every turn, extracting influence from obscure ‘90s rave records as much as Persian mythology. Alongside a 90-minute On Cue mix demonstrating this sound, he tells Marke Bieschke about his Flower Storm project with Kasra V, the influence of Silent Servant, and his grunge-influenced new band
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Tali was the first female drum & bass MC to feature on DJ Mag’s cover in 2004, coinciding with the release of her debut album ‘Lyric On My Lip’ on Full Cycle. Nearly 18 years on from that trailblazing release, Jake Hirst connects with the artist to discuss her self-produced eighth studio album, ‘Future Dwellers’, and the journey of self-worth that lead to it
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Whether he’s making garage, bassline, tech-house or grime, DJ and producer Preditah’s sound is unmistakable. With his new tunes ‘Glucose’ and ‘Don’t Cry’ making waves...
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Hackney-based Nervous Horizon has established itself as one of the most exciting and forward-thinking club labels in London. For this month’s The Sound Of, two...