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Collage of artists included in DJ Mag emerging artists feature for march

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From tripped-out rap and laid-back house to rapid-fire breakbeats and more, here's April 2022's list of upcoming talent you should be keeping track of

London-based An Avrin might have failed his sixth-form music tech course, but he’s been on a successful run with music ever since, with releases on...

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Wacom’s Nextbeat 1000 all-in-one DJing device is out to totally transform how DJs work the crowd. But will it please, or is it just a...

Wacom are not your usual DJ kit manufacturer. In fact they are one of the leading lights in the computer tablet and touchpad market so...

Waveform Transmission vol. 1

Released on Tresor in 1992, Jeff Mills' debut LP ‘Waveform Transmission Vol. 1’ is a record that stands for repetition and filth, forged from wrought steel and imbued with scuffed-up funk. Here, 30 years after its release, Ben Cardew takes a deep dive into the sound, origins and legacy of an album that birthed a new breed of techno 

Listen to a lot of older techno today and it sounds rather restrained. Brilliant, yes, and futuristic too, yet largely soft and melodic compared to...

'Unbelievable' singer James Atkin releases debut solo album

James Atkin was the singer in EMF, the early '90s indie-dance UK act who had a massive worldwide hit with 'Unbelievable' in 1990. EMF formed...

DJ W!LD's top 10 most influential tracks

Brought up on disco, funk and hip-hop in Dijon in eastern France, DJ W!ld took his name from the seminal 1983 hip-hop documentary Wild Style...

Timo Maas added to confirmed line-up

With the Ibiza season now open, and having raved it up at the special-two day opening of Space (with a little DC10 afterwards for good...

DJ Weekly podcast by Local Talk's Kyodai

Taking their name from the Japanese word for brothers, Kyodai are just that, although the duo are Spanish and live in Berlin.

Signed to Sweden's...

Hot Natured: Jamie Jones is on fire

Jamie Jones will now have to get rid of the words 'rising star' that have stuck in front of his name in print like particularly...

The psych-soul electronic groove of Jagwar Ma

Jagwar Ma, the Australian psych-soul electronic duo consisting of Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield, have been recruiting a vast array of fans via a succession of radio-friendly tracks and support slots with The xx and Foals of late. Their 'Howlin'' album is brimming with joie de vivre, and their status as THE feelgood nu baggy act of the summer — informed by electronics — seems assured.


Hideout, WHP & Field Day combine

With no shortage of dance events on Croatian soil, the new boutique festival from the makers of Hideout, Field Day and the Warehouse Project is a difficult one to resist. We get to know Unknown Festival...

With a touring schedule to make most DJs baulk and a wide-ranging style that spans disco, techno and everything in-between, Jackmaster gets your vote for...

In some ways, it’s like a certain department store unveiling their Christmas advert. Except with far better music and far less likely to make you...

Jurassik brings the gully monster breaks

Jurassik, aka Ben Child, first got into dance music in the late '90s via jungle/drum & bass. “Anything with a skippy sampled break, really,” he...

We returned to Iceland for the second Secret Solstice festival — and found they’ve upped the ante, big style...

“You have to have a proper rave once in a while,” says Biggi Viera of native act Gus Gus one bright, sunny night in Iceland...

The fresh house stylings of Duke Dumont are primed to crossover


The fresh house stylings of Duke Dumont are primed to crossover