‘Ey ey ba day ba wadladie day’ The opening lyrics to SL2’s ‘On A Ragga Tip’ immediately come up when you type its title into...
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Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story
Best party of the year?
We admit, we're big fans of Corsica Studios (who won best small club at last year's Best of British awards) and Trouble Vision, their...
RUN DMT rewires the sound of US bass
RUN DMT, aka bass music DJ/producer John Robbins, speaks to DJ Mag USA the week he's due to perform at Electric Daisy Carnival, Chicago. Preparing himself for a very busy year, his genre blurring productions, which take in trap, dubstep, and drumstep, have been released by tastemakers such as Play Me Records, Heavy Artillery, Dim Mak and Mad Decent.
Tiesto and Deadmau5 headline Miami's hottest festival ticket
The days of the WMC being an industry only event are long gone. Thanks in no small part to Ultra Music Festival. Now in its...
Flying Lotus at The Roundhouse London live review 22/10/2011
Who knew that Flying Lotus was thispopular?Staring down from the circle seating at the unfolding psychotropic spectacle on the stage below, and the sea of teeming bodies rippling in time to it, completely packing out Camden’s cavernous Roundhouse venue, DJmag is a little taken aback.
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It’s an all-star cast for the famous mix series’ last hurrah...
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We run down the next 50 DJs who just missed out on a Top 100 placing this year
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The “custom-built club show” at Printworks will be the finale of Red Bull Music Festival...
Aphex Twin will play the final show at this year's Red Bull Music Festival.
Red Bull Music Festival, which will be held in London for...
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DJ Mag North America trips out to Vietnam, to discover why South East Asia is fast becoming an unmissable hub for dance music culture, premium...
The rain is lashing down, it’s 8am, and Ricardo Villalobos is in full flow, wearing his usual green tank top and taking a few hundred hardened...
With Miller Genuine Draft
This year’s Top 100 DJs is the biggest yet! Our worldwide poll cracked over a million votes for the first time ever, with dance music...
We chat to techno duo Pig&Dan about their superb new downtempo record
Since getting together in 1999, Pig&Dan have pretty much always released dancefloor techno — until now, that is. 'Destination Unknown' is an artist album that...
Drum & bass sound designer readies debut album
Rather than pretending that he used to sneak into Metalheadz nights at the Blue Note in London aged 11, drum & bass sound designer Rockwell...
Read the Brazilian house don's tour diary
The life and soul behind Sao Paulo's internationally revered underground bastion D-Edge, he is not only the defining force of one of the city's finest...
The United Kingdom of rave returns
House is still topping the UK charts; the EDM beast is mutating and consuming every thing in its path. Never before has there been so...
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Ben Cardew revisits the rich sampling and undiluted fun of the Beasties’ cult classic second album
'Paul's Boutique', Beastie Boys’ second album, is the sound of unrestrained musical joy; an adventure playground bouncy castle fart-joke of a record where boundary-pushing, world-building...