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We count the ways in which the Purple One influenced electronic music over the years

Prince, who died yesterday at his Paisley Park Estate in Minnesota, left a huge mark on electronic music in his own charismatic way. He was...

Funk machine Alex Metric is one of 2008's hottest prospects.

Blending electro-funk, breaks, house and a distinctive soulful croon, his production style favours the glitched-up, ultra-processed cut 'n' paste vibe of the Ed Banger gang...

Photo of the late Shigeichi Negishi, inventor of Karaoke

The world’s first karaoke machine, which Negishi named the ‘Sparko Box’, went to market in 1967

Japanese engineer Shigeichi Negishi, inventor of the karaoke machine, has died aged 100. News of his passing was shared last night by Tokyo-based reporter Matt...

It follows the return of the rapper's Made In America festival to Philadelphia last month

Jay-Z has shared two new tracks.

The Brooklyn-born rapper and Roc Nation boss, who recently welcomed A$AP Ferg to his management roster, has dropped...

Though more and more artists are bringing live elements into their tech riders, Saytek is no bandwagoner. His first shows were in 2003, when a...

Kitsuné brings together some of the best dance, rock, and pop on their latest CD 'Maison Compilation 3'. DJmag.com caught up with label boss Gildas...

Merging rock with dance is nothing new, but recent media hype has led to the coining of a new genre.


'Nu rave' is a sound...

In our new feature, we explore the gear, software, sounds and synths that producers, artists and DJs can't live without...

Lindstrøm is a true modern disco legend. Part of the Scandinavian disco family that birthed the cosmic disco sound, his Oslo studio is a treasure...

Albarn and his animated alter-ego performed recent Gorillaz single, ‘Aries’

Damon Albarn performed a “duet” with his animated alter-ego, Gorillaz frontman 2-D, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week.

Albarn, broadcasting from his attic studio, and...

Roland unveil their sampling workstation with a few tricks for DJs...

The SP-555 is Roland's new sampler workstation, due to land in September. The versatile machine has trigger pads for tapping in beats, live loop capture...

And all new Push Controller

Not one but two reasons for Ableton users to be cheerful have been announced from the company’s German headquarters in the form of Live 9 along with a rather intriguing controller called Push. Not content with just improving their hugely popular Live software, for their latest incarnation, Ableton have also found the time to get teamed up with Akai to create a new Push controller specifically to control Ableton. It looks like they might have created the perfect Ableton controller in the process.

You can now sing, hum or whistle your earworm into your phone

Google’s new feature in its search app lets you hum a melody into your phone and it’ll attempt to recognise the song. Hum to Search...

As electronic music and live performance continue to intertwine, our new series explores how some of the best artists take their studios on the road...

The legendary Italian DJ has a new live project focussed on Elektron machines and a cutom built suitcase. We caught up with him to find...

The seminal tracks that altered dance forever

‘Killer’ started life as an instrumental, and it was only ever going to be one until I met Seal,” Adamski tells DJ Mag. “He came to [big rave] Sunrise 5000 at Santa Pod, although I didn’t meet him there. He walked in when I was playing and he had an epiphany.” Seal wanted to record with Adamski immediately, and Adamski — real name Adam Tinley — liked the sound of Seal’s voice from a demo of ‘Crazy’ that he’d heard.

We chat to the go-to house vocalist of the moment

Miss Bee is the honeysweet go-to house vocalist of the moment

<p>Hercules &amp; Love Affair’s new album is a neo disco, four-to-the-floor opus&nbsp;</p>

It might be a long time since the word discotheque was shortened to ‘disco’ and nightclubbing became ‘clubbing’, then ‘raving’, but in all that time...