When compared to other UK dance music genres, the documentary coverage of jungle drum & bass is remarkably thin on the ground, largely limited to...
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The Prodigy’s fans — nicknamed the Ant Army — are some of the most dedicated for any band. Ahead of their new album, Prodigy expert...
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Julia Toppin selects 10 essential documentaries that paint a portrait of 30 years of jungle drum & bass, charting the stories of its origins to...
His undying love for garage kept it alive during leaner times, and as his recent 24-hour set for Cancer Research on Boiler Room showed, his...
Dressed in black t-shirt and cap, garage don DJ EZ stands in stark contrast to the bright white walls of the south-east London studio that...
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Blending hip-hop, house and influences from New York’s ballroom scene, Cakes Da Killa has been opening up the conversation around LGBTQ+ artists in rap. He speaks to Nathan Evans about developing his style, the appropriation of queer and ballroom culture, and finding inspiration in the Harlem Renaissance for his new album ‘Svengali’
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Independent record labels are thriving by adapting to new models and branching out into management, distribution, publishing and clothing. DJ Mag finds out more...
If there’s any sector in dance music that has had to be genuinely run ‘for the love’ and ferociously adapt to survive the music industry’s...
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The charge for women in EDM went from token news story to a full-blown movement in 2015. While the likes of Nicole Moudaber...
His anthemic tracks for Innervisions, Life and Death and his own BOSO label dominated club sets in 2014, and even made the UK Top 10...
“I'm a straight guy,” says Ten Walls, aka Lithuanian producer Marijus Adomaitis, also known as Mario Basanov, as he fixes his gaze directly across the...
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Italo disco is everywhere again. But what does Italo even mean today, and is it at risk of being diluted into a catch-all term for anything with an '80s disco sparkle? Joe Roberts dives into the genre's history, and chats to some of its new devotees and longstanding champions about its ever-evolving sound
We speak to Berlin’s sampling bootleg king ahead of SW4...
At what point does sampling become plagiarism? It's a common question in dance music, but with few occasions has the debate become as contentious as...
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The raucous rhythms of Jersey club have been everywhere lately, and UNIIQU3, aka the Jersey Club Queen, is one of the main reasons why. Bruce...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From found sound turntablism, techno and two-step to experimental soul and glossy...
Apollonia are the gods of groovy, stripped-back underground house music. The French trio — consisting of Dan Ghenacia, Shonky and Dyed Soundorom — have been...
It’s late May 2017 in Ibiza, and the end of a long week of opening parties on the island. Shortly after Apollonia close the terrace...
We meet the Italian techno don face-to-face in Barcelona...
Joseph Capriati is the rapidly-rising Italian techno star who's broadened his sound out for Ibiza to inject more groove into it. Leaving behind the Music...
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Black Science Orchestra’s Trammps-sampling, Frankie Knuckles approved 1992 cut ‘Where Were You?’ marked a key moment in UK house music, and embodied a sound that...
Krewella explain once and for all why they will always be a sister act.
“I see us as two dirty trolls.” Jahan Yousaf is kicking it with her sister, Yasmine at home in LA. Hailing from Chicago, the Yousaf...