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Numark's Lightwave speakers offer a novel way to incorporate light into sound...

Up until recent times, making DJ speakers was considered a very specialist game. Only a handful of trusted speaker companies made speakers that enjoyed a...

We travel to Ecuador for a DJ Mag party at Lost Beach in Montañita, and find that — like with the Lost TV series after which...

After a long KLM flight from Amsterdam, we arrive at Guayaquil Airport and immediately catch up with Mr C and his partner Xo Chic. It...

Native Instruments' new DJing software for the iPad is just begging to be touched.

The release of Traktor DJ has changed all of this by bringing a truly professional mixing system to the iPad that can be used on-the-go for set preparation as well as for out-and-out DJ performances. Now DJs have the option of ditching their laptops in favour of an iPad for their gigs, meaning that when it comes to serious music production and DJing, the iPad’s time has finally come.

During the pandemic, music tech thrived as the wider music industry fell to its knees. Declan McGlynn explores the possibilities and implications that stemmed the...

2020’s unprecedented upheaval brought with it fundamental changes to the creative industries. Theatres, clubs, studios, venues and festivals all closed their doors and with it...

AIAIAI drop a novel way for DJs and producers to get the modular sound and look with their new TMA-2 Modular headphones...

 

Modular seems to be the buzzword of the moment within the dance music fraternity — everywhere we look we are encircled by the new modular...

Legendary Leeds club night hits the toon

The UK’s longest running club night, Back to Basics, are setting sail slightly further afield currently with their uniquely energetic and unfailingly crowd pleasing...

Critical Sounds

This month DJ Mag rolled down to the South Coast to see one of the leading labels in drum and bass, Critical Records, at Brighton's Life Club.

Welcome to Collegium Spring Break Island

For Europeans like this writer, Spring Break USA has a near mythical status. There are images of an endless sea of six packs, boobs, shimmering-sea...

The annual Miller SoundClash final exceeds all expectations

Walking into Marquee Day Club at midday we are hit by an intense wall of heat. And it’s not just the desert climate that’s raising...

With guest reviewer ThermalBear

Will the new V2 upgrades to Allen & Heath's DB4 and DB2 mixers warm up the fingers of our guest reviewer, or will they leave him with a severe case of frostbite?

One of the most anticipated events of the Ibiza season

Space Ibiza offers a spectacle few can rival no matter the occasion, but it's its closing party that's most explosive. The opener might be the culmination of eight months out the game, but the last day at the office is the product of six months of accumulated party joy; the last big blow-out before the autumn months settle in and the Ibiza season winds down for yet another year.

Rane's new rotary mixer the MP2015 is a rotary work of art...

If there is any downside to writing the Tech Section of DJ Mag it certainly isn't getting to see all of the latest equipment from...

Road tested by CLR's DJ Rebekah

When the likes of Richie Hawtin and Chris Liebing start singing your praises you know that you’re doing something right. Techno star Rebekah is part of Berlin’s CLR gang and has been wooing crowds with her amazing DJ sets and uber cool productions.

A soundcard that any producer would be happy to take into battle...

Universal Audio are a company that have a legendary reputation within the studio industry thanks to equipment like their Pultec EQs and LA-2A levelling amplifier...

We check in with the boys ahead of their appearance for us at The Raleigh Hotel in Miami later this month...

Loud shirts, branded snap-caps and enough big-room rollers to bring down a fighter jet, Solardo are the most unstoppable force in UK tech-house at the...