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Cited as an influence by techno founding father Juan Atkins, Richie Hawtin and Boys Noize amongst many others, Numan’s strangely isolationist experimental synth-pop gatecrashed the charts in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s as tunes like ‘Are Friends Electric?’ and ‘Cars’ permeated into mainstream consciousness.



Glasgow club SWG3 starts using dancers' body heat to power venue

It's hoped that the new energy system will help the venue to reduce its carbon emissions by about 70 tonnes of CO2 a year

Glasgow warehouse venue SWG3 has installed a new energy system that recycles dancers' body heat to power the space. With the new system, BODYHEAT, set...

NikNak Sankofa

The Leeds-based DJ and producer is also embarking on a UK tour

NikNak has announced a new album, 'Sankofa', which will be released on 1st July. Billed as an "immersive turntablism-produced" record, the Leeds-based artist's latest outing...

To celebrate 25 years of the DiY collective, here are some memories from the early 90s

The late 1980s, early '90s were a halcyon time for music. Free parties, electronic music, protest and what later became known as the “second summer...

orba2

This palm-sized looper, synth, and MIDI controller is the latest iteration of the award-winning Orba device

A new handheld device called the Orba 2 lets you turn found sounds into playable instruments. The portable, easy-to-use gadget is intuitively designed with a...

Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555 remastered for debut North American screening

The 4K remastered version will hit the screens in North America for the first time this June

Draft Punk’s Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem will be screened publicly for the first time in North America this summer. The...

The past 12 months have seen Miguel Campbell’s stock shoot through the roof.

A well-received Radio 1 Essential Mix, 2011’s best-selling track on Beatport and a globe-spanning schedule of non-stop bookings, not to mention a coveted DJ Mag Best Of British award — it’s easy to see why Miguel Campbell is beaming.

New documentary on Don Letts, legendary punk and reggae filmmaker and DJ, to be released next month

Rebel Dread sets the pioneering artist's story against a backdrop of systemic racism in UK politics

A new documentary about British punk and reggae filmmaker, DJ and musician Don Letts is set to be released next month. Watch the trailer for...

As a DJ/producer of dark, harrowing sound, the head honcho of the multidisciplinary 6dimensions label, and founder of one the UK's most influential parties, LOST...

Steve Bicknell has been immersed in techno for close to three decades now. Having launched the legendary  LOST parties in 1991 with Sheree Rashit –...

Acid house hero and dancehall spitter is back and firin'!

One of the most distinctive voices in UK electronic music, Feral Is Kinky is the latest persona for MC Kinky, aka Cantankerous, aka Feral, aka The Infidel — or Caron Geary to her sister.

The most epic ADE yet

Steadily, with minimal fuss and no brash talk, the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has built itself up into the premier global conference destination for dance...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

Coby Sey’s music sounds particularly special in winter. The Lewisham musician, producer, vocalist and DJ’s frosty, nocturnal sound envelopes its listeners like a thick fog...

A Tribe Called Red’s ‘pow-wow-step’ thrills and excites

Did Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus ‘discover’ America 500-odd years ago? No! He may have been one of the first white men to open up the...

DJ Mag chats to DJ Pierre about the first proper acid house track...

Nathaniel Pierre Jones was forever tinkering around with electronic devices and mending watches when he was a kid growing up in Chicago. 

“I just naturally...

Congo Natty

On his upcoming 25-track opus ‘Ancestorz’ — which he describes as his life's work — long-serving jungle soldier Congo Natty unites many voices from across the diaspora, joining dots through the history of Black music and celebrating the new jungle generation. In a series of in-depth interviews for DJ Mag, he talks to Dave Jenkins about love, revolution, unity, and reclaiming his place in the history books

“This isn’t an interview, brother, this is an outerview!” Congo Natty declares. He draws on his spliff, holding DJ Mag’s gaze with intensity. Even through...