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Underground devotee Moudaber speaks about the problem of Ibiza’s VIP culture in recent DJ Mag panel...

In a recent panel hosted by DJ Mag, which saw some central industry figures and players discuss Ibiza’s ever-changing culture and reputation as a party...

The dance-pop duo is heading on the road...

Chicago-based DJ/producer duo, Louis The Child, will take their North American tour into the New Year with a scheduled run of shows set from late...

Mark II of the popular needle range features new improvements...

Ortofon have release mark II of their popular Concorde range of needles. Originally released in the 1980s, Ortofon are resurrecting the range to celebrate the...

Norma Jean Bell LP cover

Detroit saxophonist, producer, and vocalist Norma Jean Bell is responsible for some of house music’s most glorious moments, and has worked alongside the likes of Moodymann, K-Hand, Ron Trent and George Clinton. Her full-length opus, 'Come Into My Room', released in 2001, proved that she really is “the baddest bitch in this room”

If you look in the ‘about’ section on Norma Jean Bell’s Facebook page, it says, simply, “I’m the baddest bitch in this room...” It's a...

As the UK looks toward the end of lockdown and the reopening of clubs and festivals, Giulia Bottaro speaks to nightlife workers from different parts...

Ollie Clarke is out delivering Amazon parcels around Bristol in spring 2020. He’s one of many new workers that Royal Mail hired during the beginning...

The rave legends will bring the mayhem to Portsmouth in August

The Prodigy have been announced to play Victorious Festival in Portsmouth this August, their only UK festival appearance of 2018. 

The legendary rave trio will...

DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisists and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this first edition, Ben Cardew...

Motorbass were the gently beating heart of French dance music in the 1990s, the duo’s octopus arms encircling everything positive that would come to pass...

How The Chemical Brothers' 'Dig Your Own Hole' predicted the post-genre pop future

The Chemical Brothers' second album, 1997's 'Dig Your Own Hole', radiated ambition and adventure, and was their first to hit No.1 in the UK charts thanks to a string of landmark singles. Here, Ben Cardew explores how 'Dig Your Own Hole' altered the Chems' creative trajectory, predicted our post-genre pop future, and catapulted them to new heights

Note: this article was originally published in 2018 The Chemical Brother's second album, 'Dig Your Own Hole', was perhaps not the best electronic album of...

808 Whisky is now crowdfunding.

808 Whisky is a new Scotch whisky that takes its name from the legendary Roland TR-808, an homage to the fact that both dance...

Hear Critical Music's latest up-and-comers in action...

Klax are the newest talents to join Kasra's Critical Music camp and the latest act to deliver a mix for our Fresh Kicks series.

Hailing...

Few countries have been as devastated by Covid-19 as India, with recent studies estimating that the death toll has likely exceeded three million, more than...

As countries across the Global North vaccinate their populations against Covid-19 and exit pandemic-related restrictions, the dance music industry is entering a moral and ethical...

Over the past 10 years, DJing has undergone seismic transformations in technology and process. New styles of DJing have emerged, and some have had huge...

In the last decade, trends came and went — thank you vaporwave, lo-fi house and hypnagogic pop — but some of the most profound and...

Recent inspections found that both clubs had made illegal structural alterations to increase capacity...

Ibiza clubs Amnesia and Privilege have had their licenses temporarily suspended by San Antonio council.  

As reported in Diario de Ibiza, inspections carried out...

Conversations around automation and DJing are tried-and-tested comment triggers — the ubiquity of the tedious ‘press play’ criticisms and ‘sync button’ debate attest to that. But...

In part two of this series, we explored the impact of AI in the studio, with assisted mixing tools from iZotope, right up to full-on...

From the underground mixtape beatmakers, to those crossing over into the rap mainstream and drill scenes at home and abroad, Colin Gannon asks — who...

Like dance music, rap has a tendency to splinter into specialised subgenres. Back in 2012, Chicago producers Young Chop, DJ L and Smylez began warping...