Every drill scene has its transcendent track; one so potent that it blasts hyper-localised sounds out towards national and international listeners. ‘Don’t Like’, ‘Let’s Lurk’...
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DJ Mag’s Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing influence of seminal albums throughout history. Here, DJ Mag's Digital Tech Editor Declan McGlynn examines how Prince's...
As the chorus for ‘Purple Rain’ rang out of First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on a humid August evening in 1983, no one sang along...
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Electronic Music Books
Despite the ever-growing gadget list for on-screen reading devices, few things beat an old-fashioned book to have and to hold. Every year...
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Detroit drum & bass aficionado Sinistarr steps up with a killer hour of ecstatic footwork, jungle and jolting, bassy rhythms. We catch up with a...
Sinistarr has been at the helm of Detroit’s d&b scene for a decade now. In that time, the prolific DJ/producer – real name Jeremy Howard...
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What is there to say about Carl Cox? The man who came to define the sound of Ibiza, effortlessly appealing to dance music fans across...
What are your Ibiza plans for the rest of 2018, Carl?
“The summer for me has changed a lot since Space closed, so this time...
New Order's Gillian Gilbert on being away, bringing the disco back, the whole ‘Hooky thing’ and Christmas at the Gilbert-Morris home.
One night in Manchester, England in 1980, 19-year-old keyboardist/guitarist Gillian Gilbert hitched a ride with boys in a fellow band: drummer Stephen Morris and the...
Tech wizard gears up for a huge Miami!
James Zabiela is a visionary and icon to many.
Is Pioneer's new baby, the DJM-900 Nexus mixer deftined for clubland glory?
It’s the mixer that DJs and clubland have been waiting for, for over five years now — the replacement to the industry standard DJM-800. DJmag...
Ex-Deep Dish man talks about new single and album
Recruiting the vocal talents of Anousheh, ex-Deep Dish man Sharam makes his bid for a summer anthem with ‘Fun’. A bittersweet lament for fondly remembered...
A catch up with DJ EASE...
Master beatsmith George Evelyn, aka DJ EASE, is a modern day production whiz. Like a latter day Quincy Jones, he's seen more musical...
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Ireland’s drill scene has been blowing up since 2018, with homegrown rappers and producers putting their own spin on the world-conquering sound. Robert Kazandjian speaks...
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
London-via-Birmingham's Barely Legal is a mainstay of the UK scene. An artist who has been at the forefront of the underground bass world for almost...
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DJ Mag's Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this edition, Ben Cardew discusses how Leftfield's...
Bastardisation has long been at the heart of the British musical soul. The Beatles had it, tying up US R&B into wonderful new forms in...
Free grime/deep house EP from Matta
Matta are a London based bass music duo, boasting solid releases and some more than prolific support in the form of names such as Bjork...
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We’ve got dance music royalty giving us their Take 10 this month...
Andy Cato (the taller, fair-haired one) and Tom Findlay, who together comprise Groove Armada, have been one of the most successful dance music duos of...
Vinyl may be back, but is the picture really so rosy for records?
I’m sure you’ve heard the great news — vinyl is back, baby: back on the shelves, back in our collective conscious, back in the clubs. Everyone and their mother’s brother is now walking around like the cat who's got the cream, because they are true collectors, true music heads, true audiophiles and their addiction to black crack has finally been vindicated.