Listen to a lot of older techno today and it sounds rather restrained. Brilliant, yes, and futuristic too, yet largely soft and melodic compared to...
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Counting down the best of DJ 'WTF' moments in 2014
2014: the year of click bait articles and cheesy EDM news everyone loved to hate. From Art Department dissing Laidback Luke to Michelle Obama turning...
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Released on Tresor in 1992, Jeff Mills' debut LP ‘Waveform Transmission Vol. 1’ is a record that stands for repetition and filth, forged from wrought steel and imbued with scuffed-up funk. Here, 30 years after its release, Ben Cardew takes a deep dive into the sound, origins and legacy of an album that birthed a new breed of techno
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As electronic music and live performance continue to intertwine, our new series explores how some of the best artists take their studios on the road...
Henrik Schwarz's inimitable sound combines acoustic and electronic elements like no one else. His DJ sets and live performances combine emotive soundscapes and slamming beats...
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As a producer, label co-founder and DJ, Seb Wildblood has been entrenched in London’s underground club circuit for some years now. 2018 has seen him...
You’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow when told that Seb Wildblood is one of the most prolific figures in the UK’s underground scene. As...
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The UK’s most electrifying DJ hits another landmark with her fabric mix: a euphoric, adrenaline-laced trip into pressurised breakbeat chaos
With an unrestrained take on disco, house and funk, Amsterdam’s Kamma is a star in the making. Ahead of several performances this year’s ADE, we...
Francesca Lombardo may have a background in classical, but it’s as a techno and house DJ that she tours the world. Ahead of her debut...
First thrown into the global spotlight in 2011 as Crosstown Rebels’ “first lady”, Francesca Lombardo has, over the last seven years, confirmed her standing in...
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Over the past three years, the name RIOT CODE has become synonymous with a strain of hard, fast techno, landing on labels like Noise Manifesto, HOMAGE and NineTimesNine and hammered out at parties like Teletech. Formerly a duo, the Derry-based project is now an individual venture for Oliver Grant, who’s ready to lift the trademark mask and take things to the next level. Alongside a storming Recognise mix that capture’s RIOT CODE’s past, present and future sounds, he speaks to Olivia Stock about going solo, navigating the techno scene as a trans artist, and what the future holds
For long-serving Berlin techno queen Ellen Allien, a return to the physical — in both the way she plays and makes music — has re-energised...
She's been playing gigs in record shops, buying and playing lots of vinyl, and made her new album, 'Nost', using mainly analogue equipment. Her seventh...
Who are the most exciting Ram acts now? We delve deeper into the world of Ram...
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29,200 Twitter followers, 126,569 Facebook fans and charting at No.8 in the UK Official Top 40, Wilkinson is big news, but it hasn't always...
Whether you call their music Dirty Dutch, the Dutch Sound or just Dutch house, the main players from Holland's house scene such as Afrojack, Chuckie...
The Dutch, in case you hadn't noticed, are taking over. Following years in which the country's trance DJs have occupied the upper echelons of DJmag's...
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Vintage Culture has come a long way from a small town in Brazil to playing stadiums, topping dance charts and partying with football royalty. After suffering near-burnout from constant touring, he’s recharged and full of vitality, with a deeper sound he loves with all his heart, hundreds of tunes ready to go, Ibiza and Las Vegas residencies scheduled, and a set lined up at DJ Mag's Miami Pool Party
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DJ Mag spoke to two of the scene’s icons about their takes on the scene in 2013, their manifold future plans, and the enduring spirit...
When DJ Mag enters a disused pub in south-east London’s Rotherhithe, we find LTJ Bukem has arrived early and is waiting patiently for us on a sofa in the pub’s old bar area. A true originator of drum & bass, Bukem, aka Danny Williamson, then throws himself into his part of the photo-shoot in a small, sparsely-lit room, which, much to everyone’s amusement, was once the gents’ toilets in the now-converted boozer.
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Known as the “queen of the Palestinian techno scene”, Sama' Abdulhadi was becoming internationally recognised as a powerful force in dance music until a gig...