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Lady of the House launches record label with production competition

Jaguar, Charlie Tee, Sam Divine and Becky Hill will A&R the label’s first releases

Lady of the House has launched a new record label. Announced by the platform’s co-founder, Laila Mckenzie, at this year’s Brighton Music Conference, A&R for...

Vinyl is back, but the format comes with a serious environmental cost. As the dance music world attempts to go greener, some companies are working out ways...

From the travelling of punters and touring artists, to the plastic consumption in nightclubs and festivals, all the way to the production of equipment and...

We meet Jason Kendig and Jackie House of the San Fran party starters, in a converted Leyland Roadrunner backstage of Block9 at Glastonbury this year...

Shortly after 9pm on the Thursday night at Glastonbury this year, Jason Kendig and Jackie House of Honey Soundsystem are opening the Genosys stage of...

The out-of-the-box big beat anthem from the Wall Of Sound act Propellerheads

Based in Bath in south-west England, near musical hot-spots Glastonbury and Bristol, Alex Gifford had some quite varied early musical experiences. He played sax with...

A rising number of producers are making music that creates a soundtrack to those calmer moments in life. DJ Mag investigates...

Summer is in full swing, Ibiza still rocks and festival season has blossomed into hundreds of live-music infused explosions, happening in far-flung spots all over...

The fight to preserve Ukraine’s electronic music culture in a time of war

Amidst the horrors of russia's war on Ukraine, local DJs, producers and music professionals have had their lives ripped apart, but many have passionately continued their work at home and abroad, using their experience to provide funds and direct aid to causes on the ground. Here, Tanya Voytko talks to artists from across the country about their personal experiences over the past six months, and to learn how they’re striving to preserve and promote their rich and diverse electronic music culture

I started writing this article on 22nd June, the day of remembrance for the victims of World War II in Ukraine. At dawn on that...

Here we go again, eh? It feels like the time between the closing bashes and the Ibiza opening bell rung annually by the International Music...

Kiwi is the former photographer who now rubs shoulders with Duke Dumont & Andrew Weatherall. We sit down in Dalston to chart his rise...

Making it as a successful DJ is a tough gig. It takes commitment, passion and most of all, persistence. No one knows this better than...

Salute looking straight at the camera. They are wearing a multi-coloured fluffy sweater and leaning with their hands placed on a pool table

Vienna-born, Manchester-based salute’s DJ sets and productions shine at the intersection of garage, French house and ‘80s synth styles. Ahead of the release of their star-studded debut album on Ninja Tune, they tell Kamila Rymajdo about their musical upbringing, flying the flag for Black artistry, and their joyful sound that, simply, makes people feel good

salute is thinking about their legacy. “I want to make music not just for the sake of making music, I want to do it because...

Recognise is DJ Mag's monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music circuit. This month, London-based Hyperdub affiliate...

Chicago trio on their b2b2b tour

Three of Chicago's most respected DJs, they're repping real house music harder than ever in an age of commercialisation and corporate EDM. Touring together as Back to Back to Back, we thought it was time to pick their brains about their Chicago beginnings, the switch to digital, the US dance boom — and where they're at now...

We troll him about his hatred of EDM...

Uncompromising, passionate, and very opinionated: Dave Clarke is the man John Peel famously dubbed the Baron of Techno. As one of the consultants for the...

DJ Mag investigates the cynical money-making practice of digital music piracy...

Music piracy used to be a bit of home-taping of the Top 40 chart off the radio, or some guys selling illegal live bootleg tapes...

Street-hop is a sound from Lagos, Nigeria that mutates as it moves between different neighbourhoods; creating new beats, themes and dance crazes as it goes...

Lagos is a city that never sleeps. Home to roughly 15 million people, the coastal megacity and economic capital of Nigeria is always on the...

Paranoid London are on a mission to bring back the rawness of old house, with their skeletal acid tracks and Chicago-influenced beats. We head to...

It’s not just the scorching temperature that’s causing us to sweat, as we wander around the back streets of Hackney trying to locate Paranoid London’s...