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The promoters bringing funk to the UK club scene

Despite struggling to gain a meaningful foothold in an over-saturated clubbing circuit during its first 12 months, Motek is making moves to become one of the capital's leading forces.

Finnish phenomenon Rico Tubbs (Riku Pentti) is blowing away all-comers with his boundary-breaking, genre-hopping productions.

Leaping from funky breaks to B-More, and ghetto house to rave with aplomb, Tubbs' music is a real shot in the arm. Everyone from Switch...

The promotion teams bringing funk to the UK club scene

Nottingham has spawned a fair share of trailblazing dance nights. Dollop — now based in London — was booking Carl Craig and SMD on the same line-up back in 2007, before it was even a year old.

The promotion teams bringing funk to the UK club scene

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The promotion teams bringing funk to the UK club scene

According to Greek mythology, the Hydra is an aquatic serpent beast with multiple heads. To Londoners, however, thanks to Broken & Uneven, it’s become a different beast entirely — one made up not of reptilian heads, but 11 different top-class dance events running until New Year’s Eve.
Its launch — on Friday 24th August with an Ostgut Ton showcase featuring Marcel Dettmann, Marcel Fengler and label boss Nick Hoppner at a secret East London location — was a fitting way to open, considering Electric Minds’ Dolan Bergin and We Fear Silence’s Ajay Jayaram first crossed paths when Dolan brought the label to Cable in August 2011, when Ajay was a director at the club. Shortly after came Broken & Uneven; a London-based party that would serve as “…a vehicle with which to promote the music we love, across a wide-ranging spectrum of styles and genres,” Dolan tells DJ Mag.

Premiere: Breaka ‘Descending’

Breaka blends breaks, footwork, baile funk, UK funky, kuduro, trance and more on his debut album ‘We Move’. Hear ‘Descending’ now

Breaka will release his debut album on 18th February. Titled 'We Move', the nine-track release will arrive via the UK producer's self-titled label. Made on...

This issue's hottest four names in dance music


Lazersonic and Zak Frost
Glacial disco/house hybrid…


In the topsy-turvy world of sub genres, Lazersonic and Zak Frost are doing their bit to inspire some...

It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...

“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...

Royal-T is part of grime's next generation

With a fair few releases under his belt for labels like Butterz and No Hats No Hoods and remixes for cats like Zinc and Katy...

New York's legendary club night Body & Soul is coming to London for the very first time on the 14th July.

Canvas in King's Cross Freight Depot, London will be transformed to fully reflect the true spirit of the U.S. dance music mecca.


And it wouldn't...

Book Club line up DJ Format to play Mardi Gras New Year’s Eve party

New Year’s Eve; a time to celebrate, reflect and take stock of the future… so what better way to ring it in than with...

Garage/house goodness from Loose Synths

Unless you are a switched on head roaming London, it's unlikely you'll have heard of Loose Synths. Started as a blog focusing specifically on under-the-radar garage, house and bass by Spokes, Shooting Horses and DLVRY, the first Loose Synths release comes from one of the chief family members (including a remix from Spokes) is a golden nugget of 4/4 garage deserving of your attention. Expect to hear a lot more from these guys going forward.

Sam Interface is up next on Jamz Supernova’s Future Bounce with a club-ready two-tracker. Hear the chirping, psychedelic UK funky roller ‘Shadows’ now

Jamz Supernova’s Future Bounce label will round up its year-long series of club-focussed releases this week with a storming two-tracker from Sam Interface. 

Following releases...

As part of a new Backstreet Brit funk retrospective compiled by Joey Negro, Janet Kay’s classic ‘Eternally Grateful’ gets a rolling, exuberant dub mix...

Back in 2010, UK disco, house and funk luminary Joey Negro AKA Dave Lee compiled a thoroughly educational – and massively danceable – retrospective album...

Snappy chat with the German DJ ahead of Pacha London on Friday

We caught up with him to chat about current projects before he brings his distinctive DJ style to Pacha London on Friday (30th August).