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The relationship between dance music and British politics has often been fraught and confrontational. But in the last five years, promoters and politicians have started...

Ever since the late 1980s, UK dance music’s interactions with politicians, police officers and mainstream public opinion have been defined by suspicion, misunderstanding or outright...

The awards ceremony took place at Amsterdam ArenA on Saturday (20th October)...

Claptone has won the Highest House award in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. The masked DJ/producer landed the No. 57 spot overall...

Unorthodox Events and Queer Rave are two club-nights that are creating new spaces for LGBTQ+ people in the drum & bass/jungle scene. Jack Ramage speaks...

The UK drum & bass and jungle scene lacks queer visibility. While issues like gender diversity and whitewashing have, in recent years, become the focus...

Photo of a crowd with colourful lights at Vietnam’s Equation Festival

Roza Terenzi, Di Linh, DJ Fart In A Club, Answer Code Request and more are set to perform in the limestone Mai Châu cave
 

Vietnam's Equation festival will return this April. The sixth edition of the Mai Châu event – which DJ Mag described as "a cave rave celebrating...

Educated by Point Blank 

DJ Mag is a UK music mag — born and bred. So every year, as a counterweight to the international Top 100 DJs poll, we...

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It's the first single of the year by the winners of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize 

Ezra Collective have returned with a new single, 'Ajala'. Stream it below. It marks the first single of the year from the winners of the...

Bonobo ATK

The track started life as an edit of Atakora Manu’s ‘Dada'

Bonobo has shared a new single and video, 'ATK', which is out now on his Outlier label in partnership with Ninja Tune. You can watch...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

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...

Berlin's Rave The Planet Parade announces line-up and floats for 2022

Established by the founders of the original Love Parade, crews from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, UK and Ukraine are all involved, with over 200 artists. 

Berlin's Rave the Planet Parade has announced the line-up and floats involved in this year's free event, which takes place on Saturday 9th July. A...

Errol and Alex Rita's Touching Bass label shares two new singles from ‘Soon Come’ compilation: Listen

'Miss U' by Ego Ella May and Blck Spvde's 'Save A Lil Seat feat. DJ Harrison' are available now. 

Two new tracks have been shared from 'Soon Come', a 22-track compilation due for release on Errol and Alex Rita's Touching Bass label in July...

The Berlin duo on their new film, Moderat's second album and the true spirit of techno...

When we recently caught up with monkey obssessed Berlin electro/techno duo Modeselektor – aka Gernot and Szary - it was before their only UK date of the year.

 A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

The state of the environment has never been worse, but could

dance music be contributing to the problem? DJ Mag regular

Martin Guttridge-Hewitt examines if...

From South East Asia to the Western US, North to South Africa, people can’t get enough of synths and syncopated rhythms. Electronic beats are officially...