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Native Instruments' Maschine is back for V2
Native Instruments have been changing the face of music production for some years now, and as one of the very first companies to produce synthesisers...
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DJ Mag visits Kuala Lumpur to find out how a growing infrastructure of venues and unlikely rave spaces is putting Malaysia on the map for...
It’s just gone midnight and in a Kuala Lumpur basement, a heaving, sweaty crowd are watching a DJ bang out techno in near-darkness. It’s easy...
9. Romero Britto
Art galleries can be a fairly tedious carry on. An orgy of intellectual chin-strokery with the sole aim of would-be critics raising...
Audeze’s new EL8 headphones deliver audacious sound at a relatively affordable price
Audeze are making huge waves in production circles. Their LCD X headphones have been adopted by producers and DJs, and are regularly getting props in...
Kings of the road
With the end of an era that came with the announcement that Technics were no longer making their undisputed industry standard turntables, the SL1200 and SL1210, a death knell rang. Finally, after so many years, all DJs have come to the realisation that vinyl is dead, right?
Behringer’s new NOX 404 Mixer delivers plenty of thrills, but at low prices
NOX is a new range of mixers from Behringer, boasting loads of functions to keep many a DJ happy. But unlike some of the heavyweight...
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Dublin’s Sputnik One blends bubbling techno, buoyant bass and depth-charge dancehall in his exhilarating Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Eoin Murray about balancing groove...
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Producing under the alias Renegade, Ray Keith delivered an instant classic in 1994's ‘Terrorist’, one of the most recognisable jungle tunes of all time. Its thumping chopped...
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As likely to play South African hip-hop as she is Congolese rumba, Egyptian jazz or Brazilian boogie, Gauteng-born, Manchester-based SNO is spreading the word about music often overlooked by the Western industry. Alongside her genre-spanning Recognise mix, she speaks to Kamila Rymajdo about familial influence, her chance start in DJing and sharing the music she loves
Black Coffee is South African house music's freshest talent...
Nkosinathi Maphumulo, aka Black Coffee, grew up in the city of Durban on the east coast of South Africa, and while studying music at college...
Come rain, come shine! Solomun's Diynamic crew battle the elements at an outdoor rave-up at Pacha Ibiza's plush Destino resort...
Diynamic is both a label and a family. Boasting a catalogue of carefully-crafted releases and a cool, low-key brand aesthetic, it’s no surprise that...
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The seminal tracks that altered dance forever!
In the mid-‘90s, drum & bass was the most futuristic, kick-ass, innovative UK-derived music around. After a gestation period in the underground, breakbeat science exploded into the mainstream, although that led to assorted TV ads and theme tunes and suchlike co-opting a d&b element to them. But because the scene itself was controlled by the DJs — Bryan Gee, Fab & Groove, Goldie, Hype etc — it was able to be steered back underground, so that by the end of the 20th century d&b was largely associated with the dark tech-step sound of No U-Turn et al.
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, NikNak spotlights ambient sound designs, jazz-infused hip-hop and high-def club experiments