The release of Tim Bergling’s posthumous ‘Tim’ album is inevitably bittersweet in the extreme. Whilst we’ve been gifted 12 tracks of pure, peak Avicii, the...
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MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum & bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...
“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.
Part two of our 'Black Sun' interview...
Here, we talk to regular Kode9 collaborator and vocal foil Spaceape (Stephen Gordon) about their new album together, 'Black Sun'...
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Nowadays, dance music is being made by people all over the world. This website will help you keep track of your collaboration projects.
Music producers, DJs, and clubnight promoters sometimes have to work
collaboratively in order to produce a tune or event.
The biggest organisational challenge is usually...
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For this masterclass, Point Blank were joined by Lily McKenzie to break down her track ‘You Don’t Know’ and showcase how you can work as...
Danny Howells isn't your typical DJ.
"For fuck's sake, hang on a sec, I'm scanning stuff, some Visa crap. My old agent used to do it but my new agent won't...
Weak MCs are ruining DJ sets. Respect the music, says our resident ranter...
Best days of our lives. Truly the internet age has made more music accessible to more of us than ever before. With infa-red agility we...
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The ‘Karaoke’ feature was discovered by a Reddit user
Spotify may soon let users control the levels of a vocal in any of the tracks in their catalogue. A leaked screengrab shows the Mac...
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We had an exclusive first listen to Avicii’s posthumous album ‘Tim’, which DJ Mag’s Harold Heath finds continues his musical journey to a more song-based approach...
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It's the title track from the Wu-Tang Clan leader's upcoming album with DJ Scratch
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"Honestly, I was dicking around"
Flume recently caught up with Triple J, a leading radio station in his native of Austrialia, to break down exactly how he produced his much-loved...
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
Galcher Lustwerk aspires to luxury. “When people say that I do ‘ghetto house’, or if they use the word ‘ghetto’ to describe my music, I...
Way more than a typical Midi controller, the Xone:2D is finally on sale.
At first glance, the Xone:2D might look like a chip off the mighty Xone:3D block, but it adds some clever audio soundcard functions, which make...
Electro pop misfits A.Human are taking over...
The highly-evolved rhythms and synth-infused electro beats of A.Human represent the ultimate marriage between man and machine. Led by arch replicant Dave Human, their insouciant...
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Maxi Jazz also wrote the lyrics to the iconic track in under an hour, he revealed in a recent Guardian interview
Faithless have opened up about the writing and recording of their iconic 1995 track ‘Insomnia’.
Two months on from announcing their first new album in...