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At what point did remixing mainstream pop rubbish become acceptable?
Don't get DJ Mag wrong, there's been a long tradition of the remix as a credibility boost in the music industry. Back in the day, from the late '80s and the first crossover of house music onwards, dire popstrels of the ilk of Simply Red and the Spice Girls (or rather their record companies) would be queuing up for a taste of authentic dance flavour, getting cool names to remix their tracks in order to boost sales of 12”s.
The Garage, Leeds
Larry Levan's NY mecca might be gone (not forgotten), but The Garage is already the place on Leeds' lips less than 10 months in...
London's longest-serving Techno night, Lost.
As one half of Basic Channel, Mark Ernestus has one of the most influential back catalogues in electronic music. And just as Basic Channel releases were as eagerly anticipated as Santa dropping down the chimney with a sack of white labels for the techno cognoscenti during the 1990s, so Ernestus’ rare DJ appearances are almost as mythical an event. Or to put it another way, if you were to book him, you probably wouldn’t stick him in a back bar at the end of the night.
Is Promo Push the future of dance music promotion?
We take a look at the next generation of music promotion
The really wild show!
Stepping out of the feral confines of Ibiza's Gala Night to launch a massive event in a safari park in Kent, Zoo Project Festival is breaking new ground, even for us...
A Tribe Called Red’s ‘pow-wow-step’ thrills and excites
Did Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus ‘discover’ America 500-odd years ago? No! He may have been one of the first white men to open up the...
DJ Mag loses its mind at a hotel complex eight miles outside of Middlesborough at Goodgreef
“Here's Johnny!” growls a demented Jack Nicholson in what's considered, in this correspondent’s mind anyway, the most psychologically disturbing film ever made. Nope, we haven't...
Apple’s Garageband app for the iPad lets you make beats — and not just in your house
When the iPad 2 launched, a ripple of excitement ran through the music-making community. Not only because the successor to Cupertino’s tablet continued to prove...
Win Funkagenda's incredible live set up
Setting yourself up as a DJ and producer is an expensive business in the digital age, with a whole load of hardware and software needed...
The Annual International Festival of Hip-Hop Dance Theatre Returns
Words: Bianca Mitchell
This May bank holiday weekend sees the international festival of hip-hop dance theatre popping and locking its way back to London town....
The clubs that changed dance music forever<BR>
Mention the words 'Space', 'Bar Rumba' and 'Wednesday night' to any serious connoisseur of quality house and you can guarantee their eyes will...
