Amapiano (also known as ipiano or ’piano) began in the streets of Gauteng, South Africa, in the early 2010s. The now world-conquering sound is a...
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Amapiano has become a world-conquering genre since emerging in South Africa over a decade ago, with the sound mutating in recent years to solidify its place as an embedded dance music culture. Here, Shiba Melissa Mazaza asks: who are the South African artists carrying the torch for amapiano right now?
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From DIY imprints putting out 160bpm club bangers, forward-thinking electro cuts, twisted acid and rave sounds, through to big room techno's brightest stars launching...
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As dance music culture recovers from the pandemic, artists like Klein, Clark and Afrodeutsche are opening up new frontiers for themselves
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Akala's Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire is a fiercely honest appraisal of growing up poor and mixed race in broken Britain...
MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of...
Gary Richards, aka DJ Destructo, aka lynchpin for the massive party brand HARD Events and OG music cruise Holy Ship discusses life as the HARDfather...
Sometimes it’s not easy to remember that Gary Richards is not only Destructo, a DJ and producer with daily increasing popularity, but that he is...
Brothers Chris and Alex Andre are big room dance titans DVBBS. With their immense stadium-smashing hits taking over the world, a new residency at Hakkasan...
Now that the initial Stateside EDM explosion has had some time to settle, its lasting impact on the music-loving youth of the day is finally...
Brothers Chris and Alex Andre are big room dance titans DVBBS. With their immense stadium-smashing hits taking over the world, a new residency at Hakkasan...
Now that the initial Stateside EDM explosion has had some time to settle, its lasting impact on the music-loving youth of the day is finally...
Drum & bass supremo Icicle is dropping some ice-cold beats on to the streets...
Dutch DJ/producer Jeroen Snik, better known to the world as Icicle, is regarded as one of the most technically advanced and highly-respected producers in his...
What do 2014's results tell us about the current dance music landscape?
Club-land worldwide has spoken once again. The votes for the Top 100 DJs Poll 2014 — more than 900,000 this year — have been counted...
Hospital Records' hottest new signings Fred V & Grafix are a duo equally at home crafting neon-lit d&b as they are electronic Fly Lo-style hip-hop.
Jet-lagged and laptop-laden, Fred Vahrman types away to DJ Mag on behalf of himself and his production partner Josh Jackson. Fred V & Grafix have...
Retro futurist house master
Ever cooked Kerri Chandler a fish dinner? Us neither, but Citizen — AKA retro-futurist house producer Laurence Blake — has, and if his culinary skills are anything like his tunes, Chandler would have been in for a treat...
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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, Nigeria’s DJ Neptune spotlights his recent favourite Afrobeats, Afropop and amapiano tracks
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Detroit saxophonist, producer, and vocalist Norma Jean Bell is responsible for some of house music’s most glorious moments, and has worked alongside the likes of Moodymann, K-Hand, Ron Trent and George Clinton. Her full-length opus, 'Come Into My Room', released in 2001, proved that she really is “the baddest bitch in this room”