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Tali by Jamie Lees

Tali was the first female drum & bass MC to feature on DJ Mag’s cover in 2004, coinciding with the release of her debut album ‘Lyric On My Lip’ on Full Cycle. Nearly 18 years on from that trailblazing release, Jake Hirst connects with the artist to discuss her self-produced eighth studio album, ‘Future Dwellers’, and the journey of self-worth that lead to it

“I was so busy and stressed back then, but I was having the time of my life,” Tali says, sitting back in her chair with...

DRS performing live

With a career spanning 30 years, more than 400 tracks to his name and a history hosting the biggest stages, DRS recently embarked on a new, ground-breaking chapter with his headline live show tour: The Man Who Fell To Earth. Jake Hirst hears the story behind a project representing something much greater than music for DRS

A Thursday night drum & bass gig in Bristol is standard these days, considering its reputation as a home for d&b. But this event is...

With fun as their prime directive, they're on the rise — and loving every minute...

Photo by Raymond van Mil

The rise – and rise – of Detroit Swindle has shocked none more than flying Dutchmen Lars Dales and Maarten...

The five nights you need to hit in the UK this October!

1 SIMPLE THINGS, BRISTOL
FRIDAY 25th – SATURDAY 26th OCTOBER

CARIBOU (LIVE), MOGWAI, DJ HARVEY, JESSY LANZA, ZOMBY, LIARS, SOPHIE, NIGHTMARES ON WAX, DJ...

Plus listen to his new tune 'Faded Denim Wash' 

Maybe it was having the twenty first century breathing down our collective neck, but late 1990s pop culture was awash in retro-futurism, particularly the kind...

How can we make clubbing better for disabled people? When events return in 2021, clubs need to be more accessible for disabled guests and performers...

Dance music has never appeared to be more accessible. Despite clubs being closed for over a year, new crews and initiatives are constantly popping up...

Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...

Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...

Escape the crowds by hitting the waves... 

The White Island is synonymous with sessions everywhere from clubs to villas, but the award-winning Boats Ibiza lets hedonists take the party onto the waves and rent...

Scuba (stage) diving!

The Hotflush boss swapped the grimy innards of basement clubs for the cavernous realms of The Forum for his latest live show...

The top parties coming to your city this Halloween; all things Amsterdam in time for 2017’s ADE and up close and personal with Anja Schneider....

For those not already in the know, there’s quite a few incarnations of DJ Magazine propping up news stands around the globe. Here, we count...

Next generation

Of late it seems that not a month goes by without a big announcement coming from Native Instruments’ Berlin headquarters that promises to change the...

J Shadow by Chelone Wolf

J-Shadow blends weightless rave experimentation with depth-charge bass, breaks and garage in his 100% productions mix for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Ben Hindle about storytelling through music, the influence of science and nature, and his new album for Keysound

J-Shadow is something of an enigma. Search online and you’ll discover very little about the man, but you will increasingly find his music. In just...

A vital document of music in 2002, ‘As Heard...’s headline-grabbing mixes of well-known tracks helped sneak a handful of underground dance classics into more than...

In 2002, when 2 Many DJ’s’ ‘As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2’ hit the shelves in Europe, dance music was in the middle of...

ESI’s AKTIV05 and AKTIV08 speakers give DJs studio sounds at a price that will make them smile

While being something of a relative newcomer to the studio monitor market, ESI have been building up a reputation for building speakers for project and bedroom studios that don’t cost an arm and a leg. Active monitors are often a very pricy addition to a studio, and while they cut out the need to buy amplification, sometimes they can be more expensive than buying the speakers and amplifiers separately.

The Sound Of: Critical Music

As the underground drum & bass label celebrates its 20th anniversary, Critical Music founder Kasra records a breakneck mix of tracks from its catalogue, and chats to Jake Hirst about the imprint’s history and constant evolution

“I started the label as a hobby and didn’t know where it would take me. So when I look back and think about everything we’ve...