“I never consciously liked trance,” says Sam Barker. Until last year, the British-born, Berlin-based artist was best known as a co-founder of the Leisure System...
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Dispensing with hammering kick-drums in favour of a more expansive sound, Berlin-based Brit, Barker, has become one of Ostgut Ton’s most-celebrated artists in recent years. DJ Mag chats...
Less a secret, more a yearly celebration of hedonism and childishness, this year's Secret Garden Party proves why it is one of the UK's most...
Heading along the winding countryside roads of Abbots Ripton, after stocking up on Strongbow at the nearby Tesco, Gardeners like ourselves meet playful signs... 'Imagination...
We interview Maxxi Soundsystem on his 'best year' yet.
It's been the 'best year' of his life and Maxxi Soundsystem has certainly brought joy to many others along the way via tours around world and plenty of high profile releases.
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What’s left to do when you’ve been voted one of the top 10 DJs in the world (no.9, to be precise), have released six albums...
It's like the Dragons Den for DJ Technology at the BPM show. Time to get voting as we reveal who is in the running to...
We're taking the inaugural DJmag Tech Awards to an exciting new climax as we go Live in front of a show audience!
This Grand Finale...
The UK's biggest dance music show is just around the corner with shedloads of confirmed attractions...
With only a week to go, news is still flooding in fast about DJ Live - the UK's top-class dance music industry exhibition.
DJ Live...
When is a band not a band? We aim to find out...
When is a band not a band? When it’s one or two electronic music producers recording albums that sound like bands? The dividing line between...
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A rapper, producer and head of the No Days Off brand, Knucks smashed into the UK album charts this year with his ‘Alpha Place’ project, presenting his ‘chill drill’ sound in all its evolved glory. His triumphant homecoming show at KOKO in Camden saw collaborators like Stormzy, SL, Youngs Teflon and Ragz Originale join him on stage. Here, Yemi Abiade meets the Londoner to learn how there are now no limitations on his future
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From AUDRA festival in Kaunas, Lithuania, Martin Guttridge-Hewitt reports on a long-standing, tight-knit and thriving electronic music scene often overlooked by outsiders
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With hi-def club sounds, hardcore techno, frenzied mash-ups and mutant EDM, Swan Meat takes the Fresh Kicks mix series to another dimension
The music that makes us feel most alive, and most like ourselves, is not always what we expect: and for Cologne-based, Washington D.C-born artist, Swan...
We catch up with the DJ, producer and label boss on the island to talk music-making, opening parties and defining the Rumors sound...
“Do you mind if I play this while we talk?”
Guy Gerber is brandishing a cherry-red Fender Strat and puffing casually on a cigarette. We’re...
Italian progressive whiz dishes on his debut artist album, 'Towards'
“I don’t judge music by genre. I listen to techno, I listen to classical, I listen to everything. And I try to only listen to...
The inaugural Dirtybird Campout is something to write home about...
Best. Festival. Experience. Ever. Comradery and community are back in the electronic music scene thanks to the Dirtybird Campout. The first-ever edition of the event made...
Sonar can't be beaten when it comes to mixing the banging with the experimental. For over 20 years the Barcelona festival has kept it real...
There are many contenders to the crown but only one king. When it comes to festivals, there's nothing else like Sonar — the Barcelona event...