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As part of DJ Mag's round-up of all the best in dance music in 2019, and in the 2010s, we decided to spotlight some of...
At Portugal’s Semibreve festival, we sat down with Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music and modular synthesis, and dance music disruptor Rian Treanor, who...
We drill down into why the London-based bros are such a hit...
Not only are brothers Danny and Kieran Clancy the minds behind London's hugely respected Krankbrother parties, a string of top-notch house and techno releases and...
Youth and popularity - the fabric that makes up today's music industry. Enter Madeon, he's young, he's popular. Yet, in our five-hour conversation with the...
In under 10 minutes of speaking to Hugo Leclercq, the man behind the construction known as Madeon, it is clear the musical phenom is, inarguably...
Raised on soundsystem culture, deep bass and inventive, cross genre music, Night Slugs co-owners and DJ/producers L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok have created a label...
February, early 2014, Peckham. The Night Slugs crew have announced that they will be holding a Boiler Room label showcase in a secret Peckham location...
DJ Mag investigates the cynical money-making practice of digital music piracy...
Music piracy used to be a bit of home-taping of the Top 40 chart off the radio, or some guys selling illegal live bootleg tapes...
We talk Boiler Room, Daft Punk and SW4 in this exclusive back-to-back interview between Tottenham’s DJ EZ and legendary US producer Todd Edwards...
Legends is a word that is bandied around so lazily these days that it often loses all meaning, but with Todd Edwards and DJ EZ, the cap well-and-truly fits.
Over the past three years, the name RIOT CODE has become synonymous with a strain of hard, fast techno, landing on labels like Noise Manifesto, HOMAGE and NineTimesNine and hammered out at parties like Teletech. Formerly a duo, the Derry-based project is now an individual venture for Oliver Grant, who’s ready to lift the trademark mask and take things to the next level. Alongside a storming Recognise mix that capture’s RIOT CODE’s past, present and future sounds, he speaks to Olivia Stock about going solo, navigating the techno scene as a trans artist, and what the future holds
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From masterful footwork and radiant house, to striking Latin beats, eclectic electro, breaks and beyond, here’s March 2024’s list of upcoming talent you should be keeping track of
On her new album for Modern Love, Mexican-American producer, DJ and audio engineer Delia Beatriz, aka Debit, combines ancient Mayan wind instruments with machine learning. Ahead of its release, she records a “pre-hispanic to post/transhispanic ambient mix” for the Recognise series, and speaks to Eoin Murray about DJing for Azaelia Banks, her desire to contribute to the canon of electronic music, and making ambient music that goes beyond “beautiful”
Across South-East Asia, a new generation of rappers is emerging. Drawing on the explosion of US trap and contemporary hip-hop sonics, and creating new flows...
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From rich, experimental techno and ambient to festival-ready house and trance, here's...
Tamsin Embleton was an event booker, promoter and artist manager for ten years before training as a psychotherapist. She's a founding member of the Music...
Despite being largely ignored by the west, Moscow has had a rich bass scene for over a decade. After reaching an impasse in 2015 as...
Using data from Top 100 DJs voters and house/techno Beatport purchases, we present the Alternative Top 100 DJs 2019