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A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

No Dial Tone join the Classic Music family

The latest additions to the Classic Music company are No Dial Tone, aka Norwegian duo Vibeke and Kristina. Their 'Bjork meets Matthew Herbert' neo-boompty house...

Reviving the sounds of classic clubbing eras

From 29th - 31st of July, London’s Southbank Centre will be transformed into 21 acres of captured past celebrating art, fashion, music, film, design and...

We take on the 'Homework' classic in our latest 60-Second Synth Sounds...

Daft Punk's 'Da Funk' is a true classic, its squelchy synth riff instantly recognisable since it was released in 1997. Our new '60-Second Sound' series...

Haddaway classic steps out of Night at the Roxbury and into the deep

What is love? It’s a question many have sought to answer, but London-hailing connoisseur of all things dance, Donea'O, may just have the sonic...

Stream Bristol duo's new bangers for Idle Hands

Jacob Martin and Matt Lambert, with their Outboxx project, have managed to seep into the consciousness of clued-up UK house heads without really making a song and dance about it. Partly because, until now, their music hasn't encouraged people to do exactly that — not literally anyway.

A retrospective 20 Year mix exclusively for DJmag readers!

In case you haven't noticed, we turned 20 this year!

To help us celebrate, dance music icon Danny Tenaglia has mixed one of the most...

The guitarist and singer turns his hand to another dance chart hit

San Holo has unveiled a cover version of the 1999 trance chart hit, 'Better Off Alone', by Alice Deejay. 

Originally an instrumental track produced in...

Stream the show in full!

Ever wished you could hear dance music's biggest anthems — think Fatboy Slim, Eric Prydz, Shapeshifters and more! — played completely live by an orchestra...

Mysteryland's US edition returns to Woodstock

Break out your hemp satchels and Birkenstock sandals. Mysteryland is returning for its second year at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

Dance music icon looks back

Whether as Lionrock, The Prankster, Revtone or most recently The Deadstock 33s ('Underneath The Pines' out this month), Justin Robertson has been making his mark on dance music since his Manchester uni years. The man behind Most Excellent at The Haçienda during the early '90s and a Bugged Out! resident since the beginning — and still now — these days you'll catch him sporting sailor stripes, a twisted moustache and a tweed jacket at any number of trendy jaunts across the capital most weekends, either in the booth or in the thick of the dancefloor.

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Manchester duo Rae & Christian spearheaded the soul/funk-hop scene of the late '90s. Their Grand Central label released great music by Aim (including chill-out classic ‘Cold Water Music’), Riton, Boca 45 and more, not to mention their own superb two albums. 
‘Northern Sulphuric Soul’ — their fantastic debut opus of sunshine soul grooves and dope beats, which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize — and follow-up ‘Sleepwalking’ in 2002 featured guests such as Bobby Womack, Jeru the Damaja, The Pharcyde and the Jungle Brothers.

Friday dance music report October 31, 2014

Kick the weekend off with American DJ, producer and vocalist, Lea Luna’s curation of the top eight releases in dance music this week.

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Derrick May will DJ alongside deep house legend Ron Trent in Chicago this Friday, to help raise money for charity.

Deep house legend Ron Trent will team up with Detroit's techno don Derrick May for a DJ session at his Chicago clubnight Africa Hi-Fi this...