“It’s almost like drug dealing,” laughs Rob Ford, a 52-year-old author and music producer, who spends his evenings meeting strangers in car parks and exchanging...
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A new book collects the most prized of all rave memorabilia: the membership card. Filled with classic design work, it’s a window on a transformative era. Collector and compiler Rob Ford tells DJ Mag about how the project came together, while DJs and designers share their memories of the time
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Sexual harassment is a widespread problem that remains prevalent in our supposedly progressive dance music scene. A number of new initiatives have proposed a solution...
In the year since the #MeToo movement, those who were previously unaware have, at last, been waking up to the horrifying pervasiveness of sexual harassment...
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It's the debut documentary from Glitterbox
A new documentary on the power of dance music, Where Love Lives, is out this week.
Global party brand Glitterbox, founded by Defected boss Simon...
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"I want all black people to know that the genre of Dance is their heritage"
Aluna shares open letter to "challenge the 'dance music industry' on its long standing racial inequalities".
AlunaGeorge frontwoman, Aluna Francis, who is currently working on...
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Some of the most important DJs in the development of the UK scene are children of the Windrush generation. DJ Mag's editor-in-chief, Carl Loben, speaks to Black and mixed-race foundation DJs about their parents, racism, culture, and being pioneers in our beloved scene
Back to the 90s...
Whilst dance music is becoming more and more colourful thanks to elrow and the like, there’s something about the early days of rave in the...
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It's the 62nd best-selling vinyl record of the 2010s
It's offical: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' is the best-selling dance music album on vinyl this decade.
Recently revealed to be the best-selling album on...
Schoolings for rising stars from those in the know...
PRS for Music and DJ Mag present INSIGHT, a six-part panel series that starts on Tuesday 3rd October.
The panels, that will take place on...
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Out now, the four-track EP the newest release from rising London label Scenic Route
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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As we regrettably stated earlier this year, Push PR music publicist — and one half of the Botchit & Scarper act SOTO — Sonia...
The definitive dance music directory
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2011/2012 Edition - Now out
DJ Blackbook is a comprehensive database for DJs, producers and promoters. It contains vital contact information...
The OAP dance music takeover continues...
An OAP in Folkestone, Kent has had his D&B collection and turntables confiscated by authorities after ignoring repeated warnings from Shepway District Council.
Peter Tuppen...
48 hours that shook dance music...
The BPM Festival in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico was hit by tragedy earlier this week, when gunfire at the event’s Elrow closing party at the...
The dance music stalwarts get ‘Gangsta’
Who said dance music can’t be thuggish?
EDM lynchpin, Benny Benassi and staple producer, MOGUAI hook up to create their own version of the...