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Secret Solstice fest is just the tip of the iceberg...

Iceland is famous for many things, not the least of which are its breathtaking, otherworldly landscapes and steady stream of musical exports. Dance music aficionados...

And see him spin at DJ Mag Sessions tomorrow night!

Fred P has been at the forefront of New York’s house scene for over a decade now.

The Queens DJ and producer has been putting...

The Italian titan of the decks Mauro Picotto returns...

Mauro Picotto is like his native Italy’s finest desert, tiramisu. His nature is sweet and easy to indulge in. You...

Danny Daze Take 10...

Hailing from Miami, Danny Daze was schooled on Miami bass before discovering Italo disco and Detroit techno. He's now one of the most diverse jocks...

Listen to an exclusive track from the AVOTRE producer's new LP

Hamburg born, Berlin based jackin’ house and techno talent Sidney Charles has just released his new album entitled ‘House Lessons’ through AVOTRE; a label he...

Anja Schneider, Lee Foss & Kevin Saunderson all added to the bill!

Puerto Plata’s Groovefest has just announced the second wave of artists set to perform at the all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. Anja Schneider, Art...

Point Blank explore the new features

Pioneer Rekordbox has been a revolution for CDJ DJs who wanted to move beyond CDs to get more creative with their mixing. It has become the go-to software for...

DJs' negative publicity campaigns and Twitter beefs are getting on our resident ranter's wick...

Hey bird brains! You know what really gets on my wick? What really fucking winds me up? DJs, producers, artists (I use the term loosely)...

Iconic Singapore club under threat of closure

Earlier this week, we told you that one of Asia’s finest, and most popular nightclubs - Zouk - was under threat of closure.

You have...

Solid, chunky house grooves from hot UK house talent

Solid gold. Two words that spring to mind when we think of Dale Howard's productions.

Encountering a purple patch in 2013 and 2014, the Liverpudlian...

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...

More and more women are taking to the decks. But there are some sexist idiots who can't get their heads round it...

Man approaches decks. “Alright love,” he says. Although my heart sinks, I smile politely and say hello back, hoping he’s not going to try and...

When did dance get so damned elitist?

“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove… One day Jack declared, "Let there be HOUSE!" and house music was born. And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all... Jack is the one that can bring nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House.”

The problem? Too many DJs...

Slowly and surreptitiously over the course of the last decades, a plague has infested and infected club land. It’s a disease that has eaten away at the core art of the DJ and at the very dynamics of almost any club night you care to attend.

Commercial dance and rap don't fit

EDM doesn't need rappers legitimising its stadium-sized stasis and banality