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Meet the MC is DJ Mag's new monthly interview series, getting to know emerging MCs on the electronic music scene. This month, DJ Mag’s Amy...

Master Peace is settled into a booth at The Courthouse Hotel in Shoreditch.  Nestled amongst bare bricks and leather seats, the South London MC oozes an infectious...

With their 13-week XOYO residency in London now in full flow, we chat to Belfast-bred duo Bicep about starting trends, busting genre tags and curating...

From on-trend bloggers to trend-setting DJs, the Bicep duo are about as iconic as it gets in underground music. That bold muscular stamp has been...

Yuksek sits down for a chinwag

Reims lies just 80 miles northeast of Paris in the French countryside, its biggest claim to fame is it’s one of France’s most notable champagne...

Is nothing original anymore?

There are so many nonsensical phrases that people love blindly bandying about. You know the ones, the proverbial drivel that people throw around in states of cod-philosophical self-approbation, even if it actually makes about as much sense as Joey Barton’s Twitter feed.

Riots severely damage music industry as record labels lose stock in warehouse fire

The recent riots sweeping across London since Saturday have proved disastrous for a large number of music labels - mostly small independents - after a...

Double O and Mantra stand side by side on a dark, green-light background, Mantra's arm on Dubz shoulder

More than a club night and record label, Rupture has become a nexus point for the global jungle/drum & bass community, helping to galvanise a new generation while re-energising seasoned heads. Founders and life partners Mantra and Double O tell DJ Mag’s Ben Hindle about its evolution, and the importance of championing inclusivity and musical freedom

It’s early April and nearing 8am at East London nightclub, FOLD. The spirited vocal of DJ Vibes & Wishdokta’s ‘Midsummer Mist’ is cutting its way...

DJ Mag speaks to the club night’s key figures and plots the history of what may just be the final bastion of the acid house...

Maintaining the perfect blend of old skool rave and the finest contemporary leftfield sounds, as well as attracting one of dance music’s most passionate crowds, this year sees Bang Face celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Conducta is helping to spearhead the new wave of UK garage. His on-point productions, genre-traversing DJ sets and Kiwi Rekords label have made him a...

Speaking with British DJ, producer and label-head Conducta, 26, you’d be forgiven for thinking he was a seasoned music industry veteran with decades behind him...

Photo of DESIREE wearing a purple hat and eye-makeup on an emerald background

Soaring ascents, the kind that can take an artist from obscurity to stardom in what seems to be the blink of an eye, don’t occur often, in dance music or elsewhere – those who are lucky enough to have that experience often disappear just as quickly. But there’s little chance of a quick fade for South Africa’s Palesa Desiree Shilabje, the DJ and producer known to the world as DESIREE, who in just a few short years has proved to be one of the international festival circuit’s most exciting new stars. Here, Bruce Tantum hears her story, and about how her evolution through music has been as organic as they come

“I’m finally home.” Those three words are among the first that the South African DJ and producer Palesa Desiree Shilabje utters when DJ Mag catches...

Lukas Wigflex and the team behind his eponymous party brand have offered the people of Nottingham countless opportunities to let loose over the past decade...

“The first few events were all just a bit of fun. We just wanted to hear the music we liked that wasn’t being played in...

Kerri Chandler DJing

The package pays tribute to his late-father, Joseph E. Chandler Jr

Kerri Chandler has released 73 tracks as a free download through Bandcamp. Making the announcement on social media this week, the house music hero explained...

From savng his pennies as a teenager in Germany to becoming Berlin's star of techno and soul, Fritz Kalkbrenner opens up about his plight...

“I’d work from six in the morning until 10 in the evening, in February, up to your waist in cold water in those rubber...

Yen Sung posing in an indoor archway of an emtpy club. A disco ball hangs behind her

For three decades, Yen Sung has been at the beating heart of Lisbon’s club scene. As a longstanding resident at Lux and its downtown predecessor Frágil, and as a producer of timeless house tracks, she’s rightly earned her legendary in Portuguese dance music. But as April Clare Welsh learns, she’s busier and more energised than she’s ever been. Alongside a thumping On Cue mix of pure dancefloor energy, she shares her story

Yen Sung was right down the front when Prince performed a one-off show at Lisbon’s Lux Frágil club in December 1998. “It was amazing. Especially...

Nina Kraviz talks about Italo-disco, the RBMA, Detroit, Dance Mania, and her new label трип, as we lift the lid on her remarkable rise top...

When thinking of Siberia you're imagination is more likely to turn to endless tundra than techno clubs, the Russian region, which covers 10 percent of...

Death In Vegas man Richard Fearless gives us his Take 10 — and what a cool selection it is!

Fearless formed Death In Vegas two decades ago, quickly making a mark with the 'Dead Elvis' album of alt.electronica. Becoming a resident at the Heavenly...