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Acid pioneer DJ Pierre and more confirmed for final BMC line-up

The Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is only just over a week away, and excitement is building in the dance music industry in the UK for...

The Sound Of: Critical Music

As the underground drum & bass label celebrates its 20th anniversary, Critical Music founder Kasra records a breakneck mix of tracks from its catalogue, and chats to Jake Hirst about the imprint’s history and constant evolution

“I started the label as a hobby and didn’t know where it would take me. So when I look back and think about everything we’ve...

The making of Sanchez's seminal club cut

This is the story of how Roger Sanchez made his seminal club cut  — 'Another Chance'.


Electronic music history is rich with unforgettable and timeless...

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It has been another incredible year in electronic music. New genres have sprung up, new parties born, and we have had to say some sad...

TYGAPAW: music for the revolution

TYGAPAW makes music with a message of liberation, and of working toward a world where everyone is free to be true to themselves. It also happens to be music that slams. Bruce Tantum meets the Brooklyn-based artist to learn about their long journey to get to where they are now, and the road ahead

There’s a documentary called Underplayed, released in 2020, that focuses on gender, ethnic, and sexual equality issues within the electronic music world as seen “through...

While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...

Whether celebrating individuals and movements that helped shaped where dance music culture is today, or commemorating everything coronavirus took from us in spring 2020, the...

A brand new digital resource packed with archive mixes, radio shows, documentaries, and written articles 

The Dance Music Archive has gone live, documenting 30 years of club and rave culture online. 

A huge resource, visitors to the website can sort...

Eric Prydz announces Miami Music Week party

The Pryda boss will play the annual electronic music fixture alongside Maceo Plex and more

Eric Prydz has announced a party for Miami Music Week next month, taking over RC Cola Plant in the Florida city's Wynwood Art District on...

The state of the environment has never been worse, but could

dance music be contributing to the problem? DJ Mag regular

Martin Guttridge-Hewitt examines if...

From South East Asia to the Western US, North to South Africa, people can’t get enough of synths and syncopated rhythms. Electronic beats are officially...

As part of our end of year and end of decade coverage, we've written about our favourite albums, tracks and compilations. Here, DJ Mag staff...

DJs and producers are supposed to be on the same side. For decades now, producers have made the music, and DJs have played it. Simply...

And here's why you need to know about them...

When Will Saul set up a little off-shoot to his Simple label with Ninja Tune artist Fink way back in 2006, it’s doubtful either of...

Disco Sucks and the birth of house music

Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...

Plus Above & Beyond, Nero (live), RL Grime...

Electric Forest has revealed the initial artist line-up for its seventh annual music and camping festival in Rothbury, Michigan. For the first time in the...

As we enter a new decade, the ways in which we define electronic music styles are rapidly changing. Chal Ravens explores the etymological evolution of...

Bickering over genre definitions is a time-honoured tradition in dance music. One of the weirder etymological developments of recent years is the changing meaning of...