“Here comes the hose!” On a sweltering August Saturday in 1999, the Body & Soul party packed New York City’s Grand Central Park for a...
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For New York DJ, artist and label boss Joaquin “Joe” Claussell, music is about spirituality and togetherness. With a new album, ‘Raw Tones’, released this...
We met him in London to talk about his dance epiphany, the importance of staying true to your vision, and giving his fans what they...
“Everything I do, I see myself as a bit of an outsider, I'm not strictly within the dance music world, I'm not strictly within the...
Leisureware “puts the lairy in Balearic” in his blissed-out, two-hour Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Eoin Murray about “low intervention” DJing and The Occasional Feel-Good party and Soho Radio show
It's been 10 years since seminal club The End closed its doors for the last time. We speak to the family members, close team, and...
In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, NEXCYIA spotlights adventurous ambient music filled with “exceptional sound design and captivating textures”
When Dax J made worldwide headlines last year for dropping an Islamic call to prayer sample during his set in Tunisia, it looked for a minute...
'Public indecency and offending public morality'. Before April last year, those words probably meant about as much to Dax J as his name did to...
The contribution of women throughout the history of electronic music has been huge, but too often undocumented...
By now the history of electronic music and its journey into clubs, concert venues, stadiums and homes worldwide is a well-established narrative. It’s a story...
New York’s Kindergarten Records has become an essential outpost for hard-to-define, easy-to-dance-to club music in just two short years. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, founder Ma Sha tells Sophie McNulty how friendship and a sense of fun are at the heart of the imprint
From underground beginnings to headline shows, we take stock of some of Monsieur Guetta’s defining moments...
David Guetta might just be the most divisive figure in modern day electronic music. To his legions of fans around the world, however, the charming...
LBS, Circus, Egg, London
Laurent Garnier's last-ever London Live Booth Session (LBS) at Egg is one way to warm up a bitter winter evening...
This month's ones to watch...
MOLLIE COLLINS
Master of the graft
There’s a lot of depressing shit going down in the world right now, but if you need a pick-me-up...
Pumping out chart-topping dance anthems since he was 19, Alesso solidifies his headlining stature with debut album ‘Forever’. Now 23, the mega-producer discusses his evolving...
Here’s a fun fact: the peak of the northernmost cliff in Europe, Kebnekaise MoHuntain in Alesso’s native Sweden, has the highest fixed point in the...
DJ Mag attempts to find out just why he's so popular...
Mladen Solomun is a big chap. A big, bearded Balkan bombshell with a penchant for mashing up epic strings and sprawling synth-scapes with the odd...
After the tragic events of Astroworld Festival last year, Will Pritchard examines the science, politics and history of crowd crushes at mass gatherings, and asks experts how organisers can make future large music events safer
Spanish DJ, producer and ARTCORE label founder Indira Paganotto’s irresistible hybrid of techno and psytrance has made her a huge star on festival stages and in superclubs, but her rise to the top has been beset with challenges. Niamh O’Connor speaks with her about sticking to her principles, her love of psytrance, the importance of the underground, and the balancing influence of family