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The Rainbow in Birmingham celebrates 10 years
Echoing the amazement of the “triple rainbow” guy on YouTube, Birmingham's The Rainbow Venues just keep on multiplying. Starting life as a grotty Victorian pub...
Listen to the German dance duo's most inspiring records
They've become one of the biggest live dance acts on the planet, and these are the tracks they picked out for DJ Mag as having had a profound influence on them over the years...
Liverpool's Chibuku has been mixing it up for a whole decade now. DJmag looks back...
LEGENDARY is a word that gets bandied about so lazily that it's just about lost all meaning, but in the case of Liverpool's Chibuku —...
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Every era of British dance music has its myths and over-simplified narratives — hell, even little known local scenes have urban legends. Below, Matt Anniss...
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The venue will welcome Honey Dijon, Patrick Topping and more during its opening month
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The reissue of the band's 1985 album will come with previously unheard and rare material
Take a spin of seven tunes that inspired Sasha...
Over the last couple of years, alongside the luscious, hypnotic club music that he’s famous for, Sasha’s been working on a collection of tripped-out, textured...
Drum & bass MC eases out 'Mid Mic Crisis' on Marcus Intalex's label
MC DRS first got into MCing when he rocked up to a rave where Marcus Intalex was playing near Manchester, and asked for a go...
The pot begins to Perc
UK techno dude Perc, aka Ali Wells, had a momentous first clubbing experience while still at school, he tells DJ Mag. “I borrowed one of...
Small scale energy
You might think that the UK festival scene is over-saturated, and in many senses it is with more choice than ever for the seasoned cider...
We get down at Dublin’s brand new weekender...
Ten thousand glitter-covered festivalgoers letting loose to some of the world’s biggest live acts and DJs is not something you would usually see in Dublin...
Minus star on new album and playing The Warehouse Project
Part of Ritchie Hawtin’s unstoppable Minus crew, Marc Houle has often tempered his productions with a cheeky sense of humour. On ‘Drift’, however...
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"Writing 'Heather Park' in my mind was the melody and pulling as much emotion from the pluck as I could," he said
Acid house don Eddie Richards takes 10...
Eddie Richards is one of acid house's principal pioneers. A hugely important figure, he started out DJing in the early 1980s when he and a...
The mother of all festivals
Mother of all festivals, Glastonbury is a fantastic place to go for dance music fiends — and indeed for fans of pretty much any style of music. The DJ Mag crew arrive on Saturday morning, having already missed a wealth of talent such as Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, Julio Bashmore and Gold Panda, as well as Chic, the Arctic Monkeys and Portishead, but it doesn’t matter as there’s plenty more to be had over the next two days of frivolities.