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Bass Coast announces Hessle Audio, DJ Stingray 313, Cinthie, more for 2024 festival

Ash Lauryn, Conducta, Bakey and others will also play the Canadian event this summer

Bass Coast has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2024 edition. Taking place in the Canadian city of Merritt, British Columbia, this year's...

Josey Rebelle

Peaches, Hot Chip and Honey Dijon are also due to perform at the nine-day event

Grace Jones has added the final names to her Meltdown Festival line-up. Former DJ Mag cover star Josey Rebelle, Greentea Peng, cktrl, Eska and Alewya...

Alok launches ticket giveaway competition for sold-out Ministry of Sound debut

The Brazilian DJ will also host a meet & greet at DJ Mag’s HQ

ALOK has launched a ticket giveaway competition for his show at London’s Ministry of Sound on 12th March. The Brazilian DJ makes his London debut...

Plastikman album cover

Brooding and austere, Richie Hawtin’s third album under the Plastikman alias is a minimalist masterwork

When first encountering ‘Consumed,’ Richie Hawtin’s third studio album under the Plastikman name, a normal reaction might be like that of the prehistoric hominids in...

Techno tourism Glasgow style...

Scotland’s largest city Glasgow should do more to promote itself as an international music destination, a new report has recommended.

Currently, the city’s vibrant music...

Octo Octa in a red cut out top against a blue background

From her first release as Octo Octa in 2011, there’s always been an element of rapturous freedom inherent to Maya Bouldry-Morrison’s music. But since coming out as a trans woman and meeting her life/work partner Eris Drew, that feeling is rendered in brighter shades than ever. Taking time out from a European tour, Bouldry-Morrison details her road to house music happiness

This feature originally appeared in print in the June issue of DJ Mag North America. It has been amended for online publication, due to two...

Amsterdam’s record shops are renowned in the European dance scene, crammed with cuts that have made local DJs into stars and ensured that Dekmantel festival is...

Westerstraat 2441015 MT AMSTERDAMMonday: closedTues-Fri (exc. Thurs): 11am-6pmThurs: 11am-9pmSat: 10am-6pmSunday: closedIf you're heasing out West to Distortion, you’ll want to dedicate as much time as...

Real Gang header featuring Nicolau and gang

DJ Mag sits down with brand co-founder, DJ and producer Nicolau Caldeira to chat about Real Gang, the clothing company and record label creating a forward-thinking, underground community

In 2015, Nicolau Caldeira spent a summer in Ibiza with his step brother Pete and friend Miller. With a shared synchronicity when it came to...

Vintage '90s images taken from old free party events

In the summer of 1989, DiY collective — one of the first house sound systems in the UK — emerged onto the rave scene. In this excerpt taken from founding member Harry Harrison's book, Dreaming in Yellow, he discusses DiY's role within that movement, and the importance of free parties during the '90s rave scene

Much has been written and debated over the years about just why the concept of a ‘free’ party was so important. Much more than simply...

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...

Hooversound is the burgeoning UK club label run by SHERELLE and NAINA. As the much-hyped imprint celebrates its first release, prepares for the future, and...

Events will take place in London, New York, Oslo, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami...

Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ turned 15-years-old in February, and to mark the occasion Classic Album Sundays has announced six listening sessions to hear the album on...

ADE is barely luke warm and already eyes are back on Amsterdam. Let's reach Valhalla

That's it. Over. Phew! ADE has been and gone for another year, bringing with it another shitstorm of parties, spandangled industry folk and a multitude of missed planes. Farewell, 'Dam, it's been emotional. Until next year, right?

TR One readies a deep and sharp 60 minutes of house and electro as part of our Fresh Kicks series...

TR One’s music has that rare and lovely quality of feeling heavy and light at the same time. Over a selection of releases on labels...

Billy Nasty shot by Carl Loben

A stalwart of the UK’s dance music community for over 30 years, DJ Billy Nasty was a pioneer of '90s progressive house before launching his techno and electro labels, Tortured and Electrix. A true vinyl devotee, he now runs the Vinyl Curtain record shop in Brighton. Harold Heath meets him in his home town to talk mix CDs, underground dance music history, running labels and the enduring importance of vinyl DJing

It’s fitting that DJ Mag meets acid house original, world-class DJ, UK techno trailblazer, mix-CD pioneer and vinyl-devotee Billy Nasty in his record shop The...