On her second album, ‘Fatigue’, Brooklyn experimental artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist L’Rain (aka Taja Cheek) balances intimacy with abstraction. A release that explores the complex...
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German producer Kris Menace — famed for his huge, filtered and electro-funkin' house — has collaborated with a string of singers for his latest album...
“I love listening to a cool techno DJ, in a club, but if you go and see Swedish House Mafia DJ, for example, there’s no artistry involved. They are just getting behind the decks, with a finished CD, and pressing play then putting their hands in the air. This is something that is so wrong, because they get paid so much money for that.”
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In this week’s Fresh Kicks mix, Belfast’s very own Carlton Doom delivers a 60-minute archive of his own productions, in the form of intoxicating breaks...
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...
We remember some of the Berlin club's biggest news stories...
No club on earth goes deeper, longer or harder than Berlin’s Berghain. A true adult playground, the notorious former powerplant officially opened as a club...
This month Seth Troxler has been put in the hot seat...
Spending half an hour in the company of Seth Troxler’s sparking imagination is always an exhilarating ride. Buzzing with ideas, theories and analogies when we...
Sonar can't be beaten when it comes to mixing the banging with the experimental. For over 20 years the Barcelona festival has kept it real...
There are many contenders to the crown but only one king. When it comes to festivals, there's nothing else like Sonar — the Barcelona event...
A Brazilian club boasting about 20 years is not to be scoffed at...
Away from the fanfare of carnival, with its vibrant samba and tropical grooves, Brazil is a country where dance music plays second fiddle to rock...
Luke Solomon’s quirky house sound is as British as buttered toast, and equally tasty.
“I never latch on to one particular trend when it comes to music,” says Luke Solomon. We’re talking about the New Jersey house revival currently pumping energy bubbles into the British underground house scene. And the reason we’re talking about it is because old school New Jersey house, says Luke, is something he loved and lived through the first time round.
DJmag.com's Middle-Eastern correspondent Wajih Halawa reports on the region's growing dance scene, and from the area's most important clubs.
Sure, you probably know more about the Middle East from the sometimes graphic news broadcasts, but there is also a musically-oriented movement bubbling underneath in...
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In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, KMRU spotlights blissful synths, tactile guitars, streetscape sound design, indie rock and more
January’s Cheeky Bubblers...
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Morgan is the Australia-born, Barcelona-based selector that first came on to DJ Mag’s radar with her ‘The Queens EP’ on Sunday...
Meet Berlin's benevolent queen...
As a crusader for social justice, Germany’s Monika Kruse brings much more than techno to the global dancefloor. From Munich to Miami, her mission...
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I. JORDAN has stormed the electronic music world in the last couple of years with their energising productions and DJ mixes. Their 2020 breakthrough EP...
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Science fiction has long been a muse for techno producers, but three acts – Lost Souls Saturn, Mat Playford and A Sagittariun – are taking...
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With its high-energy beats, infectious dance routines and community ethos, Jersey club has become a global phenomenon. Tice Cin reports from New Jersey on some of the people pushing the sound forwards, the special moments they create, and their hopes for the future of the music