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Ben Cardew revisits the rich sampling and undiluted fun of the Beasties’ cult classic second album

'Paul's Boutique', Beastie Boys’ second album, is the sound of unrestrained musical joy; an adventure playground bouncy castle fart-joke of a record where boundary-pushing, world-building...

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While there are no shortcuts when it comes to a great mix, the modern production environments have certainly made it easier for us to make...

Drum & bass duo zoom straight to the top of the charts

The UK drum & bass scene was celebrating last night with the news that scene stalwarts Sigma had shot to the top of the UK...

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With a CV of production spanning legends and newcomers alike from the UK and the US, Nat Powers is deservedly viewed within the top tier...

DJ W!LD's top 10 most influential tracks

Brought up on disco, funk and hip-hop in Dijon in eastern France, DJ W!ld took his name from the seminal 1983 hip-hop documentary Wild Style...

Ibiza Rocks is responsible for breaking some of the most exciting young bands to the island and now they're offering one genre-mashing DJ the chance...

Ibiza Rocks is responsible for breaking some of the most exciting young bands to the island and now they're offering one genre-mashing DJ the chance...

Suspended from a space net above an icy ravine in New Zealand, Modestep perform their most adventurous show to date...

The sixth annual Jägermeister Ice Cold Gig saw Modestep perform on a space net suspended from a freezing New Zealand peak over an icy ravine...

Gold stylus

Coming in at a cool €10,000

Audio-Technica has launched a gold cartridge with a diamond stylus to mark its 60th anniversary. The limited-edition AT-MC2022 features a unified stylus-cantilever crafted from a...

The crown was worn and signed by the rapper during a 1997 photoshoot three days before his death

The iconic crown worn by the Notorious B.I.G. in a 1997 photoshoot is one of the main items being put up for sale at the...

When it was released in 1995, ‘Boulevard’ consummated the union between house music and jazz, whilst clearing the path for a wave of French house...

‘Boulevard’, the 1995 debut album from Parisian producer Ludovic Navarre — aka St Germain — was by no means the first time jazz had mixed with house. Larry...

 

DJ Shadow's debut album, 'Endtroducing.....', released via UK label Mo'Wax Records in 1996, presented abstract, instrumental hip hop as a worthy deviation from the...

Mo’Wax was undoubtedly one of the most important British record labels of the 1990s, showcasing a kind of retro futuristic approach to art, where aesthetic...

DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this month's edition, to mark...

‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’ was the creation of the fevered imagination and unique musical mind of Richard D James, an artist who’s gone under a...

Rupert Parkes’ razor-sharp 1997 debut remains one of the crowning achievements of drum & bass. DJ Mag explores how this groundbreaking album used intricate programming...

For the last two decades, many drum & bass producers have been obsessed with being the loudest. But for a brief, glorious moment in the...

DJ Mag’s Solid Gold series revisists and examines the ongoing significance and influence of inspiring electronic albums throughout history. In our latest edition, DJ Mag’s...

By the time James Murphy made it to the studio to record LCD Soundsystem’s second album, he’d already been a live sound engineer, a bouncer...

Released 20 years ago, Basement Jaxx's 'Rooty' is a paean to the adaptable power of house music, a ferocious mixture of musical styles kept in...

‘Rooty’, Basement Jaxx’s second album, was the moment when the London duo conquered pop in the name of UK house music; the apex of the...