The origins of DiY Sound System date back to a mid-‘80s England that was a very different place to how it is in 2022. In...
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Built on Bass, DiY values and homegrown talent, Sheffield's eclectic parties are smasing it up.<BR>
The antithesis of shiny, characterless superclubs, generic music policies, and door prices that empty your week’s budget in one hit, the secretive and sporadic KABAL...
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Throughout the ’90s, the DiY Sound System put on countless free events, ran a recording studio and two record labels, and took their hedonistic parties around the world. Here, Harold Heath speaks to co-founder Harry Harrison about his new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The Story of the DiY Sound System, and the collective's trailblazing legacy in the free party movement
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Get acquainted with Elle Shimada, the Tokyo-born, Melbourne-based artist exploring the meaning of home with luminous electronic beats and shimmering vocals
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The respected journalist was last seen Friday in one of the country's most remote regions
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Get acquainted with Tapefeed, the London-based Italian duo creating techno with a message
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Get acquainted with Leeds-based DJ, sound artist, radio host and activist, Sayang
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Luciano is an Ibiza icon. Witnessing the rise and fall of genres, nights, clubs and careers, his own resident sets at DC-10 and Vagabundos parties at Pacha...
What’s the concept behind DYSTOPIA?
Luciano: “It started after a long relationship with a group of people on the island. Eighteen, seventeen years ago, a...
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Independent record labels are thriving by adapting to new models and branching out into management, distribution, publishing and clothing. DJ Mag finds out more...
If there’s any sector in dance music that has had to be genuinely run ‘for the love’ and ferociously adapt to survive the music industry’s...
The Labour Party's Shadow Business Secretary is also a sometime house/garage DJ too...
Chuka Umunna is one of the highest profile young politicians in the UK. But did you know that he's also a part-time DJ, these days...
Charlie and Eli from Soul Clap have been let loose on the back catalogue of seminal garage label Nice N' Ripe
In the summer of 1996, when Eli Goldstein was 14, he discovered something that would quite literally change the course of his life. Was it...
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With a punk attitude, impressive live shows, and an ever-shifting psychedelic yet dancefloor-friendly sound, Red Axes have brought a breath of fresh air to the...
"When the sun is shining, life can be really dark,” says Dori Sadovnik, one half of Israeli gothic dance duo Red Axes. He’s talking about the...
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Sheffield's Cabaret Voltaire were way, way ahead of their time.
Neil Kulkarni talks to founder Richard H Kirk about apathy, necessity and house music...
DJ Mag heads to the Italian birthplace of Marco Carola and Joseph Capriati to pick up the local thread, with Luigi Madonna and his crew
"For us it was... where everything started from. It was in the middle of mountains, so you have that view from the stage. The first time they did a...
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With Britain’s Indian summer turning out to be more like the Asian monsoon season, there’s a sense of trepidation as we get out of the...
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A longstanding DJ, curator and booking agent, Lerato Khati AKA Lakuti has been an essential figure of the global underground for over two decades now. We...
A longstanding DJ, curator and booking agent, Lerato Khati AKA Lakuti has been an essential figure of the global underground for over two decades now...