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Palestinian DJ Nour launches Kickstarter for Refugee Chronicles Nakba Interactive Map Project

The videographer wants to preserve the histories of the Nakba of 1948 refugees: “As the last generation of Nakba survivors, my mission is to keep their stories alive”

Palestinian DJ and videographer Nour is documenting the stories of refugees of the Nakba of 1948 and fundraising to build an interactive archival website to...

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Let The Music Play: How R&B Fell In Love With 80s Synths explores work by Prince, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and more

A new book, set to be published in February, will explore the impact that synths and various forms of music technology had on the development...

Joyce Sims, R&B singer-songwriter, dies, aged 63

The New York artist was best known for her 1987 hit single, 'Come Into My Life'

American R&B singer-songwriter Joyce Sims has died, aged 63. The artist, who hailed from Rochester in New York, was best known for her hit single...

I.JORDAN drops new single, ‘Always Been / First Time Back’, on Ninja Tune: Listen

It’s the first in a series of two-trackers to come from the artist in the coming months

I.JORDAN has released a new double single, ‘Always Been / First Time Back’ on Ninja Tune. Listen to both tracks below. It marks the DJ...

Premiere: Alexis ‘ethereal skies’

London DJ and producer Alexis serves up a “groovy and glitchy slow burner” for femme culture’s ‘HeForShe Vol.4’ compilation

London-based DIY collective and label femme culture will release their new charity compilation, ‘HeForShe Vol.4’, in aid of UN Women, this month. Hear London DJ...

DIY Collective

The DiY Collective were one of the first house sound systems in the UK

A new book celebrating the history of '90s UK rave sound system, DiY Collective, is set to be published in March. Dreaming in Yellow, penned...

Get acquainted with the 19-year-old MC taking UK drill by storm

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In this excerpt from Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music, author and DJ Mag contributing editor Ben Murphy explores the use of found sounds in dance music as a means of examining and expressing cultural heritage in our surroundings

At its most cutting edge, dance music is a laboratory of sonic experimentation. Field recordings, foley and samples from the real world have long been...

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Night Time Industries Association’s Alan Miller endorses London Mayor’s suggestion of a clubbing representative in open letter.

If 2014 felt like an annus mirabilis for UK’s clubbing scene, than 2015 might be a year marked by the tentative beginnings of some positive...

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Stormzy

 “Album 3. Coming 2022.” 

Stormzy has revealed that his third studio album is coming later this year. The news was unveiled during a live gig in Cardiff last night...

DJ Mag spoke to two of the scene’s icons about their takes on the scene in 2013, their manifold future plans, and the enduring spirit...

When DJ Mag enters a disused pub in south-east London’s Rotherhithe, we find LTJ Bukem has arrived early and is waiting patiently for us on a sofa in the pub’s old bar area. A true originator of drum & bass, Bukem, aka Danny Williamson, then throws himself into his part of the photo-shoot in a small, sparsely-lit room, which, much to everyone’s amusement, was once the gents’ toilets in the now-converted boozer.

DJ Mag talk tunes, gigs and birthdays with the d&b duo.

2013 marks a special year for the London drum & bass and dubstep duo Chase & Status. Celebrating their 10th anniversary, the production couple of Saul Milton (Chase) and Will Kennard (Status) have delivered a sound that dips into breaks, hip-hop, dubstep, d&b and jungle since their first release ‘Like This’ on Vehicle Records in 2003.

Hot Natured have already dented the UK charts and sold out Brixton Academy in their first appearance as a live act. Now, with their debut...

Following the 20-year cycle of cultural revival, it's not just '90s fashions and sample libraries that have come back around onto dancefloors. Buoyed by America’s repackaging of dance music as EDM and pop’s perpetual shapeshifting, house music is finally back at the top of the charts.