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Pretty much everything is on offer, from the best under-the-radar labels to the biggest brands in EDM today. Whether it's the coolest, most hip sounds making waves in the industry right now or the glitz and glamour of big room arenas you're after, it's all here for you to get stuck into. So, apply some spectacles and brew up a cuppa; it's time to make some party plans...

As we enter a new decade, the ways in which we define electronic music styles are rapidly changing. Chal Ravens explores the etymological evolution of...

Bickering over genre definitions is a time-honoured tradition in dance music. One of the weirder etymological developments of recent years is the changing meaning of...

Batu press shot surrounded by purple flowers

Timedance label boss, innovative producer and a boundary-pushing DJ, Batu was on an upward trajectory — but the pandemic made him question his motivations and examine his history. With his debut album ‘Opal’ marking a bold new chapter in his sound, he talks to Chal Ravens about burnout, reinvention, heritage and contributing to the Bristol scene that nurtured him

On a cool night in upstate New York in September 2019, the floorboards of a wooden hut at Camp Kennybrook are shuddering with bass. Somewhere...

DJ Mag Ibiza joined the pair at their Ibiza villa...

 

Often derided by electronic music purists as little more than disposable pop, EDM is the love-it-or-loathe sound that’s got the whole music industry talking...

In this regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp...

Clubs around the world are shut, and opportunities to find new music out in the wild have been ripped from under our feet as a...

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...

Using data from voting in this year’s global Top 100 DJs poll with a genre filter based on insights and data from Beatport, we present...

This is the fourth year that DJ Mag has presented the Alternative Top 100 DJs list in association with Beatport. In 2021, the genres included...

A press shot of Flume in a striped jumper, holding a bunch of white flowers against an orange backdrop

Caught between the demands of being an internationally-renowned performer and his desire for a quiet life, Australian producer Flume found balance upon returning to his homeland. Amongst nature, and with a restored sense of wellbeing, he completed his most ambitious album to date, 'Palaces'. Megan Venzin learns its story

Flume fills arenas, smashes stage props with sledgehammers, and builds booming soundscapes with the high-tech gear that fills his ever-expanding studio. Harley Edward Streten, on...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From haunting experimental sound design and rare funk to lush drum &...

Ultra Naté’s house anthem ‘Free’ went from club anthem to international pop hit in the late 1990s. Broken by Louie Vega at the 1997 WMC...

It's precisely 9am in Baltimore. Ultra Naté — her real name — is raring to go. “It's not super-early,” says the super-professional 53 year old...

Gal Costa, Brazilian music icon, dies aged 77

A central figure in the groundbreaking Tropicália movement and Grammy-winner responsible for 33 studio albums

Gal Costa, an icon of Brazilian popular music, has died at the age of 77. The sad news was confirmed on Wednesday 9th November by...

The latest version of the popular DJ software makes bold claims around stem separation. But does it actually work?

While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...

Whether celebrating individuals and movements that helped shaped where dance music culture is today, or commemorating everything coronavirus took from us in spring 2020, the...

Worldwide FM and Gilles Peterson launch grassroots music funding initiative

Studio Monkey Shoulder will put a £10,000 investment into one community project

Gilles Peterson and Worldwide FM have partnered with Monkey Shoulder Whiskey to set up a new music initiative which is designed to empower and celebrate...

Photo of ANOTR floating in air against a sunset background while reading DJ Mag’s March cover issue

Dutch duo ANOTR have amassed a huge audience with their emotional house music and incredible club events centred around art and human connection. Ahead of their appearance in Miami at the DJ Mag pool party, they tell Amy Fielding how risk-taking, open-mindedness and collaboration are at the heart of everything they do

ANOTR are all about emotions. Enhancing them, recalling them, changing them, understanding them. Everything the Dutch duo do is intentional, produced to share how they’re...