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London Pleasure Gardens unveiled

June's jubilee celebrations set new party precedents across the board. While the bunting and union jacks may have come down (much like the sore heads...

Listen closely – there's something rumbling in the streets of Glasgow...

A new sound is bubbling to the surface in the Scottish city, emerging from the underground and taking all the hipsters, hustlers and new sonic...

Here's the up-and-comers we've got our eye on...

Theo Kottis
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If you haven't seen Theo Kottis' name about town yet, it won't be long until you do. Picked for Groovefest...

Blurred photo of Bamao Yendé wearing a white frilled jacket and black sunglasses

Bamao Yendé fuses sentimental R&B with bass, garage and afrobeats influences on a new hip-swinging suite for Boukan Records

Bamao Yendé will release a new EP, ‘Polizia Romantico’, later this month. Have an exclusive first listen to ‘Tornado 360’ below. On the heels of...

10 most memorable career highlights from Nick van de Wall

Multi-platinum selling producer, DJ to tens of thousands every week and EDM figurehead: Afrojack is undeniably one of global dance music’s biggest names. He cut...

Shedding the light on Adam Shelton's bar

We're all aware of UK clubland's biggest churches. The Ministries, Fabrics and Sankeys, where we find ourselves throwing shapes each weekend – our eyes saucers, faces a contorted mess.

Cocoon In The Park, Strange Places, Kallida... 

Just when you thought you’d escaped the portaloo, they pull you back in, with almost all July 2019’s top UK events void of plumbing. Not...

Inside the UK Afro house renaissance

The Afro house sound is an ever-growing presence in UK dance music, with new labels, club-nights and a dedicated radio station springing up. Alongside a mix from Mr Silk, Ria Hylton explores the sound’s history, and speaks to some of the scene’s key players about forging strong connections with their growing audiences, and their aim to nurture a unique UK Afro house identity

Afro house is steeped in the percussive materials of South Africa’s townships. For decades, its polyrhythms played out on traditional African instruments — bongos, congas...

As a way of supporting the artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, we've launched a weekly roundup of the most vital Bandcamp releases...

The pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has had a devastating impact on our scene, leading to the cancellation of countless club nights and festivals...

Hardwell’s first entry from his Revealed Tour with Dannic and Dyro

DJ Mag ensures you don’t miss a moment of Revealed on Tour starring Hardwell, Dannic and Dyro with you up-to-date front and backstage antics, mixes...

Exclusive tour diary

Despite his history — a resident at Rex Club since '97, the boss of Bass Culture and a producer of the deep house elite in...

With tracks like ‘That’s The Way Love Is’ and ‘Right Back To You,’ Ten City’s 1989 debut album, ‘Foundation,’ set the standard for what vocal...

If songwriting and arrangement were as valued as sonic innovation in the history of dance music, then Chicago vocal house group Ten City would be...

The UK's essential nights out

Novembers top club nights

 

 

Charlotte de Witte has shot into techno’s upper echelons since assuming her real name for her productions and DJ slots. Initially using the male-sounding alias...

 

It’s 2017 and techno is bigger than ever. It’s a statement that could, of course, be applied to dance music overall, but this year...

DJ Mag’s annual Best of North American Awards poll gives our readers the opportunity to show their love to their favorite DJs, producers, labels, clubs...

Richie Hawtin is one of the most pioneering artists in electronic music, and a true proponent of techno’s future-focused ideology. As the winner of DJ...