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Dance music's renaissance man graces the cover of DJ Mag USA...

From new ventures in live performance to reunions with Digweed, fresh collaborations to the birth of a baby, the godfather of progressive is busy building...

Beardyman to capture and curate a symphony

In one of his most ambitious works to date, renowned musician and beatboxer, Beardyman, will bring the ‘Sounds of the 21st Century’ to life in the form of a digital electronic symphony played live at Campus Party, Europe’s biggest technology festival.

The pot begins to Perc

UK techno dude Perc, aka Ali Wells, had a momentous first clubbing experience while still at school, he tells DJ Mag. “I borrowed one of...

FREE PLUGINS, SOUNDS AND ONLINE COURSES

Point Blank are back with a brand new tutorial series to help you get the most out of your productions. In this series, course developer...

Legislation will come into effect in January 2018...

Amsterdam's local authorities will impose tight noise restrictions on electronic music festivals within the city centre, it has been revealed today.

The new bill is...

Soundsystem artwork 1

Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future 

It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...

Just one example of the Fake Documentary Realism that guided production techniques

In order to achieve the highest level of realism and authenticity, a sound engineer opted to "swallow" a microphone in a bid to help perfect...

Bristol’s Livity Sound label has crafted a distinctive style and sonic blueprint, drawing from dub techniques but impossible to categorise. Celebrating a decade in existence...

In 2011, the dust from the dubstep explosion was still up in the air. The initial UK wave had split between a formulaic festival sound...

Jamie Jones

After eight seasons at DC-10 in Ibiza and two lost to the pandemic, Jamie Jones makes his grand return to Ibiza this summer, and is moving his flagship party, Paradise, to Amnesia Ibiza. For his DJ Mag cover feature, Anna Wall speaks to the Hot Creations boss about coming up in the East London after-hours scene, mentorship, and becoming a dad

It was a humid summer night in June on the white isle back in 2005. Jamie Jones had just returned from Barcelona’s annual Sonar festival...

The Norwegian duo talk us through their million-selling debut LP for Wall Of Sound

How a largely instrumental album by an unknown Norwegian duo became a word-of-mouth million-selling sensation at the start of the decade, thanks to some unique...

Point Blank course developer & instructor Chris Carter demonstrates using LFOs in sound design

Point Blank are back with a brand new tutorial series to...

auntiefo

The app is created to "entrain the body and mind to quiet and calm"

Auntie Flo has launched a new sound and music wellness platform. The Scottish DJ, producer and sound artist, real name Brian D'Souza, spent lockdown training...

Sio by Ray Manzana

Kitty Amor speaks to South African singer-songwriter Sio about her new album, 'Torn Tapestries', on STY TRU BTS and her journey to poetic house music majesty

A singer-songwriter who barely knew her own talent, over the past decade, Sio has become the voice for the voiceless. Having received Apple Music’s Album...

Noooooo...

Amsterdam's City Council are considering imposing sound restrictions on festivals within Amsterdam city centre, it has been reported.

If the policy passes, festivals would...

Mars

Listen to the noises captured by the Mars Perseverance rover 

A NASA recording has revealed that Mars has two speeds of sound. The audio was recorded using microphones on the car-sized Mars Perseverance rover –...