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From the tragic loss of punk-rave pioneer Keith Flint to a resurgence in the sense of community in dance music, this year, and indeed the...

2019 has been a year, hasn’t it? With the seemingly inescapable doom and gloom of the world, political tensions and the increasing urgency of saving...

He’s spent the last seven years honing an undeniable sound. Now Tchami will unveil his first full-length album, ‘Year Zero’

The collar that Martin Joseph Léonard Bresso dons while performing on stage as Tchami is a meaningful accessory. It is symbolic of the spirituality he’s...

Dutch electro team Showtek have created this month's killer new DJ Mag download card

Gordon Phillips is the big cheese, top dog, club impresario behind the success story of BCM, also known as Planet Dance, on the Balearic isle...

Plus free download of 'Live On Cubism 2'

With a new member in the family and the second instalment of his 'Cubism Live' series now available as a free download on our Soundcloud, we phoned Saytek for a chat...



Whole Fest

This year’s Whole Festival marked the biggest underground electronic music-focused queer festival on the planet, bringing together LGBTQ+ collectives, artists and ravers from around the globe. Marke Bieschke heads to Germany to find out how Whole has created a world of its own

In its fourth incarnation, delayed two years due to the pandemic, this year’s Whole: United Queer Festival is the hot ticket for LGBTQ+ folks from...

Sound Factory legend talks voguing, Madonna and his European tour

Across Paris, London and New York, the sound of ballroom is again infiltrating every area of dance music, from Vaggio's 'Don't You Want Some More'...

 

T2 was only 18 when he dropped ‘Heartbroken’: a sweet, infectious bassline tune that rocketed to No. 2 in the charts in 2007. Owing...

In early 2007, far away from the gaze of the London-based music media, a song by a cult local producer began to spread like wildfire...

Jaye Ward, Honey Dijon, JD Samson, Mandidextrous and DJ Sprinkles talk gender identity, safe spaces, privilege and the power of the internet...

Words: JOE ROBERTS // Pics: JEF McMAHAN, COMATONSE RECORDINGS

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“Trans is so hot right now,” chuckles Jaye Ward, the Hackney-based DJ whose lineage of...

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Ria Hylton reports on some of the best performances from this year’s EXIT festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, including ANNA b2b Sama’ Abdulhadi, Denis Sulta, Budino, Honey Dijon and Jamiie b2b Kristin Velvet

The way into Serbia’s EXIT Festival is unlike any other. Every year, tens of thousands cross the Danube — Europe’s second largest river, running from...

Our annual Top 100 Clubs poll is back for another year. DJ Mag readers from around the world voted in their droves for their favourite...

When we announced the results of our annual Top 100 Clubs poll last year, much of the world was just going into lockdown for the...

Ralph Lawson's Leeds house music institution 2020 Vision celebrates 20 momentous years...

Leeds house music institution 2020 Vision celebrates 20 momentous years in 2014. Here, label boss Ralph Lawson remembers two decades of one of the UK's...

Miami's underground venues

We're all aware of the glitz and glamour of South Beach's many venues, but scratch beneath the surface of the Miami scene and you'll find a plethora of underground dens of iniquity at your disposal. Uptown, Downtown, turn the beat around! These are the coolest, off-the-radar spots worth popping into during WMC...

From back-to-back travel and navigating unknown places, to the thrill of peak time raving and the low of the next day, touring DJs lead lives...

I was booked to play at Beat Hotel in Glastonbury. I was really, really excited; I’d played Glastonbury before, but it was for smaller, little...

Black Science Orchestra’s Trammps-sampling, Frankie Knuckles approved 1992 cut ‘Where Were You?’ marked a key moment in UK house music, and embodied a sound that...

Black Science Orchestra founder Ashley Beedle mulls over last year’s activity and bursts into laughter: “I went to the doctor to get my COVID jab...

DJ Mag heads to Ghana to explore a rapidly expanding, festival- driven scene that, while rooted on pop and traditional sounds, is beginning to open...

March is an important month in Ghana’s calendar; it’s when the West African country celebrates gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1957. The month...