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Three decades of Trade: celebrating 30 years of boundary breaking LGBTQ+ raving

The fierce LGBTQ+ party Trade was the UK’s first legal after-hours club event, opening at 3am and closing at 9am. It laid the groundwork for a new on-and-on party culture, while its sexual and gender diversity was a forerunner for today’s queer club scene. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, and prepares for its 24-hour birthday party at Egg London, Joe Roberts speaks to some of its regular DJs, designers and founder Laurence Malice about Trade's boundary-breaking legacy

It’s Sunday afternoon, 16th March 2008, and the dancefloor of Turnmills is packed with dancers in varying states of undress. Watching over them, grinning maniacally...

Ikonika's back with a fresh electro-funk sound.

Far from retro, she's dragged us into a new digital dimension. We talk pop, reshaping history and optimistic futures with one of the world's most forward-thinking producers...

An in-depth talk with the Hyperdub main man about his new album with Spaceape, 'Black Sun'...

With their new album ‘Black Sun’, Hyperdub’s Kode9 & the Spaceape have left tired genre pigeonholes behind, switched up their sound and conjured a bright...

It took decades and many mutations for dance music to develop into the genres we know today. Here's what happened before DJ Mag was born...

“In the beginning there was Jack... and Jack had a groove!” So the old Mr Fingers track goes, but of course music made for dancing...

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The event will conclude with an all-female DJ takeover

The British Museum has teamed up with global arts collective and record label Psy-Sisters for a one-day event exploring the history of dance. Taking place...

Soichi Terada’s first new house music album in 25 years is a masterclass is mood-building, and a reminder of his power to move your soul...

Japanese producer Soichi Terada started making waves in 1989, producing pop singer Nami Shimada’s now-classic ‘Sun Shower’. His Far East Recordings label, meanwhile, launched with...

From: London via Burnham

For fans of: Madame X, Nina Las Vegas, Sherelle

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“It doesn’t come for free... we’re going to split whatever the cost is”

DJs who stream on Twitch may soon be required to share their earnings with record labels, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has revealed. Speaking in an...

Photo of three people sitting next to wall of sound systems at Notting Hill carnival

Opening this spring, the Beyond The Bassline exhibition will explore the people, spaces and genres that have defined the landscape of Black British music

A new major exhibition documenting 500 years of Black music in Britain is opening at the British Library. Running from 26th April to 26th August...

Left: 10 album packshots chosen by Nkisi. Right: Nkisi performing live, leaning over a table of electronic equipment while blowing on a digital wind instrument

In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Nkisi spotlights ritualistic acid rhythms, “electronic voodoo music”, Belgian new beat, EBM and more

Nkisi’s fiercely rhythmic music maps a route from ancient rituals to futuristic hard dance. In her live performances and catalogue of releases for labels like...

Album of the Month: Kode9 ‘Escapology’

On his new album based on a work of sonic fiction, Hyperdub founder Kode9 creates a strange, uncertain vision of the future, brimming with ideas and club genre mutations

There’s been a conceptual thread running through much of Steve Goodman’s output since he first adopted the Kode9 name. Though the Scottish artist’s DJ sets...

Pioneer. Visionary. Genius.  There can be no doubt that Jeff Mills is one of the most significant music producers of the modern age. From co-founding Underground...

The Wizard 

An alias that’s often used to describe Jeff Mills today (even though he officially dropped it a few years back), Mills first adopted...

15 must-catch acts for a diverse SXSW 2016 experience... 

South by Southwest has long served as a proving grounds for up-and-coming indie bands, but more recently the Austin-based music festival has attracted a...

Here, we outline some of the best beaches in Ibiza...

North/East
Aguas Blancas

Ibiza’s famous liberal spirit is well-represented on Aguas Blancas, a nudist beach that’s also rightly revered as being one of the island’s...

Don’t mind if we do...

And so the smiles begin, as soon as we touchdown and step out onto that notorious Balearic soil (well concrete actually, because no-one really steps...