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Roland’s 909 drum machine is responsible for the rhythm of house and techno, and countless classics of dance and pop. Exactly 35 years after its...

If there’s one instrument that faithfully captures the true spirit and essence of electronic music, it’s the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer: a machine that has...

In her latest Beginner's Guide, E.M.M.A. looks at getting creative with sampling

Like many topics in music production, ask the right person — or get cornered by the wrong person at a party — and the conversation...

The computer giant announced this week it's developing its own chips for all its hardware

Youth and popularity - the fabric that makes up today's music industry. Enter Madeon, he's young, he's popular. Yet, in our five-hour conversation with the...

In under 10 minutes of speaking to Hugo Leclercq, the man behind the construction known as Madeon, it is clear the musical phenom is, inarguably...

French duo Amine Edge & DANCE bring their G-House to the DJ Mag Miami party...

Amine Edge & DANCE are on a mission. Coming up from the not-so-mean streets of Marseilles, the production/DJ duo bonded as kids over a shared...

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His innovations can be heard on the music of artists including Prince, Herbie Hancock, and Stevie Wonder.

A new documentary explores the life and legacy of synth pioneer Tom Oberheim. Produced by GForce Software, the 37-minute film 'Bright Sparks: Tom Oberheim' delves...

Weighty as they come mix from dubstep pioneer Matt-U + Q&A

To celebrate the debut release of his new label, Bad Seed Audio, Matt-U has given us a brilliant exclusive mix full to bursting with his...

The best things in life are free – we round up powerful synth plugins that won’t cost you a thing...

There are hundreds, if not thousands of VSTs out there, all with different shapes, sounds and price tags. Luckily for those on a budget, there...

DJ Mag chats to James Ford about making the new LP, aliens, cowboy ghost towns, destruction and drones...

When the Klaxons joked that their producer, James Ford, communicated with aliens through his hair, they weren’t only paying tribute to his curly black locks...

Point Blank Tutorial: Spitfire Audio’s Cairo Breaks Down His Trailer for GAIKA’s Sound Pack War Island

In this tutorial, Cairo shows how he scored the trailer for the Spitfire Audio and GAIKA sound library, War Island. War Island features GAIKA‘s signature...

They’re next-level DJs, VJs, label owners, sample freaks, activists, punky instigators and pioneering software developers, and DJ Mag is awarding them the Outstanding Contribution gong...

 

Coldcut are true innovators. To do justice to their history would take a whole book, but in a nutshell the world of electronic music...

Akai’s APC20 hardware controller proves less is more...

Ever since Ableton became popular with the masses and started to pop up in cooler studios and DJ boxes across the planet, the arms race...

When the Covid-19 pandemic cleared Dutch producer, DJ and label boss Martyn’s diary, he turned his attention to others: starting his own mentoring programme for...

Martyn has spent the last 25 years making electronic music, but the Dutch artist still remembers his earliest days keenly. “I started in drum &...

DJmag is swallowed into the audible vortex that is the new Kaoss pad 3 and pulled out the whole with some frontline reports from Product.01

When the original KP (Kaoss Pad) landed it split the music tech world in two, some saw it as a mere toy, while others embraced...

New main room hero Deniz Koyu favoured by all the big boys

Rising star Deniz Koyu was born in Germany to Turkish parents, but now lives in Holland where he works closely with dirty Dutch star Fedde...