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The legendary complex is said to be “wholly unsuitable for the 21st century”...

The BBC is set to close down its iconic Maida Vale Studios as the broadcaster prepares to relocate to East London.

In a staff-wide email...

Dorothy maps out innovators to a Theremin circuit...

At the beginning of the year we were drooling over Dorothy’s iconic prints of the Haçienda, London’s Astoria and more, and now the company has just...

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths & The Legendary Tapes will premiere as part of London Film Festival

A new feature length film about electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire will premiere online next week as part of the BFI London Film Festival. 

Delia...

Featuring more than 100 tape and synth composers from the 1950s and 60s

A book on pioneering British electronic musicians is set to go into reprint, 'Tape Leaders: A Compendium of Early British Electronic Music’. 

First published in...

Band to play Go!Zilla birthday

Hugely popular underground club Go!Zilla celebrate their third birthday this Saturday 26th July at London's Cargo, and to make the party swing in fine style...

The EMS founder built instruments used by Kraftwerk, Soulwax, David Bowie and more

The synthesiser pioneer Peter Zinovieff has died, aged 88. According to a report in The Guardian, the Russian-British founder of benchmark-setting brand EMS suffered...

The creepy synth sounds of horror movie soundtracks by Goblin, Fabio Frizzi and John Carpenter have proven hugely influential on modern electronic music. DJ Mag...

But whilst these cheap horror films with their copious sex and violence might not have brought about the nation’s moral decay, they have wormed their...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From found sound turntablism, techno and two-step to experimental soul and glossy...

Albeit fresh to the DJing world — having been behind the decks for just over a year — SORAYA is making an impact within the...

Album covers from electronic music film soundtracks

Exploring the history of cinema, Martin Guttridge-Hewitt compiles 11 landmark electronic music movie soundtracks, arranged in chronological order, each of which earned its place on sonic merit, and significance in the canon of music and movies

When Bebe and Louis Barron presented their music for Forbidden Planet, Fred Wilcox's 1956 adaptation of The Tempest, the sounds were so alien, even compared...

Techno rises in the heart of the Midwest and with it, a bold call to action.

 

DJ Mag meets Lisa Smith on a winter afternoon in The Black Madonna’s crowded Chicago apartment. A large film crew is staging lighting...

While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...

Whether celebrating individuals and movements that helped shaped where dance music culture is today, or commemorating everything coronavirus took from us in spring 2020, the...

The contribution of women throughout the history of electronic music has been huge, but too often undocumented...

By now the history of electronic music and its journey into clubs, concert venues, stadiums and homes worldwide is a well-established narrative. It’s a story...

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...

The flamboyant electronic sound of San Francisco’s dancefloors soundtracked gay liberation in the '70s and '80s, even as its community faced decimation as a result...

Deep in the vaults of the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society and Museum Archives, a modest wooden crate glows with the importance of a sacred...