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After ten years and more than 100 releases from the likes of Raime, Regis and Vatican Shadow... 

Blackest Ever Black is to shut down with a final label compilation. 

The imprint, based in London, was founded by Kiran Sande in 2010 and...

Noir headlines Potty Mouth party on 4th February

If you haven’t heard the Solomun mix of Noir and Haze’s ‘Around’ then you haven’t really been getting out enough have you...

Richie Blacker

​​DJ Mag heads to Belfast to take a tour around the hometown of rising DJ/producer Richie Blacker, whose music has appeared on labels like Skream's Of Unsound Mind and Anjunadeep

White Dragon Tattoo sits on Botanic Avenue in south Belfast, home to the renowned tattoo artist Chris Crooks, and where Richie Blacker has a studio...

It's landing at Second Home...

Back for the second time on Saturday 19th November, Take Note London — the education music conference hosted at co-work space Second Home in Shoreditch...

Gobstopper Records head, Mr. Mitch, discusses Black experiences, the white gaze and his decisions as a label boss

My name is Mr. Mitch, I am Black, I am an artist, and for the past 10 years I have also been running the label...

The latest reworking of the dance music archive?

Two decades after they first inspired the establishment to try and legislate against dance music, the breakbeats that fuelled jungle and hardcore have found new life at the hands of producers who were in nappies when 'Terminator' was first released. But what’s behind this latest reworking of the dance music archive?

A futuristic way to keep cool at one of the world’s hottest festivals...

A new campaign has been launched to create a shaded area at Burning Man this year using a massive NASA space blanket.

The project, which...

It may not be the flashiest entry in Felix Da Houscat’s discography, but this 1994 LP is one of his best. In the latest edition...

From teenage musical prodigy to P. Diddy aide, from psychedelic techno innovator to electroclash star, Felix Da Housecat is one of the most intriguingly undefinable...

October is Black History Month in the UK. Ria Hylton spotlights a range of electronic music-related events on and offline taking place throughout the month...

Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) will host its first in-person event at Hackney Wick’s Colour Factory. Set for Friday 1st October, B.A.D. Presents... includes a stellar...

NikNak Sankofa

The Leeds-based DJ and producer is also embarking on a UK tour

NikNak has announced a new album, 'Sankofa', which will be released on 1st July. Billed as an "immersive turntablism-produced" record, the Leeds-based artist's latest outing...

FN Meka

The major label has issued a statement offering its “deepest apologies to the Black community”

Capitol Records has severed ties with the "AI rapper" FN Meka amid backlash over racial stereotyping. The major label announced the signing earlier this month...

The summer of 2021 has seen a perfect storm of drug-related risks hit the UK dance scene: from an abundance of first-time ravers who turned...

Ever since the birth of acid house in the late ‘80s, UK dance music has been defined, legislated against and demonised on the basis of...

Ben Cardew looks back at how Louie Vega and Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez’s rapturous 1997 homage to their musical roots

Two decades before Daft Punk rolled back the technological years on ‘Random Access Memories’, another iconic house duo went back to their roots. Kenny “Dope”...

"Tolerance, diversity, and social justice have always been at the core of our global DJ and electronic music community."

Beatport will donate all proceeds taken on Tuesday 2nd June to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).

Sharing a statement via...

Mr Benn has the ultimate summer recipe

When Mr Benn leaves his house at 52 Festive Road, possibly wearing a black suit and bowler hat, he enters his studio via a magic door. But how does he decide which outfit supplied by a shopkeeper he is going to try on today? “It depends what I have planned for the studio that day,”