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This new 96-page book, Beyond Heaven: Chicago House Party Flyers From 1983-1989, documents the rise of Chicago house...
This new 96-page book, Beyond Heaven: Chicago House Party Flyers From 1983-1989, documents the rise of Chicago house using classic posters and artwork from the pioneering parties that paved the way for the scene we know and love today...
WORDS: Kirsty Allison
We Have Voice Collective, female:pressure and others are working tirelessly to end sexual discrimination and harassment in dance music...
Sexual harassment is a widespread problem that remains prevalent in our supposedly progressive dance music scene. A number of new initiatives have proposed a solution: a Code Of Conduct to combat abusive behaviour on the dancefloor and in the workplace. DJ Mag spoke to key figures from the project and a number of other companies taking steps towards positive change...
Words: CHANDLER SHORTLIDGE
Pics: HEATHER STEN, SARAH KOURY, BARRON, CLAIBORNE & MICHEAL BREYER
We step inside the opulent world of Studio 54...
DJ Mag’s books and film editor Kirsty Allison meets up with the minds behind a new documentary on New York’s most famous nightclub, Studio 54...
With Miller Genuine Draft...
Investigating the benefit of the humble cassette tape's triumphant comeback...
Cassettes are more popular than they’ve been for years, opening up countless doors for dance music fans, producers and DJs. DJ Mag finds out why the humble cassette tape is in the midst of one hell of a comeback...
We meet disco legend and songwriting extraordinaire Nile Rodgers for our September UK cover...
Nile Rodgers is the man behind Chic and countless disco classics and mega hits. Always moving with the times and updating his classic guitar licks and grooves for new generations, he’s about to release a long- awaited new album filled with modern collaborators. DJ Mag met Nile to talk about staying current, the significance of the disco movement, and why he continues to do what he does so well...
WORDS: Declan McGlynn
PICS: Dan Reid
We meet Orbital to talk their new LP, live performance and what it's like to be 30 years deep in the dance music biz...
After almost 30 years — minus a couple of splits — operating as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll are back with their first studio album in six years (and ninth in total), ‘Monsters Exist’. DJ Mag tracks the brothers down in their beloved Brighton to chat their new LP, sibling bickering and sending a message through music...
The first season's story so far...
Ushuaïa Ibiza's Dystopia has been one of the White Island's most successful newcomers, and not without very good reason...
Black Coffee fronts DJ Mag UK's August cover...
Without bluster or overblown hype, Black Coffee has doggedly worked himself into the position of being not just South Africa’s foremost electronic music artist, but one of the biggest playas on the planet. DJ Mag meets the mild-mannered gentleman in Ibiza — the location of his high-profile weekly residency at Hï — to talk philanthropy, overcoming adversity, and working with megastars such as Drake and David Guetta...
It tells the visual story of his whirlwind career...