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After reflecting on how we can tackle the issues within the electronic music industry as a publication, we deliver our pledge to you, presenting significant...

Read our latest update here. Since DJ Mag was founded in 1991, we’ve been devoted to covering dance music culture: first as a magazine, later...

A final decision on whether the club will reopen will be made on September 6th...

fabric made a statement today which said the venue wants to “lead the industry” and create a new gold standard in approaches to drugs and...

Houndstooth mainstay Aïsha Devi has caused shock and awe with her wild live shows and mind-boggling releases. Yet, as DJ Mag discovers, her experiments with sound...

Aïsha Devi’s stare burns onto her machines with the intensity of a laser. To her back, left and right, a flickering, kaleidoscopic series of visuals...

The DYCP grant budget has also increased to £18 million

Arts Council England has expanded its creativity grants to include DJs, sound engineers, lighting designers, and more.

As part of the continued funding schemes for...

"We require you to welcome this funding on your social media accounts"

Venues and arts organisations in the UK were ‘forced to thank the government’ publicly to receive the Culture Recovery Fund grant this week. 

A total...

The platform, formerly known as Black Bandcamp, relaunched on 5th May with a new website

Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has relaunched as a significantly expanded platform, with a number of new initiatives to help people search for, contact and directly...

FREE PLUGINS, SOUNDS AND ONLINE COURSES

Every term, final year students studying a BA (Hons) in Music Production and Sound Engineering Degree at Point Blank Music School are tasked with re-recording...

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

The progressive tech master explains his live setup...

One of melodic techno's most consistent artists, Rodriguez Jr has been making emotive dancefloor-friendly deep groovers ever since his debut album landed on Mobilee in...

Help Musicians UK have warned of a looming music industry crisis, and expect an “avalanche of applications” for support in the coming months

55% of professional musicians are earning no money due to COVID-19, according to new research from the charity Help Musicians UK. 

The organisation's study, which...

In the latest edition of our new series exploring the basics of music production, E.M.M.A. looks at the age old problem of getting stuck in...

Regular followers of this column will know we have already covered a few key foundations of production, from EQ to compression, creating space with reverb...

DJ Mag catches up with Egyptian artist Xander Ghost about A Better Feeling, his London-based label creating futuristic eyewear that’s designed with musicians in mind

IN 2018, DJ, producer and creative Xander Ghost wanted to throw four annual parties across the globe, all in unique locations, and each emblazoned with...

An exhilarating race through classic house, percussive techno and otherworldly electro from Brooklyn’s Bizaarbazaar founder, Bergsonist, as part of our Fresh Kicks series

As Bergsonist, Selwa Abd’s distinct artistic ethos has made her an essential figure in New York’s ever-changing, mercurial underground. As founder of multidisciplinary label Bizaarbazaar...

Wasted Heroes

In our most recent Brand Focus, DJ Mag's fashion editor, Amy Fielding, speaks with Liverpool-based graphic designer Russell Reid, who turned his life-long love of designing rave artwork and club culture into a clothing brand

In 2010, graphic designer Russell Reid had made a name for himself designing flyers for legendary Liverpool parties, like Circus and Chibuku. A key player...

We get to know Brighton's scratch king


Scratch DJ JFB is ill with the skillz “A lot of turntablists win competitions but never get DJ bookings because a lot of them don’t understand how to rock a party,” says mild-mannered Brighton-based British turntablist JFB, born to a French mum and a Hungarian dad.