Yant will release a new EP, ‘Broken Strings’, via Neighbourhood later this week. Have an exclusive first listen to ‘The Stunter’ below. Coming off the...
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Mr G launches new label
Acid house master Mr G, aka Colin Mcbean, has launched a brand new imprint: Proof Records. The DJ/producer's plethora of cuts released on...
Should DJs who have never taken illegal drugs be banned from the decks?
Dance music used to be all about getting off your chops to some amazing futuristic electronic sounds. The DJs would get as fucked up as...
At what point did remixing mainstream pop rubbish become acceptable?
Don't get DJ Mag wrong, there's been a long tradition of the remix as a credibility boost in the music industry. Back in the day, from the late '80s and the first crossover of house music onwards, dire popstrels of the ilk of Simply Red and the Spice Girls (or rather their record companies) would be queuing up for a taste of authentic dance flavour, getting cool names to remix their tracks in order to boost sales of 12”s.
Loud, proud and out there, Skullcandy’s range of headphones are an acquired taste — but are they sweet or sour?
Let's face it, Skullcandy don’t do anything by halves. Their headphone range is right in your face, and with this marketing approach they have definitely captured that Marmite feeling — you either love them or hate them, and that’s before using them in a clubbing DJ environment.
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Manchester-based producer Yant debuts on Neighbourhood with four slabs of intrepid and propulsive techno with acid flourishes. Hear the big-room-ready rumble of ‘The Stunter’ now
Resident DJs are RETURNING to clubland apparently. As if they ever left...
All this guff about the return of the resident... pah! Are you kidding me? Big clubs drafting in an already established marquee DJ for a...
Time for a history lesson
Memory is a crazy thing. Psychology suggests that huge chunks of our memory are false constructs, whopping great brain porkies designed to bolster up whatever zany truths we’ve decided to believe about the world. Say, for example, that you think of yourself as a virile, dancefloor dominating master of the decks, a near mythical hybrid of Julio Bashmore, Sasha and Larry Levan.
Plastikman, 2ManyDJs and Duran Duran head big island line-up!
Music television channel MTV has just announced that it’s hosting a series of spectacular events in Ibiza over the summer, with a program combining some...
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DJ and producer Adryiano returns to Shall Not Fade with another EP two years after making his debut. Hear the disco sentiments and hat-heavy groove...
Adryiano will drop a new EP later this month.
Following his 2018 EPs 'Nite Talk' and 'Dreams With', as well as a contribution to last...
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The ban could affect those visiting the city for ADE, Drumcode Festival, Dekmantel and Awakenings...
Amsterdam officials are fighting to ban Airbnb and increase tourist taxes, among other things, in the popular Western European locale in an effort to provide...
DJs' negative publicity campaigns and Twitter beefs are getting on our resident ranter's wick...
Hey bird brains! You know what really gets on my wick? What really fucking winds me up? DJs, producers, artists (I use the term loosely)...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
More and more women are taking to the decks. But there are some sexist idiots who can't get their heads round it...
Man approaches decks. “Alright love,” he says. Although my heart sinks, I smile politely and say hello back, hoping he’s not going to try and...
When did dance get so damned elitist?
“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove… One day Jack declared, "Let there be HOUSE!" and house music was born. And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all... Jack is the one that can bring nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House.”
The problem? Too many DJs...
Slowly and surreptitiously over the course of the last decades, a plague has infested and infected club land. It’s a disease that has eaten away at the core art of the DJ and at the very dynamics of almost any club night you care to attend.