In 2015, Belfast’s first AVA Festival and conference found its home beneath the towering yellow Harland & Wolff cranes — affectionately named Samson and Goliath...
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The clubs that changed dance music forever<BR>
“Forget ’88 to ’90. Acid house had died by then... this was a new phase,” recalls drum & bass don Fabio on his legendary residency...
John Digweed and Bill Brewster among those already lending their support...
Clubbing and iconic images tend to go hand in hand. From fabric’s provocative artwork to Ministry of Sound’s infamous crowned gates, the electronic music landscape...
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Next up on London’s TT label is experimental artist Iceboy Violet’s debut mixtape, ‘MOOK’. Hear the aptly titled ‘RAGE 2’ now...
Iceboy Violet will release their debut mixtape via emerging London label TT (FKA Tobago Tracks) this Friday 7th December.
The experimental artist follows up performances...
From DJ Mag & Juno
We have teamed up with Juno for the third year, to give you a bunch of free music throughout December!
Each day this month we...
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Last month, 16,000 ravers attended Belfast's AVA Festival at its new home on the Titanic Slipways. DJ Mag traveled to AVA to discover how the event is creating a sense of unity, community and a second wave of rave in the city
DJ Mag boards London's most unusual clubbing location
It's 6am. Two U-turns beside an industrial estate, we are no closer to knowing where we are — or if our cabbie's even on the right route. E6 (only a stone's throw from Essex) is where we are meant to be headed. Apparently.
Renovated and re-opened in August with London's most advanced soundsystem
Club Warehouse has gone from a funky house venue with a loyal following to one of the most on-the-pulse deep house places around, winning a flood of new fans in the process. We decided to take a look...
We Love... nears its finale
Despite being ravaged by fire and a huge police drugs crack-down, Ibiza continues to enthral clubbers the world over.
Entering its final month of...
One of the most respected and established scratch samplers just got an update.
Plug the new TTM 56S into any socket around the world, and connect turntables or CDs to all of the inputs by flicking a switch....
Stunning little touches give the Rane Empath mixer technical and creative freedom. Absolutely packed with FX loop options and great for scratch DJs too.
Stunning little touches give the Rane Empath mixer technical and creative freedom. Absolutely packed with FX loop options and great for scratch DJs too.
Opinion
Brian Welsh's new film, Beats, captures the excitement of those early rave days, without resorting to cliche or over-the-top nostalgia
Beats, the new film from director Brian Welsh, tells the tale of two Scottish teenagers attending their first rave in 1994, just as the Conservative...
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...
Korg’s Volca range packs huge sounds into tiny packages
It is no secret that the Japanese are obsessed with miniaturisation and Korg are a company that reflects this trait, having gone from producing truly...
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.
Line-up for WHP 2012 announced
Club colossus Warehouse Project served the billing for its 12-week stint at new home at Victoria Warehouse, Old Trafford, this week. And, yes, as...