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The red pill or the blue pill?! Rocha & Lewinger's 'Into The Matrix' covermount CD for DJmag is a blistering, funky techno juggernaut from a...

Uruguayan crowd pleasers Gabriel Rocha and Robertito Lewinger first joined forces as aspiring DJs with residencies at the famous Milenio club in the capital city...

JIVA! is available now

A new series about the South African electronic music scene is out now.

Titled JIVA!, the five-part series, produced by Cape Town's Blue Ice Africa...

Since the international rise of acts like Black Coffee and Culoe De Song, the spotlight is shining once again in the direction of the South...

A nation defined by its innate love of house music, the Rainbow Nation is going through a renaissance which has helped spur GQOM OH! —...

One of the godfathers of Bacardi house has sadly passed... 

South Africa's DJ Spoko— real name Marvin Ramalepe— has died aged 35, due to complications arising from a long-term illness, according to reports. 

An underground...

South African rapper Riky Rick dies, aged 34

A cause of death has not been revealed

South African rapper Riky Rick – real name Rikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado – has passed away, aged 34, his family has revealed. A statement shared by...

Photo of DESIREE wearing a purple hat and eye-makeup on an emerald background

Soaring ascents, the kind that can take an artist from obscurity to stardom in what seems to be the blink of an eye, don’t occur often, in dance music or elsewhere – those who are lucky enough to have that experience often disappear just as quickly. But there’s little chance of a quick fade for South Africa’s Palesa Desiree Shilabje, the DJ and producer known to the world as DESIREE, who in just a few short years has proved to be one of the international festival circuit’s most exciting new stars. Here, Bruce Tantum hears her story, and about how her evolution through music has been as organic as they come

“I’m finally home.” Those three words are among the first that the South African DJ and producer Palesa Desiree Shilabje utters when DJ Mag catches...

Huge line-up coming to Johannesburg & Cape Town

The South African leg of the US EDM festival, which will be landing in Johannesburg and Cape Town shortly, has just added Fedde LeGrand and...

New Berlin event series, Soy&Synth, celebrates South Asian and South American diasporic artists

Soydivision, L_KW and Midnight Shift come together to highlight emerging experimental artists through a series of improvisational performance and discourse events, plus a live compilation

A new event series in Berlin aims to celebrate emerging experimental artists from the South American and South East Asian diasporas. South by South Sonic...

The Miller Global Breakthrough Festival is go!

South Africa's beautiful Cape Town is set to rumble to a bad-ass beat as The Miller Global Breakthrough Festival returns to the city for another...

Amapiano contributes to increased tourism to South Africa, report finds

Comments made by the country's Tourism acting CEO, Themba Khumalo

Amapiano music has been credited with providing a significant boost to tourism in South Africa. Speaking to News24 at the launch of World Tourism Month...

We asked Afro-funk avatar Sinkane to share his deep knowledge of African music

Signed to City Slang and DFA Records, influenced by everything from indie, krautrock and folk to psychedelic funk, electronica and reggae, Ahmed Gallab is that...

The state of the environment has never been worse, but could

dance music be contributing to the problem? DJ Mag regular

Martin Guttridge-Hewitt examines if...

From South East Asia to the Western US, North to South Africa, people can’t get enough of synths and syncopated rhythms. Electronic beats are officially...

Australian-based producer spills beans on debut album

Last week we featured a video exclusive of 'Reset', a track from 'Speed of Life', the forthcoming debut album from Australia-based producer Dirty South...

As part of DJ Mag's round-up of all the best in dance music in 2019, and in the 2010s, we decided to spotlight some of...

We take a look back at the news of 2015 through the prism of the international dance music scene. It's been quite a year!

January is a notoriously slow month in clubland — a time when gym memberships take priority over all-nighters and pennies are scraped together. Many top...