Ever since the birth of acid house in the late ‘80s, UK dance music has been defined, legislated against and demonised on the basis of...
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DJ Mag delves into the history of dance culture’s Woodstock...
In 1992 there was a festival in the UK that changed the course of dance music history. A culmination of the acid house explosion, it...
Nixwax returns to Plan B to celebrate 6th vinyl release
Formed in 2011 to focus more on timeless dance music than passing flash-in-the-pan fads, Nixwax takes inspiration from the various avenues – disco, techno, house – currently explored within UK bass music today.
Opinion
If you’re telling people to “keep politics out of music”, you’re missing the point. Here, DJ Mag’s Harold Heath explains why politics are an integral...
Features
The summer of 2021 has seen a perfect storm of drug-related risks hit the UK dance scene: from an abundance of first-time ravers who turned...
The Chicago-based DJ is famous for speaking his mind and continues to be the flag-bearer of underground house...
He’s known for speaking his mind on social media but Chicago-born house legend DJ Sneak is on the road to redemption. We meet him during...
News
The film has the approval of the Shakur estate
Proposes to change planning policies in favour of existing businesses...
The UK government has released a new whitepaper focused on fixing the country’s current housing crisis, and buried away in the annex is a spot...
Dance music fans have just until midnight tonight to register for the EU referendum...
While the EU referendum is a hot topic in the UK at the moment — we haven’t heard anything on the ramifications for dance music...
Features
Brexit happens early next year, but its impact upon musicians working in the EU remains unclear. We delve into the potential effects of the UK’s...
NOTE: This article is over two years old and some information may be out of date. Please refer to this feature, written in January...
The youth vote could make all the difference in a close-run campaign...
DJs are urging young people to vote in the UK election, which takes place this Thursday 8th June.
In recent times, more than half of...
Cover Features
A rapper, producer and head of the No Days Off brand, Knucks smashed into the UK album charts this year with his ‘Alpha Place’ project, presenting his ‘chill drill’ sound in all its evolved glory. His triumphant homecoming show at KOKO in Camden saw collaborators like Stormzy, SL, Youngs Teflon and Ragz Originale join him on stage. Here, Yemi Abiade meets the Londoner to learn how there are now no limitations on his future
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When Dax J made worldwide headlines last year for dropping an Islamic call to prayer sample during his set in Tunisia, it looked for a minute...
'Public indecency and offending public morality'. Before April last year, those words probably meant about as much to Dax J as his name did to...
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An icon of the pop art movement who collaborated with Andy Warhol and Grace Jones...
The first major UK exhibition of coveted pop and graffiti artist Keith Haring will open at Tate Liverpool in June 2019.
Renowned for working with...
Cover Features
The Black Madonna is the real deal. Raised in Kentucky but born in the DJ booth of Chicago's Smartbar, she's unleashed the true spirit of...
It’s a Sunday in 2015 on the third day of UK festival Field Maneuvers, a back to basics ‘dirty little rave’ held in a eld just...
Proof that the scene is still going strong
Despite a succession of club closures during 2016, the UK scene has remained bullish. In London, Fabric has been saved to everyone’s relief and a...