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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...

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...

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...

Derrick May will DJ alongside deep house legend Ron Trent in Chicago this Friday, to help raise money for charity.

Deep house legend Ron Trent will team up with Detroit's techno don Derrick May for a DJ session at his Chicago clubnight Africa Hi-Fi this...

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...

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...

Monki makes her Hot Creations debut with the ‘Yurican Soul’ EP. Hear the rolling, acid-tinted title track now

Monki will debut on Hot Creations this month with a new EP, ‘Yurican Soul’. 

The London DJ, producer and Dulwich Hamlet footballer follows releases on...

Band break seven year absence...  

Gorillaz will be returning to North America for the first time in seven years this July for their 'Humanz' album tour.

The 17-date run kicks...

Dennis Ferrer shares his best Amsterdam tips...

It’s a tale of two cities for Dennis Ferrer, a native New Yorker who has brought his New Amsterdam swagger to Amsterdam, Holland. The half...

New London mini-festival, Sounds of African Electronic Music, announced for March

It's the capital's first festival dedicated to African electronic music

A new mini-festival dedicated to African electronic music will launch in London next month. Presented by Drums Radio - the UK’s only 24/7 online platform...

Meshing hard techno and gabber beats with pan-African drum rhythms and pairing IDM electronics with juke house, Nkisi is a truly unique talent defying genre classification...

“They are sculptures from the Congo kingdom,” says Melika Ngombe Kolongo, describing the origin of her artist name, Nkisi. “They’re from pre-colonial times, for ritual...

Inside the UK Afro house renaissance

The Afro house sound is an ever-growing presence in UK dance music, with new labels, club-nights and a dedicated radio station springing up. Alongside a mix from Mr Silk, Ria Hylton explores the sound’s history, and speaks to some of the scene’s key players about forging strong connections with their growing audiences, and their aim to nurture a unique UK Afro house identity

Afro house is steeped in the percussive materials of South Africa’s townships. For decades, its polyrhythms played out on traditional African instruments — bongos, congas...

The Miami street sound of Jesse Perez

“Miami is much more than WMC, growing up here was amazing,” Jesse Perez tells DJ Mag when we ask him what it was like to...

Kicks off 8th February in San Diego...

Don Diablo will be spending February of 2018 touring across the United States. The eight-date Future tour kicks off 8th February in San Diego.

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Adam Beyer, Ida Engberg, Pan-Pot... 

Awakenings has revealed details for its first ever North American stand-alone show, and it's looking huge! 

Since the event was founded in Amsterdam way back...