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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future 

It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...

100 of the World's Best DJs

Limited to just 3,000 copies

A new book — 100 of the World's Best DJs – celebrates DJ culture around the world. The limited-edition book features DJs including Larry Levan...

The Warehouse Project returned for its final year at its “spiritual home” of Store Street last weekend. DJ Mag’s deputy digital editor Rob McCallum looks...

The UK club scene has changed hugely since the mid-noughties. The End is gone. As are The Cross, Turnmills, The Arches, Sankeys and countless more...

With Zombie Disco Squad, Ikonika and more...

Egg London's flagship new night The Future Now returns on Friday 14th October with another chock-a-block line-up of today's most influential artists who are shaping...

Audio-visual artists have always played a vital role in shaping the distinctive aesthetic identity of electronic music. In the evolution of analogue slide projectors to...

@smithandlyallAdam Smith & Marcus Lyall are the London based creative duo behind The Chemical Brothers’ live shows and music videos, combining digital methods with real-life...

Kode9’s Hyperdub has been a critical force in shaping a more diverse electronic scene, both sonically and socially. Having weathered the loss of Chicago footworker...

Fifteen might be the anniversary that it is currently celebrating, but the most important number in Hyperdub land is zero. Stylised as Ø but pronounced...

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Watch David Guetta create a ‘Titanium’ edit from scratch via DJ Mag's YouTube channel.

In our latest original feature content, Grammy award-winning DJ and producer...

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Developers British Land and AustraliaSuper hope to reinstate the live music and arts venue, alongside new offices and shops

Printworks could reopen as soon as 2026 as a “permanent cultural venue”, according to new development plans submitted to Southwark council. Property developers British Land...

"You have NO BUSINESS DJing if you can’t match two beats together, plain and simple. But DJing is not just about matching two beats together"

A few months ago, three-time DMC-winning turntablist and DJ Mag HQ alumnus DJ Craze raised eyebrows everywhere when he proclaimed that ‘sync is your friend’...

Experimental, accomplished and downright epic, Marc Mac and Dego McFarlane’s 1998 classic served as a blueprint for the divine future possibilities of drum & bass music

1998 was a landmark, if slightly troubling, time for drum & bass. It was a year of shifting styles, sprawling albums, and new sub genres, one that saw...

Scottish hardcore visionaries Clouds, together with designer David Rudnick, have gone above and beyond for their new album project, creating a nightmare future, yet finding...

It’s past midnight and DJ Mag is roaming around the grounds of a former prison in the arse-end of Amsterdam. We’re here with Clouds, a...

Big, bad and heavy d&b and dubstep

This week we have secured another exclusive mix for you from one of Ram Records latest signings -Ben Hall and Si James AKA Delta Heavy...

Storm b2b Bailey, Culture Shock, Harriet Jaxxon and Mark XTC b2b Northbase feature on the line-up... 

Andy C has announced his Xmas Party at Printworks in London. 

The mammoth gathering will take place on Saturday 7th December, running from midday to...

Hospital Records boss goes on the road...

Hospitality In The Park — the UK's first ever drum & bass festival — is fast-approaching and we can barely contain our excitement! But it's...