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Pioneering jungle and drum & bass MC Skibadee dies, aged 54

The news was confirmed via his social media

Skibadee – the pioneering jungle and drum & bass MC who worked with Shy FX, Dillinja and lots more during his career – has died...

Skibadee

"As his firstborn it has fallen to me to help our family with the unexpected loss of my dad."

Asia Wride, daughter of the late jungle and drum & bass legend MC Skibadee, has launched a GoFundMe to support her family following his passing...

Special London Christmas party

As thoughts of summer fade, Outlook Festival give a reminder of their 2010 bass heavy Croation jaunt with a special Christmas party at The Coronet...

The drum & bass institution is back, but not as you know it...

From 17th – 19th March, D&B veterans DJ Hype, Dillinja and Grooverider will grace the slopes of Andorra for the first ever edition...

Seven more dates have been added to the London venues spring calendar...

Printworks has announced seven more dates as part of its spring party series.

Following the January to March run of events which will see Kerri...

The drum & bass and grime MC was battling skin cancer... 

Stormin, the drum & bass and grime MC, has passed away through illness.

An original member of pioneering grime outfit N.A.S.T.Y Crew alongside Kano, D...

Junglist legends host big London party to mark important milestone

The Chemical Brothers, Richie Hawtin, Sama' Abdulhadi and ANNA are among the artists heading to the London venue

Printworks has announced its full line-up for this year's autumn/winter season, with The Chemical Brothers, Sama' Abdulhadi, Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Robert Hood, Todd...

Julia Toppin selects 10 essential documentaries that paint a portrait of 30 years of jungle drum & bass, charting the stories of its origins to...

When compared to other UK dance music genres, the documentary coverage of jungle drum & bass is remarkably thin on the ground, largely limited to...

Time to get busy. 

These are the top 30 UK club events in October 2017, so forget about nuclear war for a second... London sees Fabric pull together a...

Ocean Drive

Despite last night's hectic rush, there's scant rest for the wicked and we're up by midday to catch some weekend Miami rays on...

Better than an office Christmas party...

So another year is as good as done, lying sprawled out on the floor like the hedonistic version of Fatal Attraction's deranged mistress; spent, but...

MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum & bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...

“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” 
Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.

The high-energy drum & bass sub-genre is back... and in a very big way!

Jump-up — the bouncy, bassline-led strain of drum & bass — seems bigger than ever right now. DJ Mag talks to the leading playaz in...

The unmissable parties that you need on your radar!

It’s back. America's most important electronic music gathering is returning to South Beach in Miami. The Winter Music Conference 2013 (and its wider nomenclature Miami Music Week) will be host to the industry's hot shots — the DJs, producers, promoters and label owners pulling the strings of this international emporium we call dance music — their arms (and minds) wide open to another onslaught of Miami madness.