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The German has also locked an album launch party at Salon Zur Wilden Renate...

Johannes Albert has announced a new album, 'Lichtenberg', his first LP since 2013's acclaimed debut, 'Hotel Novalis'.

A resident at Berlin's legendary nightspot Salon Zur...

Factory Records boss Tony Wilson apparently called it “the most important piece of journalism I’ve read in the last twenty years”...

An anthology of Freaky Dancing, the acid house fanzine that was distributed outside the Haçienda in 1989 and 1990, is to be published later this...

Is wealth and privilege damaging British dance music, and if so, what should we do about it?

WORDS: Matt AnnissPICS: Nicola Nodland & Jillian Edelstein

Since acid house swept the UK 30 years ago and united a generation, British dance has proudly proclaimed its egalitarian credentials. Many believe that the loved up, misty-eyed utopianism...

His distinctive work on the 1988 single helped break acid house into the mainstream...

It was a sad weekend for London clubland as news came through that acid house face Gary Haisman had passed away. Haisman was the distinctive...

The 60-year-old is set for an unexpected debut...

Irvine Welsh has announced that he is working on an acid house album.

Speaking to the Scottish Sun, the 60-year-old Scottish novelist and playwright...

Explore key scenes on the circuit diagram of a 303 bass synthesizer...

Online retailers Dorothy have listed a poster which maps out the history of rave music and culture on the circuit board of a 303 bass...

Seminal acid house outfit to tour material old and new

808 State have announced that they will be going on tour this year to mark their 30th anniversary.

The pioneering acid house group formed in...

Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway and Danny Rampling are all involved...

Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh is penning a new TV series, dubbed Ibiza87, that will tell the story of the birth of acid house and the...

The man, the myth, the legend...

One of the great characters in global electronic music, Mr C is a visionary, artist, actor and activist. He’s been prominent in the underground for...

Watch the trailer for They Call It Acid here...

Carl Cox and Derrick May are amongst a host of big name musicians set to feature in a new documentary about the rise of acid...

RIP Earl Smith...

Earl Smith, known to the world as DJ Spank-Spank and a founding member of acid house group Phuture, has died.

The cause of death is...

DJ Mag talks his new LP as Deadstock 33s & scores a first listen. 

Still brimming with the enthusiasm of a teenager who witnessed acid house's explosion, Justin Robertson's second album as Deadstock 33s is a dark, psychedelic voyage...

<p>EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: ALEJANDRO PAZ'S, NADA MAS</p>

A snarky, anarchist streak runs through much of Latin American electronic music. You hear it in Rebolledo’s rambunctious techno, Matias Aguayo’s beatbox micro-house, Los Mekanikos’s...

Adamski comes with the danger!

Acid house legend Adamski comes with some absolute danger with this mixtape available for free download on our SoundCloud. The mix is a great representation...

Track from their 'Live Acid' set

Berlin-based Swedish duo Genius of Time have made 'Acid 01' available as a free download.

Slow and squidgy, it's a seven-minute-long slice of hypnotic acid...

DJ Mag chats to DJ Pierre about the first proper acid house track...

Nathaniel Pierre Jones was forever tinkering around with electronic devices and mending watches when he was a kid growing up in Chicago. 

“I just naturally...

For a decade Luca Venezia was NYC's king of bass.

Luca Venezia spent most of the last ten years exploding bass bins as dubstep evangelist Drop The Lime. As head of the seminal Trouble &...

With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...

Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'.
Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.

Exclusive promo mix of Terry Farley acid house comp

Internationally acclaimed UK house veteran Terry Farley transports us back to the late '80s hedonism of acid house with a five-disc classics compilation,'Terry Farley Present...

Madchester hell raisers back in the capital this summer

Following their acclaimed two night residency at London's Roundhouse last December, the Happy Mondays have announced a return to the capital for a one off...