Comin Up
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 &...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
Edward Knights's melodic electronics got us burning up
Handle with care. The flickering, mesmeric sonics of The Naked Flame are deceptively deadly and could burn their way indelibly into your affections. Hailing from...
Spanish producer Uner aims for the stars with his debut album
When you release tracks on Cadenza, Visionquest, Cocoon and Diynamic, you must have something special going on. Spanish DJ/producer Uner is one such person, and...
Nat's entertainment!
Zombie Disco Squad (ZDS) first arose in the mid-noughties, when two DJs — Nat Self and Lucas Hunter — started throwing parties in various West...
7 inspiring records selected by the bass don
Daniel Pearce, the man that is Eats Everything, otherwise known as Dan, is on his way to DJ at a friend's wedding. It's going to...
Major Lazer, Foals, Beck and Clean Bandit join Outkast on the bill
Bestival head honcho Rob Da Bank has just announced eleven more acts for this summer's event.
Beck and Foals have both been confirmed as headliners...
Watch the 2013 ADE after-movie here
The dates have just been announced for the 2014 Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), Europe's premier dance music conference. The wide-ranging five-day event will take place...
One half of Diynamic duo delves deep
First record you ever bought?
“Was not bought, but got it from my cousin. Must have been Discorama 'Born To Be Alive', I guess.”...
The pot begins to Perc
UK techno dude Perc, aka Ali Wells, had a momentous first clubbing experience while still at school, he tells DJ Mag. “I borrowed one of...
Watch the Ten Years Of Dance doc and win a box set!
Toolroom Records are commemorating their tenth anniversary with an extensive limited edition box set and an extremely well made documentary on the last ten years...
How to maybe get your music used in films...
Digital music sales have started to make up for vinyl sales going through the floor, but nevertheless producers are always looking for new revenue streams...
A hit with Hawtin & Dubfire
How many young DJ/producers would give their right arm to have Richie Hawtin AND ex-Deep Dish dude Dubfire queuing up to put out their tracks...
This month's essential label
Who's behind it?
German techno DJ/producer Oliver Huntemann's label is Ideal Audio. Over to Oliver to take up the story.
“The label’s first release was...
Jack from Friendly Fires and Edwin of Foals are in Deep Shit
We’ve come a long way since James Murphy told us rock kids were trading guitars for turntables. No longer does throwing a few synths into...
The year's most memorable selections...
Despite the free music market we live in today, 2013 coughed up another smorgasbord of good quality comps from clubs, labels and collectives committing to...
Can ravers propel old hardcore hit to the top of the UK charts?
Christmas is often a time of naff records and cringeworthy sentimentality, but in recent years — since the advent of downloads — there have been...
Second album out now on Drumcode
Italian DJ/producer Joseph Capriati is the next techno DJ to break into the big league. He's about to release his second artist album, 'Self Portrait'...
At The Garage, London.
Orbital have just unveiled a prestigious plaque at the place where they played their first-ever live gig. The PRS For Music heritage award has been...
The return of the Angel!
Dave is resolutely BACK — but where has he been?