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Get acquainted with TDJ, the Montreal-born artist bringing trance-driven eclecticism to her DJs sets and EPs

There’s a bold, unexpected beauty to TDJ’s repertoire, so it feels appropriate that we’d catch the Canadian artist smack in the middle of a sudden...

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Get To Know: Jackie Hollander

Get acquainted with Jackie Hollander, the San Francisco-based melodic house and techno producer whose thumping tracks have landed on labels like Nervous Records, REALM and There Is A Light

Jackie Hollander walked into 2023 with a Hail Mary mindset. “I only had one New Year’s resolution,” she tells DJ Mag on a morning video...

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Get To Know: Necrotype

Get acquainted with Necrotype, the UK jungle and drum & bass producer mixing hefty breaks and bass with spine-tingling synth melodies

“I’ve always felt that d&b is about the breaks, the bass, or both, which is why I’ve tried to experiment more with melodies,” says Tony...

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Get To Know: Honeydrip

Get acquainted with Honeydrip, the Montreal DJ and producer merging the rhythms of sound system culture with spectral ambience and psychedelic vibes

In a 2022 interview, Tiana McLaughlan, the DJ and producer known as Honeydrip, was asked to draw a picture that describes her sound. Her resulting...

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Get To Know: Dana Lu

Get acquainted with Dana Lu, the Dominican-American DJ and producer blending house, Jersey club, dembow and more with a party-starting energy

Musically speaking, Dana Lu can be a bit hard to pinpoint. Listen to her 2019 Boiler Room set — it’s a galloping Jersey club affair...

Rosie Ama and Nadia of Kiara Scuro sitting side by side in a field of tall grass and ferns

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Fresh Kicks 201: Kiara Scuro

Kiara Scuro record a mix of acid-soaked house, trippy techno and gnarly trance for the Fresh Kicks series, and chat to Olivia Stock about finding their identity on the radio, the genre-defying influence of Optimo (Espacio), and their forthcoming debut EP

London-based DJ and production duo Kiara Scuro are all about contrast. From the lavish breadth of their club sets, which flow through low-slung UK techno...

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Get To Know: NIMMO

Get acquainted with NIMMO, the London duo channelling ‘80s and ‘90s queer pop into anthemic dance music

We love NIMMO — their angelic harmonies and earworm pop refrains have been ringing in our ears since first listen, calling to mind icons of...

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Get To Know: SOHMI

Get acquainted with LA's SOHMI, purveyor of the self-coined "minimal pop tech" genre

Many artists tell the same origin story — the one about that fateful night in their teens when they snuck into an illegal party and...

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Get to Know: Imer6ia

Get acquainted with Imer6ia, the artist producing music that is intense, melodic, and darkly dramatic for labels including lavibe, Rush Hour, Tremors, and The Games We Play

A clue to Laetitia Bech’s sound can be found in one of her early musical infatuations. Growing up in the southwest of France near the...

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Get To Know: Dr. Ushūu

Get acquainted with Dr. Ushūu, the Lisbon-born, Paris-based artist whose explosive, space-age beats are shaking up festivals and the official Fortnite soundtrack

Dany Cabral Roças speaks four languages: English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish — or five if you count beats, the vehicle for expression he turned to...

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Get To Know: Miss Grit

Get acquainted with Miss Grit, the producer and multi-instrumentalist whose debut LP explores themes of self-actualisation and identity with cyborgs

Margaret Sohn, the producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who releases music as Miss Grit, grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, but attended college 500 miles...

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Get To Know: Toumba

Get acquainted with Toumba, the Jordanian producer merging cutting-edge machine drums and heavy bass with the melodies and percussive rhythms of the Levant

From the kuduro of Angola to the cumbia of Colombia, the singeli of Tanzania to the mahraganat of Egypt, rhythms from across the world have...

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Get To Know: AAA

Get acquainted with AAA, the East London selector and No Signal resident with a penchant for polished transitions and stunningly varied selections

The phrase ‘triple A’, long associated with ‘access all areas’, has taken on a different meaning, co-opted by an East Londoner with a penchant for...

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Get To Know: Moktar

Get acquainted with Moktar, the Melbourne-based DJ and producer fusing broken techno, house and electro with the music of his Egyptian heritage

With inspiration taken from his Egyptian-Australian heritage, Moktar’s music tells many tales. He first came to light via Mall Grab’s Steel City Dance Discs in...

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Get To Know: DJ Sun

Texas artist DJ Sun — who owns Houston venue the Flat and recently released his third album, ‘Loveletter’ — speaks to Bruce Tantum about his artistic process, and how he likes to take his time

When Andre J E. Sam-Sin, who produces and spins as DJ Sun, decided to celebrate the release of his third album ‘Loveletter: Red Hook to...

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Get To Know: M3NSA

Get acquainted with M3NSA, the endlessly innovative Ghanaian-British MC, beatmaker, and member of influential hiplife duo, FOKN Bois

Mensa Ansah, the Ghanaian-British MC and beatmaker known as M3NSA, has been an active player in the music industry since he was 15. His production...

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Get To Know: Anja Lauvdal

Get acquainted with Anja Lauvdal, the Norwegian pianist whose debut solo album for Smalltown Supersound is a triumph of experimental ambient composition

Since her early-’00s days as a student studying jazz at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium in Norway, Anja Lauvdal has been involved in a head-spinning array of bands...

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Get To Know: Heléna Star

Get acquainted with Heléna Star, the London DJ and broadcaster with a passion for music that moves your feet and nourishes your soul

Heléna Thomson, AKA Heléna Star, is a true selector, with a passion for music that comes from the heart and nourishes the soul. It was...

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Get To Know: Regularfantasy

Get acquainted with Regularfantasy, the Montreal-based artist producing addictive house music with a pop sparkle

From the outside, it would seem that Olivia Meek, the artist known to DIY dance and pop music aficionados as Regularfantasy, had a more productive...

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Get To Know: BRUX

Get acquainted with BRUX, the Sydney-born, Brooklyn-based DJ and producer with a taste for chaos, and noisy, energetic dance music

“I struggle with this,” admits the DJ and producer Elizabeth Maniscalco when asked how she describes the music she makes as BRUX. “It brings me...