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The UKG icon promises an "exciting future" of the sounds he has championed for a quarter century

DJ EZ has launched a new label, NUVOLVE. 

The UK garage hero, whose career spans well over two decades, made the announcement on Monday via...

The MC's Stormzy and AJ Tracey collab gets a 2-step remix

Conducta has shared his UKG edit of Headie One's 'Ain't No Different', a floor-ready, 2-step take on the track featuring grime legend Stormzy and risen...

Keep that summer vibe alive

Conducta has shared a UKG remix of Brixton artist Yiigaa’s new single, ‘Closer’.

The collaboration came together after the recent DJ Mag cover star tweeted...

Conducta is helping to spearhead the new wave of UK garage. His on-point productions, genre-traversing DJ sets and Kiwi Rekords label have made him a...

Speaking with British DJ, producer and label-head Conducta, 26, you’d be forgiven for thinking he was a seasoned music industry veteran with decades behind him...

An hour of unreleased music

Conducta has dropped a new mixtape.

Following the release of 70-minute mix from Conducta's Kiwi Rekords, 'The Kiwi Sound', released in March this year, the...

ABC Of UKG “pays homage to a scene that changed UK music”

A new book will pay homage to the history of UK garage.

ABC of UKG: An Alphabet of UK Garage (the Golden Era) is a new book...

Tributes have been paid to the DJ, whose “contribution to the Black British Music scene will never be forgotten”

Influential UK DJ Steve Sutherland has died. 

The longstanding DJ and broadcaster, who was a pivotal figure on the UK club circuit and airwaves, was...

In our new regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share recent additions to their...

Record stores and clubs around the world are shut, and opportunities to find new music out in the wild have been ripped from under our...

DJ Swagger returns to Thirty Year Records with five UKG-inspired club sizzlers on the ‘Bassline Funkyshit’ EP. Hear the warped and rolling ‘Beta Phase’ now

Germany’s DJ Swagger returns to Thirty Year Records with a sizzling vinyl-only EP, ‘Bassline Funkyshit’. 

Spanning five tracks of UKG-inspired club music, with flourishes of...

The 70-minute mix showcases the most exciting new sounds in UKG

Conducta’s Kiwi Rekords will release a new mix compilation on 6th March, entitled ‘The Kiwi Sound’.

The label, which won Best Breakthrough Label at last...

The six-track EP is out next week

Mind Of A Dragon, one of the leading producers on Conducta's Kiwi Rekords roster, has announced a new EP.

Titled 'Garage', it's made up of...

You can download the five-track 'Juiced (Kiwi Remixes)' now

London-based label Kiwi Rekords has shared a free EP celebrating its first year of releases.

Founded by UK garage champion Conducta, who scooped the award...

It rounds off a bumper year for Conducta's label

Having enjoyed a hugely successful 2019 so far, Conducta's Kiwi Records label has now announced BK2SKL, an impending 10-date tour of the UK. 

The tour...

Across the UK, there's a bubbling scene of young producers and DJs, re-shaping garage for a new generation of ravers. DJ Mag speaks to some...

“No matter how awful the vibe is, you can always stick a garage tune on and it’ll transform the room,” says Manchester producer and DJ...

Klein Zage readies her ‘Womanhood’ EP on her own Orphan. label. Hear the “UKG masterclass in orgasm”, ‘Absolutely’, now...

Klein Zage will release her ‘Womanhood’ EP via her own Oprhan imprint on 1st March.

The Orphan. co-founder readies the label’s third release, featuring three...

Essential listening from the grime and garage heavyweights!

The Craig David comeback is officially here, and he keeps bringing the fire. The UK garage don (check out our recent quickfire Q&A with him...

The Belfast DJ/producer is fast becoming one of the hottest names in garage-laced house music.

“I’m not averse to a bit of shuffling but I wouldn’t say I’m a professional shuffler,” confesses Irish nu-house producer Garry McCartney. “But, when you’re...

We talk Boiler Room, Daft Punk and SW4 in this exclusive back-to-back interview between Tottenham’s DJ EZ and legendary US producer Todd Edwards...

Legends is a word that is bandied around so lazily these days that it often loses all meaning, but with Todd Edwards and DJ EZ, the cap well-and-truly fits.

Ejeca's fresh garage house sound transcends the hype

The last few months have made for a whirlwind ride for Ejeca, aka Belfast producer and DJ Garry McCartney. Just three months ago he was working for an IT company that was slowly firing people, and today he’s embarking on a three-gig Easter weekend marathon.

Seminal tracks that altered dance forever

When I put it on, the whole club stood there and stared at me. I was the only one rocking in the DJ box, no one else was, and when the bassline actually dropped, that's when the whole crowd went a bit loopy for it