House

“I never latch on to one particular trend when it comes to music,” says Luke Solomon. We’re talking about the New Jersey house revival currently pumping energy bubbles into the British underground house scene. And the reason we’re talking about it is because old school New Jersey house, says Luke, is something he loved and lived through the first time round.

Freshly signed to Rinse with a massive tune set to run dancefloors and radios this spring, and with huge tracks for Kerri Chandler's Madtech doing the rounds, Krystal Klear's disco-informed house is more in vogue than ever

Say Hawaii to most people, and they more likely than not immediately think of surfing, grass skirts and the type of brightly-coloured Hawaiian shirt worn by Fatboy Slim for the past 15 years. But in the last few years, quality underground dance music has found a home in this American outpost too — thanks to an after-hours club known to dance-crazy locals as Asylum.

Unless you are a switched on head roaming London, it's unlikely you'll have heard of Loose Synths. Started as a blog focusing specifically on under-the-radar garage, house and bass by Spokes, Shooting Horses and DLVRY, the first Loose Synths release comes from one of the chief family members (including a remix from Spokes) is a golden nugget of 4/4 garage deserving of your attention. Expect to hear a lot more from these guys going forward.

I’m going to tell you a little story about dancing — this is a dance music mag, after all. It’s 1991. I’m deep in some ramshackle Northern warehouse rave. I’m at one with the universe, have just had my sixth life-changing conversation of the evening and am now busy chatting with my fourth new best friend in the last hour.

Henrique Oliveira tells DJ Mag that he was listening to electronic music for years before he decided he wanted to get involved and create his own music. He was a breakdancer before he threw himself into dance music, and as his home city of Curitiba is quite a big city, he was able to come across an electronic music scene quite easily.

Andy Cato met Tom Findlay through mutual friends after they both left college in the mid-‘90s. Andy was making trance and was in a couple of bands, while Tom was from more of a rare groove background, DJing in Manchester clubs when he was a student.

Besides Prezzo, Stefano Miele (Riva Starr) is probably East London's most popular Italian import – among dance heads at least – it's easy to see...

There are few givens in this life. One stone cold truth, however, is that Hot Creations man Richy Ahmed is wicked on the ones and...

As part of 2013's Top 100 Clubs' feature, we asked the key DJs their favourite places to play.

Ben Watt's label Buzzin' Fly will no longer be signing new artists or releasing any new material, the label announced last month. The label, which launched in 2001, will exist as an archive-only label, while the first in a series of deluxe digital anthologies will come out on 22nd April.

“After I do a gig, if I’m in a party mood, it’s my tour manager’s job to remind me that this is my job,” says 25-year-old megastar DJ Hardwell. “Even though when I DJ and travel it doesn’t feel like a job. It feels like a dream come true.”

My first gig was at the age of 17 in a club called Vibration [in Karlsruhe, Germany], where I eventually became a resident after this first gig.

Darius Syrossian is a man who knows his tunes. He's also an experienced radio presenter, delivering a monthly show loved by many for ViVa Music until summer last year, so we decided to team up with Darius to launch a show of our very own.

The team responsible for some of Amsterdam's coolest parties has announced a two day festival in the heart of Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest) taking place 23rd – 24th August, entitled Dekmantel Festival.

The fresh house stylings of Duke Dumont are primed to crossover


Layo & Bushwacka! were a popular tech house duo before Millennium time, but after they released ‘Love Story’ in 2002 they totally went supernova. They met at the legendary central London nightclub The End, where Bushwacka!, aka Matthew Benjamin, was a resident DJ and Layo Paskin was co-owner (with Mr C). 



Swapping functionality for funk, Daniel Steinberg's 'Treptow' LP is ready to drop onto Arms & Legs on 25th March.

“First record I bought was 'Dancing In The Street' by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas. It was a picture disc, 45 rpm (1964), and naturally a big track at the time.”

Some days you wake up and just have a blinder — for Dusky that blinder has been pretty much every day for the last year. It’s fair to say that the London duo have — in technical parlance — well-and-truly smashed it. Number #1 iTunes Dance Single of 2012? In the bag with the beyond-ubiquitous 'Flo Jam'. Radio 1 Essential Mix? Done, knocked off with style, and shortlisted for mix of the year. They’ve helped shift the paradigms for dubstep and house, had productions rinsed by everyone from Loefah to Calvin Harris, and killed it in Ibiza at DC-10. Ebullient and still humble, is it any surprise that Dusky producers Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman are loving life right now?