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Daren Elis Undercover Agent Dies

A fundraising campaign has begun to help with funeral costs 

Darren Ellis, the influential jungle artist known as Daz, Undercover Agent and Splash, has died. The news was announced earlier today, Thursday 21st March 2024...

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Intimate parties with low cost tickets for "bocats on a budget"

SHERELLE has announced a "cheap and cheerful" tour of the UK and Europe. Dates are confirmed at a wide range of small clubs, starting with...

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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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Helmed by 2 Bad Mice, Over/Shadow is one of the most essential labels in the modern jungle/drum & bass scene. Though initially formed around much of the classic Moving Shadow crew, its focus is set firmly on the future, releasing cutting-edge music from artists old and new alike, and aiming to create a sustainable model for all. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, Ben Hindle learns more

2 Bad Mice cemented their place in the annals of UK rave history in the ’90s. Their track ‘Bombscare’ ranks among the most iconic hardcore...

Photo of Leke Adesoye smiling wearing glasses and a blue sweater

A legend of the drum & bass and rave scene responsible for timeless iconography

Fashion designer, illustrator, and drum & bass music figurehead Leke Adesoye, creator of the iconic Junglist Movement design, has died. The news was confirmed yesterday...

Nookie

The veteran drum & bass producer describes the new material as "the best tracks I've ever written"

Nookie has announced a new album, ‘Improvisions’, which arrives via the legendary Metalheadz on 13th October. The veteran drum & bass producer describes the new...

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To celebrate the release, Nia has announced a one-off “Bad Gyalz Day Party” on 6th August 

Nia Archives has shared her new single, 'Bad Gyalz'. You can listen to it below. Coming two months on from sharing a jungle remix of...

Photo of Nia Archives and Jorja Smith smiling behind Pioneer decks

Archives gives the tune a fresh spin with heavy jungle production

Nia Archives has shared a jungle remix of Jorja Smith’s ‘Little Things’, via FAMM. Listen to the track below. The summer-ready remix comes hot on...

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Born from sound system culture, dubplates were once at the heart of UK dance music: specially cut, exclusive records drove the evolution of genres from jungle to dubstep and grime. Here, Joe Roberts looks at the history of UK dubplate culture

This feature is part of our Record Store Day content series. You can also read our feature where 10 DJs select their most treasured dubplates...

The Icon

Velocity Press has announced Dubstep Vol. 1 as part of The Icon Catalogue series

Velocity Press has announced a new addition to its The Icon Catalogue series, titled Dubstep Vol. 1. The zines profile record labels in specific sounds...

Harmony in front of a selection of artwork from his Selections

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Deep Jungle founder Harmony spotlights next-gen producers connecting to the sound’s roots, and longstanding artists who are still ahead of the curve

“I want Deep Jungle to represent both the old and the new,” Lee Bogush, aka Harmony, told DJ Mag in 2022. The longstanding DJ and...

Nia Archives releases new six track EP

The jungle producer kicks off her UK/EU tour next week

Nia Archives has released her new EP, ‘Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall’. Check it out below. The six-track EP, out now via HIJINXX/Island...

Vonne Parks and Andre Dre Gainey of They Hate change side by side in a record store looking at the camera

Tampa duo They Hate Change made an international impact in 2022 with their album, ‘Finally, New’, showcasing an exhilarating mix of Floridian rap and breaks with flourishes of jungle, drum & bass and UK rave. They talk to Eoin Murray about the birth of the Gulf Coast sound, learning from the DIY scene, and joining a global community of artists pushing innovative genre fusions
 

It’s Halloween 2016 in Tampa, Florida, and Andre “Dre” Gainey and Vonne Parks are experiencing their eureka moment at a friend’s house party. The pair...

Nia Archives So Tell Me

The video is directed by Dan Emerson

Nia Archives has shared a new single and video, 'So Tell Me...'. You can watch the clip below. The track offers rolling beats, warm melodies...

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Album, mixtape, radio station, artwork and more, with input from Bryan Gee, Om Unit, Naina, Eddie Peake, and Mantra

Drum & bass and jungle stalwart Fracture has unveiled a new multi-platform project which pays homage to, and is inspired by, UK pirate radio culture...

GoFundMe for Junglist Movement founder Leke Adesoye and family amid serious health issues

The fashion brand founder, who suffers from sickle cell anaemia, has been left in hospital after a fall

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise money to support Junglist Movement founder Leke Adesoye and his family while he is in hospital. Adesoye...

!K7 relaunches EP series with Tim Reaper and Kloke: Listen

Listen to 'Flow State/Museum' now

!K7 has relaunched its EP series with two tracks from London's Tim Reaper and Melbourne's Kloke. You can listen to the release, 'Flow State/Museum', below...

Watch a new documentary on jungle and drum & bass’ early days

The Rest Is History: The Early Days of Jungle & Drum 'n' Bass is available now

A new documentary on the formative years of jungle and drum & bass has been released at select UK cinemas and via the VOD service...

Watch a new five-part documentary series, The Evolution of Black British Music

The first episode highlights jungle's Hackney roots with revered originators Fabio & Grooverider, Roni Size, Goldie and more

There's a new documentary series highlighting the Black origins of British dance and electronic music. 'The Evolution of Black British Music' is a five-part series...

Congo Natty

On his upcoming 25-track opus ‘Ancestorz’ — which he describes as his life's work — long-serving jungle soldier Congo Natty unites many voices from across the diaspora, joining dots through the history of Black music and celebrating the new jungle generation. In a series of in-depth interviews for DJ Mag, he talks to Dave Jenkins about love, revolution, unity, and reclaiming his place in the history books

“This isn’t an interview, brother, this is an outerview!” Congo Natty declares. He draws on his spliff, holding DJ Mag’s gaze with intensity. Even through...