Techno
The Detroit techno/house DJ/producer gives us the ten records that defined him...
Not many 12-year-olds grow up listening to Plastikman, or list hardcore metal heads Pantera – authors of the anthemic “Fucking Hostile” - alongside Jeff Mills...
Stream a track off 'The Butterfly Effect' LP first
Eagles & Butterflies lives up to his alias. The vetted Ibiza techno and house conspirator, born Chris Barratt, will make you fly away into sonic...
Kevin Saunderson talks about his set, son and Miami...
Techno original Aril Brikha is one of the smartest producers around...
The day before DJ Mag speaks to Brikha, the producer played a mammoth Berghain Sunday session, enticing the crowd with his deep techno blends and...
INTERVIEW: Sound designer releases debut album 'Human'
Max Cooper is one of the cleverest DJ/producers working in the industry today. He has a PhD in genetics, but has instead decided to make...
Online DJ mixes may be disposable but Rotterdam techno stalwart Speedy J reckons they’re worth more than that
Online DJ mixes may be disposable but Rotterdam techno stalwart Speedy J reckons they’re worth more than that, which is why he’s putting out an...
In October 2013 London’s best-known record shop, Phonica has turned 10.
Opening a vinyl-only store in Soho just over 10 years ago was seen as a risky move. The area was, and still is, saturated with...
Kansas-born, Brooklyn-based Beckwith is breaking through with a fresh house sound founded on bulbous bass and crisp melodies. We find out how he's one of...
“I am from the Midwest, the real Midwest, like Kansas. Remember Dorothy and the Wizard? Well that’s where I am from.” Beckwith grew up so...
Belfast's Phil Kieran celebrates his new Hotflush release
Belfast producer and DJ Phil Kieran's ever-shifting sonic palette took another twist recently with the release of 'Going There' (and b-side 'Getting Away') on Scuba's...
The Qube — a basement venue at London Victoria — has arrived. DJ Mag explores...
With interest in house and techno higher than ever, the bug is spreading across the Big Smoke. Before it was mostly restricted to a small...
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...
Efdemin is one of Berlin's most pioneering and different techno and deep house DJ/producers, we talk about his new album
Efdemin, to the uninitiated, is two things: a true DJ's DJ and an artist whose productions have exemplified a strain of the German ambient and...
The Pryda Friend's mix and chat with DJ Mag
Fresh of touring with Pryda Friend Fehrplay, opening for Eric Prydz on his EPIC 2.0 dates, Jeremy Olander is still on the move. He recently...
Reviving the TR-909 & TB-303
Roland have just announced the all new Aira range and as everyone expected there is a shout back to some of the original Roland synths and Drum machines that have help to shape dance music culture for over 20 years.
New sample packs for Maschine & Ableton Live
Niche Audio from Loopmasters is the new sample label specializing in authentic boutique processed sample kits for Maschine and Ableton Live
Agoria, aka Seb Devaud, talks cinema and beauty
French techno don Agoria makes gorgeous, evocative electronic music. With three beatific albums under his belt, he tells DJ Mag that he’s refined his way...
From Intec and Etch boss Jon Rundell
It takes focus and dedication to tick the full range of boxes – DJ, producer, label boss – but Jon Rundell's rise through the techno...
The seminal tracks that changed dance forever
Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May were high school pals with Juan Atkins in Belleville, just outside of Detroit. It was Juan who started making other-worldly...
Hear Uner's 'LFO' off his Diynamic released album
A fast rising star amongst the European techno elite and considered to be something of an ambassador for the growing Spanish techno family, UNER has...