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Is It Time For A DJ Union?

We all hoped the pandemic would be a time for dance music and club culture to ‘re-set’ but a…

So You’re Thinking About Attending A Plague Rave

Writer Ana Monroy Yglesias looks into Tulum, the dark side of dance music culture and why we need to wait…

Gregory Scott’s Kush Cafe: Saturation is the new black

Yes, saturation is a pleasing mix colouring tool, writes Gregory Scott, but its real genius is its ability to craft…

Thomas Cox: The Gear Myth

Thomas Cox questions whether our obsession with expensive production tools is in danger of overshadowing the more important issues of…

2020 A Year In Dance Music. Pt. 2: Plague Raves – Watch Like Nobody’s Dancing

We continue our review of 2020 in dance music, with the second half of a year in which DJs tragically…

If Streaming Isn’t Going Away, Can We Make It Fairer?

We recently published a column about Spotify’s new pay-to-play initiative. This week we’re looking at what…

Thomas Cox: Pulling No Punches

Our new regular columnist Thomas Cox introduces himself and sets out his manifesto for this column: an honest, no-holds…

DJ Mag Top Oh My God Are We Really Doing This Again

The news this week has been full of illegal ballots, voter fraud, recounts and rigged counts – yes that’s right…

Swimming Against The Stream

Spotify announced their latest mad plan ‘Amplifying Artist Input in Your Personalized Recommendations’ this week. Harold Heath shares some fair…

The Unsung Synth Influence Of Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen may have been known as a guitarist but his synth work also had a lasting influence on a generation of kids raised on MTV.

We Need To Talk About Plague Raves

As clubs in Italy and Spain close again amid rising COVID infections, Harold Heath wonders if it might be time…

Unconscious Racial Bias in the Electronic Music Scene

London’s Silverlining (aka Asad Rizvi) who is of mixed Indian and Pakistani origin, shares his experiences of the electronic…

Act Now Before It’s Too Late

Dance music culture in the UK is about to head into the harshest winter it’s ever seen. Harold Heath…

How the DFAM Changed My Modular Life

Darren Selement reveals how Moog’s Drummer From Another Mother changed his life.…

Never Trust a DJ: DJ Translations

There’s a whole language of coded terms used by DJs but fortunately there are new technological solutions that can…

Streaming Won’t Kill DJing, But It Might Just Create DJ Ghosts

Harold Heath makes the case that “streaming won’t kill the DJ star”.…

2020 Manifesto

With all the recent talk of political manifestos, we got to thinking about what an ideal dance music scene might…

Charity and Sabotage: Dance Music Twitter 2019

From business techno to rudeboy techno. From Aphex Twin to Midland. And from Beatport Link to rewinds, Harold Heath sums…

Rage First, Questions Later…

Harold Heath wonders if he would have got away with it…

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