Site of New York’s iconic Pyramid Club to become new venue, Night Club 101 (DJ Mag)

By |2024-12-21T12:59:29-06:00December 21st, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, House, House Music, Music News, New York, news, Promotional, Report|

  The new venue is being masterminded by the team behind Baby’s All Right Plans are in place to open a new venue, Night Club 101, on the former site of New York’s historic Pyramid Club. As Pitchfork reports, Billy Jones and Tom Moore, the core duo behind Brooklyn's Baby’s All Right venue, are working in partnership with [...]

New tech that helps producers get paid for DJ plays gains support (DJ Mag)

By |2024-12-19T22:08:58-06:00December 19th, 2024|AlphaTheta, DJ, DJ Mag, electronic music, Music News, Music Tech, producer, Promotional|

  Fairer royalty dividends for artists based on what you hear in a club, at no extra cost to venues   New software which helps producers get paid when a DJ plays their music in a club is gaining support from across the industry. AlphaTheta's KUVO powered by DJ Monitor was launched to "champion fair royalties [...]

Winter Music Conference returns to Miami in 2025 (DJ Mag)

By |2024-12-15T18:39:27-06:00December 15th, 2024|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Deep House, DJ, DJ Mag, House, House Music, miami|

  The event's 35th anniversary will run across three days from 26th-28th March Miami's annual Winter Music Conference has confirmed its return for 2025.  Marking its first edition since 2019, the 35th anniversary celebration of the event is scheduled to take place from 26th-28th March at Eden Roc Miami Beach, and it will encompass a [...]

Frankie Knuckles’ 70th birthday to be celebrated at fabric all-day event in January (DJ Mag)

By |2024-12-08T17:22:39-06:00December 8th, 2024|Chicago, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, DJ Mag, Frankie Knuckles, House, House Music, House Music History, UK|

  The Chicago house pioneer's longtime production partner Eric Kupper will guest at the event fabric is putting on a special event in January to mark what would have been the 70th birthday of Frankie Knuckles. Taking place during the daytime of Saturday, 25th January, the London club's For Frankie event will mark the first [...]

Sublime Records and the dawn of Japanese techno (DJ Mag)

By |2024-12-03T21:29:15-06:00December 3rd, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, International, Techno|

  Born on the basement dancefloor of Tokyo’s Maniac Love club in 1994, Sublime Records quickly became a definitive label for Japan’s nascent techno scene, furthering the international profiles of emerging visionaries like Ken Ishii and Susumu Yokota and building connections with artists in North America and the UK. In celebration of its 30th anniversary [...]

Green Velvet is the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2024 Outstanding Contribution Award winner (DJ Mag)

By |2024-12-01T19:24:20-06:00December 1st, 2024|Chicago, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, House Music, House Music History, producer|

  From discerning, standout inter-continental hits like ‘Flash’ and ‘La La Land’ to his pioneering labels and action-packed DJ sets, Chicago don Green Velvet has been a crucial figure in the development of house music over the past 30 years. Continually pushing forwards, not content to rest on his laurels, he’s a deserving winner of [...]

No sounds are out of bounds: how The Orb brought ambient house to the masses (DJ Mag)

By |2024-11-27T22:43:33-06:00November 27th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, electronic music, House Music, House Music History, UK|

  With an anything-goes approach to sampling, and a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour that's often branched into the bizarre, ambient house outfit The Orb have cultivated one of the largest, and most varied, catalogues in British electronic music. 35 years on from their debut single, and with the help of founder Dr Alex Peterson, Ben [...]

Opus III ‘It’s A Fine Day’: The making of a dance anthem (DJ Mag)

By |2024-11-20T20:28:09-06:00November 20th, 2024|Dance Music, DJ Mag, House Music History, UK|

    Kirsty Hawkshaw, the voice behind Opus III’s 1992 hit ‘It’s A Fine Day’, shares the making of one of UK dance music’s most beloved hits. Kirsty Hawkshaw, the voice behind Opus III’s 1992 hit ‘It’s A Fine Day’, shares the making of one of UK dance music’s most beloved hits. Hawkshaw gives DJ [...]

Watch Carl Cox and Kevin Saunderson DJ b2b 20 years ago in Rotterdam (DJ Mag)

By |2024-11-14T21:49:05-06:00November 14th, 2024|African American, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, DJ Mag, House Music, International, Techno|

  “Four turntables, boxes and boxes of vinyl, a huge light and sound rig and thousands going crazy in Rotterdam...” Kevin Saunderson has shared some footage of a b2b set he played alongside Carl Cox 20 years ago in Rotterdam. Split into five parts and posted to Saunderson’s Instagram, the footage shows the two old [...]

Native Instruments announces Machine 3.0, including stem separation technology (DJ Mag)

By |2024-11-12T20:22:30-06:00November 12th, 2024|Digital Dj Tips, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, DJ Mag, Djtechtools, Internet, producer|

    Native Instruments has updated the software for its long-running Maschine beatmaking and production device. The new interface adds stem separation, allowing users to isolate vocals, instrumentals, drums, basslines and more, before re-sampling and chopping them up, without having access to the multi-track studio stems. Maschine 3’s stem separation is powered by iZotope’s RX [...]

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