François Kevorkian on Defining the Sound of Disco (Red Bull Music Academy)

By |2024-07-06T12:40:30-05:00July 6th, 2024|Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Deep House, DJ, electronic music, House, House Music, House Music History, Interviews, Music News, New York, producer, Red Bull Music Academy|

  **This interview originally appeared on the Red Bull Music Academy website March 9, 2018. From the DJ History archives: The super-producer and DJ looks back on a star-studded career, from Diana Ross to Depeche Mode François Kevorkian’s is a truly New York story. Moving to the city from France in 1975, with a plan [...]

Legendary house music vocalist Kathy Brown to release album on Glitterbox for cancer charity (DJ MAG)

By |2024-07-04T11:10:54-05:00July 4th, 2024|Dance Music, Deep House, Defected, DJ Mag, Entertaiment, Glitterbox, House, House Music, MixMAg, Music News, New Release, press release, Report, Resident Advisor|

  Brown was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer late last year Glitterbox is releasing an album to raise funds for Kathy Brown's chosen cancer charity, Macmillan Cancer Support. The legendary house vocalist was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, which has since spread to her brain, late last year. A GoFundMe has since been set up by Brown's daughter [...]

SANDBOX IS LEADING THE CHARGE FOR EGYPT’S NEWLY BURGEONING DANCE MUSIC ERA (MIXMAG)

By |2024-06-30T10:03:59-05:00June 30th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, electronic music, Entertaiment, festival, House Music, International|

  Celebrating its 10th anniversary on the Red Sea, Sandbox is a forerunner in Middle Eastern electronics, bringing local and international stars to boutique crowds On a balmy night in May, the Egyptian town of El Gouna is teeming with locals. Old friends are embracing, others clinking glasses over the sound of live music, some [...]

Mike Dunn relaunches influential Dance Mutha label after three decades (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-28T22:30:20-05:00June 28th, 2024|African American, Announcements, Chicago, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, DJ Mag, electronic music, Entertaiment, House, House Music, House Music History, Music News|

  The label will release a new three-track EP in July Legendary Chicago house artist Mike Dunn has announced he will relaunch his influential Danca Mutha imprint after three decades.   Founded by Dunn back in 1988, the label released music by artists such as MD Connection, Gershon Jackson, and I-ROC-T. Dunn also co-founded seminal [...]

Sam Divine: the Queen of Defected Takes Ibiza (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-27T19:26:23-05:00June 27th, 2024|Biography, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Defected, DJ, DJ Mag, House, House Music, International, Interviews, UK|

  Sam Divine is the Queen of Defected, and she’s helming the UK house music brand’s first season at Ushuaïa Ibiza this season as its weekly resident and key figurehead. For the the first of DJ Mag's 2024 Ibiza cover stories, Divine speaks candidly about her difficult upbringing, falling in love with house music, lifestyle [...]

Why Are DJs Playing So Many New Dance Cover Songs? (Billboard)

By |2024-06-26T12:17:41-05:00June 26th, 2024|Billboard, Dance Music, DJ, Editorial, electronic music, Entertaiment, House Music, Louie Vega, My House Radio, producer|

  The Beatport charts have been peppered with club-ready reworks of old hits. "Almost all the labels are doing them," says Glasgow Underground founder Kevin McKay. Early in May, the New York house music stalwarts at Nervous Records were enjoying two hits in the top 10 on the Beatport chart: A zippy, heavily syncopated reimagining [...]

How The Chemical Brothers’ ‘Surrender’ became their biggest, brightest album (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-25T22:51:40-05:00June 25th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, House Music, House Music History, International, manchester UK, Music, UK|

  Released on 21st June 1999, The Chemical Brothers’ third album harnessed the enormity of trance, the ecstasy of acid house, and the vibrancy of psychedelia to become their boldest statement, and a mirror to the hedonistic mood of the UK at that time. Here, with the help of the duo’s Tom Rowlands, Ben Cardew [...]

LGBTQ+ clubbing history podcast, Memories From The Dancefloor, returns for second season (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-09T14:33:44-05:00June 9th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Disco, DJ, DJ Mag, Gay, House, House Music, LGBTQIA+, Trans, UK|

The run of four podcast celebrates Welsh LGBTQ+ venues Memories From The Dancefloor, a podcast that explores and LGBTQ+ clubbing scenes and history, is returning for a second season. The relaunch of the podcast this month coincides with this year's Pride Month, and the second run features four episodes. Over the course of this latest [...]

Marshall Jefferson ‘Move Your Body’ | The Making Of A House Classic (DJ Mag)

By |2024-05-29T20:39:06-05:00May 29th, 2024|Chicago, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, producer|

https://youtu.be/ieU1LQ8l-NQ?si=p2p3LExxlQojaCK- Marshall Jefferson shares the story behind one of house music’s most treasured tracks, "Move Your Body" This is the story behind one of house music’s most treasured tracks, Marshall Jefferson's "Move Your Body." Jefferson takes us back to 1985, when he was working at a postal office in Chicago, and explains “the song [...]

TAKE 10: LOUIE ‘BALO’ GUZMAN (DJ Mag)

By |2024-05-28T22:22:28-05:00May 28th, 2024|DJ, DJ Mag, House, House Music, House Music History, Music, My House Radio, producer|

AKA The Ride Committee     We lost our dear friend and brother, Louie Balo Guzman, this past week. As we struggle to come to terms with this unfathomable loss, we are remembering Balo with a reprint of an article that first appeared in DJ Mag in September 2013 which gives some insight into the [...]

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