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Life-changing encounters: Meetings with the gqom king, DJ Lag

Shiba Melissa Mazaza speaks to South African pioneer DJ Lag about his debut album 'Meeting With The King' and a series of encounters that shaped his path in music and life

How opening up to his emotions helped Saba make his best album yet

Aneesa Ahmed speaks to Chicago rapper Saba about his ever-evolving artistry and the new heights he hits on his latest album 'Few Good Things'

Watch a new film about Andrew Weatherall: Sail We Must

The short film explores the Irish origins of the personal mantra Andrew carried in his life and art — Fail We May, Sail We Must

“Crazy, pierced, strange-haired children": Jump into the colourful 00s heyday of Bulgarian raving

The Bulgarian Rave Archive captures an effervescent era of freewheeling ravers

"Excess was encouraged": An oral history of revolutionary LGBTQ+ party Trade

Michael Lawson traces the history of Trade, the 'original all-night bender' that set the blueprint for gay clubbing

Get to know Infinite Coles, the R&B singer inspired by NYC's queer dancefloors

Manu Ekanayake speaks to Infinite Coles about finding self-acceptance in the queer underground and following in the musical footsteps of his dad Ghostface Killah and uncle RZA

Have you got ‘rave fatigue’?: Why we're all so tired after lockdown

Did you look forward to the return of clubbing for 16 long months and now find yourself too tired to stay out all night? Megan Townsend explores how the pandemic affected our energy levels and finds out how to get your party stamina back

"It went completely nuts": 5 DJs on their career taking off during lockdown

How does it feel to return from a long gigging break to find a new legion of fans raring to see you play? Gemma Ross speaks to five artists who hit new levels of popularity during lockdown

Exchanging energies: Sofia Kourtesis' colourful house wants to make the world a better place

Jemima Skala speaks to Sofia Kourtesis about Peru, protest, processing grief and the story of her new single ‘Estación Esperanza’

How the first Mixmag cover animated by AI technology was made

Becky Buckle speaks to digital artist Tom Furse about using artificial intelligence to animate HAAi's cover

An ambitious ending: The highs and lows of The Drumsheds' final party

We headed down to Meridian Water for the glorious last hurrah of an ill-fated symbol of London clubland

The 9 best nightclubs in video games

From a basement gay bar in GTA to a dubstep superclub in Call Of Duty, these are the best nightclubs to explore in video games

Review: New York club Nebula is bringing dance music back to Manhattan

After decades of gentrification and city policy has pushed culture out of Manhattan, a new dance music club has opened in the borough. David McGraw reviews the opening

“We take pride in Detroit wherever we go”: DJ Minx and Carl Craig in conversation

Ralph Moore talks to Detroit legends DJ Minx and Carl Craig about Planet E turning 30 and the changing club scenes of Chicago, Detroit and New York

Spectrogram art: A short history of musicians hiding visuals inside their tracks

Becky Buckle explores the history of artists concealing visuals within the waveforms of their music

Opening up: HAAi is exiting lockdown with an assured vision and daring debut album

HAAi announces her debut LP 'Baby, We're Ascending' and talks to Katie Thomas about growing in confidence as a musician, connecting with her community, and bringing up new artists

“Freedom and thrill”: The lockdown project paying homage to the rave

Newcastle-based curator Jordan Taylor talks us through his boisterous photography platform

Goldie: “People never give props to drum 'n' bass for what it's done for electronic music"

Goldie speaks to Ralph Moore about writing tracks for Bowie, the underappreciation of drum 'n' bass, and his motivational 'Kubrick Theory'

"He was a revolution": Busy P on the remarkable legacy of DJ Mehdi

Becky Buckle speaks to Ed Banger founder Busy P about releasing unearthed DJ Mehdi music and the late artist's gamechanging impact on electronic music

"A clear head on Sunday morning is a gift": Why DJs and ravers are embracing sobriety

Niamh Ingram explores the benefits sobriety can bring for people involved in dance music, including in-depth chats with Patrick Topping, Rebekah and Radio Slave

New book captures the ‘temporary utopia’ of Prague’s rave scene

Location TBA depicts raves between 2015-2020 through images, interviews, and essays