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Nookie announces new album, ‘Improvisions’, on Metalheadz

Nookie has announced a new album, ‘Improvisions’, which arrives via the legendary Metalheadz on 13th October.

The veteran drum & bass producer describes the new...

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Nia Archives shares new single and video, ‘Bad Gyalz’: Watch

Nia Archives has shared her new single, 'Bad Gyalz'. You can listen to it below.

Coming two months on from sharing a jungle remix of...

Photo of Nia Archives and Jorja Smith smiling behind Pioneer decks

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Nia Archives shares jungle remix of Jorja Smith’s ‘Little Things’: Listen

Nia Archives has shared a jungle remix of Jorja Smith’s ‘Little Things’, via FAMM. Listen to the track below.

The summer-ready remix comes hot on...

Black-and-white close-up of dubplate reading Imani Remix

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The rise, fall and revival of UK dubplate culture

Born from sound system culture, dubplates were once at the heart of UK dance music: specially cut, exclusive records drove the evolution of genres from jungle to dubstep and grime. Here, Joe Roberts looks at the history of UK dubplate culture

This feature is part of our Record Store Day content series. You can also read our feature where 10 DJs select their most treasured dubplates...

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Selection of dance music’s most important labels celebrated in new zine collection

Velocity Press has announced a new addition to its The Icon Catalogue series, titled Dubstep Vol. 1. The zines profile record labels in specific...

Harmony in front of a selection of artwork from his Selections

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Selections: Harmony

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Deep Jungle founder Harmony spotlights next-gen producers connecting to the sound’s roots, and longstanding artists who are still ahead of the curve

“I want Deep Jungle to represent both the old and the new,” Lee Bogush, aka Harmony, told DJ Mag in 2022. The longstanding DJ...

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Nia Archives releases new EP, ‘Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall’: Listen

Nia Archives has released her new EP, ‘Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall’. Check it out below.

The six-track EP, out now via HIJINXX/Island...

Vonne Parks and Andre Dre Gainey of They Hate change side by side in a record store looking at the camera

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They Hate Change: parallel worlds

Tampa duo They Hate Change made an international impact in 2022 with their album, ‘Finally, New’, showcasing an exhilarating mix of Floridian rap and breaks with flourishes of jungle, drum & bass and UK rave. They talk to Eoin Murray about the birth of the Gulf Coast sound, learning from the DIY scene, and joining a global community of artists pushing innovative genre fusions

It’s Halloween 2016 in Tampa, Florida, and Andre “Dre” Gainey and Vonne Parks are experiencing their eureka moment at a friend’s house party. The pair...

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Nia Archives shares new single and video, ‘So Tell Me…’: Watch

Nia Archives has shared a new single and video, 'So Tell Me...'. You can watch the clip below.

The track offers rolling beats, warm melodies...

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Fracture explores the history and legacy of UK Pirate Radio on new album, ‘0860’

Drum & bass and jungle stalwart Fracture has unveiled a new multi-platform project which pays homage to, and is inspired by, UK pirate radio culture...

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GoFundMe for Junglist Movement founder Leke Adesoye and family amid serious health issues

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise money to support Junglist Movement founder Leke Adesoye and his family while he is in hospital.

Adesoye...

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!K7 relaunches EP series with Tim Reaper and Kloke: Listen

!K7 has relaunched its EP series with two tracks from London's Tim Reaper and Melbourne's Kloke. You can listen to the release, 'Flow State/Museum', below. ...

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Watch a new documentary on jungle and drum & bass’ early days

A new documentary on the formative years of jungle and drum & bass has been released at select UK cinemas and via the VOD service...

Watch a new five-part documentary series, The Evolution of Black British Music

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New five-part documentary series explores The Evolution of Black British Music

There's a new documentary series highlighting the Black origins of British dance and electronic music.

'The Evolution of Black British Music' is a...

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Congo Natty: junglistic soldier

On his upcoming 25-track opus ‘Ancestorz’ — which he describes as his life's work — long-serving jungle soldier Congo Natty unites many voices from across the diaspora, joining dots through the history of Black music and celebrating the new jungle generation. In a series of in-depth interviews for DJ Mag, he talks to Dave Jenkins about love, revolution, unity, and reclaiming his place in the history books

“This isn’t an interview, brother, this is an outerview!” Congo Natty declares. He draws on his spliff, holding DJ Mag’s gaze with intensity. Even through...

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The Sound Of: Deep Jungle

Releasing both hidden gems from the old school and essential new-gen bangers, Deep Jungle has secured a reputation for buy-on-sight junglism. Alongside a mix representing the past, present and future of its catalogue, founder Harmony shares the secret of the label’s success with Ben Hindle

To say that Deep Jungle has become one of the jungle scene’s premier labels in under five years would be an understatement. Since pretty much...

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Paradox: the numbers game

Three decades and nearly 200 records into his career, jungle maverick Paradox is still breaking new ground, and earning new fans in the process. Ben Hindle speaks to him about using an old Amiga computer for his productions, keeping the funk in his breakbeat samples, and his dedication to performing live

“At the moment, I’m just trying to think of ways to bankrupt my distributor,” says Dev Pandya, his face plastered with a schoolboy grin. While...

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Metalheadz launches new non-d&b label, HeadzState

Legendary drum & bass record label Metalheadz has announced a new imprint, HeadzState, which will deal with tunes on a different tip to its decades-spanning...