DJ Mag

Ricardo Villalobos
The most influential DJ/producer in contemporary minimal techno, Chilean-German Ricardo Villalobos consolidated his popularity in 2009. Villalobos' tripped out, extended sets were a regu...
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Chuckie
You don't need anything more than a track like 'Let The Bass Kick' - Chuckie's ghetto tribal anthem - to make a good year, but the Cr2 released monster is just part of a killer 12 months ...
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Sharam
Sharam could be the next Sergio Leone. Well, maybe. As if producing and DJing around the world wasn't enough to keep him busy, he elected to direct the video for his last track. A film ob...
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Marcel Woods
'Exotic' would be a fairly good way to describe the last 12 months in the life of Marcel Woods. "I've done a lot in Asia this year - China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia," ...
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Lisa Lashes
Lisa Lashes' schedule is both impressive and punishing - and that's not a cheeky reference to her latest single 'Bondage and Whips'. Over the latter part of the summer she spent just two ...
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Moonbeam
Their name might sound like some pony psy-trance act from the trippy hippy atrocities of the mid-'90s, but Russian duo Moonbeam are well deserving of their debut landing in this year's To...
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Rank 1
Dutch trance jock Piet Bervoets (pictured) flies solo as Rank 1 when DJing, but for live gigs he's joined by studio partner Benno De Goeji, who he's been working with for ten years. Piet ...
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Sébastien Léger
Sébastien Léger has been at the top of his game for a decade now - respected by his contemporaries and idolised by those who worship at the altar of pleasure-seeking dance music. Howeve...
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Marcus Schossow
In 2009, Marcus Schossow managed to successfully navigate his public persona away from 'that chap who ruffled the feathers of Deadmau5' (in 2007 Schossow, along with some other wags, came...
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Steve Lawler
"I think the recession is a positive thing in some respects because it drives more creativity," says Steve Lawler, giving a positive view amid the gloom. "This recession and the one befor...
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