After a life-changing epiphany at Nevada's Burning Man festival, dance music icon Carl Cox is back with a bang, with an incredible new two-CD mix for Global Underground, 'Black Rock Desert', sonically documenting his sand-swept experiences. DJmag discovers how the isolated desert festival has become his new creative muse…

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The Second Coming: the finest d&b seduction

M-Audio's CX8 monitors are a triumph in both sound and design

Milan's mischievous crunk house tag team Crookers are primed to be the next dance music superstars. Prior to a momentous gig at London's top dance fest Get Loaded In The Park, in August, and a forthcoming debut album, DJmag collars the Italian pranksters to find out how they do things, Crookers style...

Poker Flat boss Steve Bug answers your questions...

The red pill or the blue pill?! Rocha & Lewinger's 'Into The Matrix' covermount CD for DJmag is a blistering, funky techno juggernaut from a DJ duo caught up in the addictive powers of DJing and producing.

The Andy Warhol of dance music and self-proclaimed Mayor of Williamsburg, Larry Tee injects attitude into electro-house with his new album