Best of British

DJ Mag is a UK music mag — born and bred. So every year, as a counterweight to the international Top 100 DJs poll, we like to celebrate what’s going on on our own doorstep.

Voting in our annual Best of British poll is now complete! An essential landmark on the UK electronic music calendar, the results will be announced at our B.O.B party at London’s Heaven later tonight, and we need you there to celebrate with us — final tickets right here. 

The event will feature a headline set from the winner of the Best DJ category, who will be revealed during the awards ceremony at 11:30pm sharp.

Just when you thought our Best Of British Awards party couldn't get any bigger... we've gone and added more names!

DJ Mag is delighted to welcome three more incredible artists to this year's insane B.O.B bill, with the party kicking off this Wednesday 16th December at Heaven nightclub in London. 

Legendary Glasgow DJ/production duo SLAM are set to join us for the evening, following a recent track premiere with the mag — listen to their new club anthem 'Make You Move' here.

Fabio & Grooverider, the drum & bass pairing whose sets at Rage were the catalyst for the birth of jungle/drum & bass in the early '90s, are to be presented with the Outstanding Contribution award at DJ Mag's Best Of British event on Wednesday 16^th December.

Ralph Lawson is one of the UK house scene’s most versatile and reliable performers. Whether he is rocking the house at Back to Basics, running his iconic 2020 Vision label, performing live with 2020 Soundsystem or rocking clubs across the globe - Lawson is an artist who is always on point.

Working with a hangover the day after Best of British Awards Party is always difficult, so rising with the knowledge that Fabric, our venue last night, is tonight facing a review of its license tonight following a string of reported drug-related deaths over the past three years adds a dampener to what was a hugely successful one-off Wednesday night at the club.

In some ways, it’s like a certain department store unveiling their Christmas advert. Except with far better music and far less likely to make you puke. For his fans, Jackmaster’s annual free ‘Mastermix’ is the first sign that Yuletide is nigh, as Jack Revill unpacks what’s in his box — which isn’t cute penguins but the high grade house, techno and disco that makes his club sets burn like figgy puddings in kerosene.

It’s Friday night, in Manchester, and in the DJ booth at Sankeys, Darius Syrossian has just dropped the 'Underground Goodies Mix' of Cajmere feat Dajae’s ‘Brighter Days’.

“I love that tune because the bassline grabs you and drags you in,” says Darius, who’s been resident DJ at Tribal Sessions, the Friday night house and techno party that re-started at the venue in 2013. “And the drums on that track are perfect.”