Now live in the Beatport mobile app, Track ID helps DJs identify music in real time, from pitch-shifted blends and remixes to sweaty club recordings and festival-sized ID chaos. Beatport has launched Track ID, a new music discovery feature inside the Beatport mobile app that helps DJs identify tracks in real time, even when the booth is [...]
Barbara Tucker, Curtis McClain, DJ Jazzy Jeff and DJ Slugo are among the special guest DJs and performers at this year’s Chosen Few Picnic and Music Festival, running for its 36th glorious year in Chicago. Returning to Jackson Park on July 11 2026, the Chosen Few Picnic and House Music Festival claims an “authentic, unbroken lineage” [...]
North America's biggest week in electronic music approaches. Here's what you need to know. Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield has just declared this week as Detroit Techno Week. From May 20th through 26th, the Motor City will be awash with house, techno, electro and more as the international music community arrives for not just Movement [...]
** This was first published in Mixmag on September 20 2025 The Detroit house maestro marked the first-ever Mixmag Lab Bali with a three-hour set The Mixmag Lab is our live event where we showcase the finest DJs direct from our world famous office party, and elsewhere across the globe. On Saturday, September 13, we [...]
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made. One of the signature tracks of the early Chicago house music era has been inducted in to the National Recording Registry. Jamie Principle‘s “Your Love” — the 1986 [...]
A movement born from New York dance floors found its voice in Amsterdam. Elliott Matos didn’t just build parties—he built GDE, a cultural force that reconnected house music with its queer, Black, and underground roots at Amsterdam Dance Event. Introduction: The Story Behind the Spotlight There are two histories of house music. One lives [...]
At Winter Music Conference 2026, it wasn’t just the DJs turning heads at the Beatport Live pool parties on the Kimpton EPIC Hotel rooftop – L-Acoustics DJ’s immersive spatial audio system had crowds stopping in their tracks. For 40 years, the global disc jockey and electronic dance music community has flocked to southern Florida [...]
A curated snapshot of the groove, stories and friendships currently shaping the sound of the legendary Danny Tenaglia. From his formative years behind the decks in Brooklyn and Miami to becoming a central figure in the global house and techno movement, Danny Tenaglia has spent decades shaping what underground dance music looks and feels like. [...]
Ahead of its opening in June, Pacha New York – the newly rebranded Williamsburg venue formerly known as Brooklyn Mirage – has unveiled a “comprehensive” safety plan. It follows several safety-related road bumps hit by Brooklyn Mirage during its short tenure. In 2023, two people were found dead and another was allegedly kidnapped after leaving the venue, leading [...]
Motherhood massively impacts the careers of women across the working world, and in the predominantly freelance landscape of DJing, it can be particularly challenging. As conversations on the subject become more widespread, and the push for change gains momentum, Becca Inglis explores the myriad issues faced by DJs, and meets the women creating and discovering [...]