Music

Record stores in London, Bucharest, Barcelona and Montreal will be taking part. Move the Record is back for a four-week stretch this July, aiming to support independent record stores. The initiative was founded in 2020 as a response to the economic precarity that the pandemic created, with independent record stores facing uncertainty. This year, four six-hour-long broadcasts from a number of record stores will be streaming in order to encourage music fans to […]

A new documentary about the rise of techno is premiering next month as part of the Manchester International Festival (MIF). 'Laurent Garnier: Off The Record' charts the genre's rise through the eyes of the French DJ and production hero. Directed by Gabin Rivoire, the movie chronicles how techno spread through the world, focusing on Garnier's role in the nascent scenes of his native Paris and Manchester during the 1990s, when […]

With increasing appetites for old, ‘undiscovered’ music, reissue labels have seen a boom in recent years. Running a reissue label is a tender, laborious process, with extraordinary stories of finding lost artists and documenting a release’s context. But it’s also a process ripe for misappropriation, and with changing music markets, artists risk being treated unfairly. DJMAG explores the popularity of vinyls and reissue labels in the digital world and what […]