Clubs

What can you expect from a house night in the Middle East? Ask anyone to comment or hazard a guess and their response is likely to involve a number of presumptions: undeniably commercial names, inaccessible hotel nightclubs, painfully overpriced drinks.

Manchester Mecca Sankeys has started 2013 with a fresh look, with Fiesta and Recentes breathing new life into Fridays and Saturdays at the city's beloved superclub...

What happens on tour doesn't always stay on tour. Aside from making his name as one of Europe's most wanted house talents worldwide over the past 12 months, the Diynamic boss is also known as being one of the most playful in the game. Laid back, cheerful and always up for a laugh, Hamburg's Bosnian-born boogie-loving selector is regarded as an affable gentle giant by those who know him, so we asked him to spill the beans...

Laurent Garnier's last-ever London Live Booth Session (LBS) at Egg is one way to warm up a bitter winter evening...

There’s a charming lack of pretension to Corsica Studios. It’s a maze of corridors, a pair of dark rooms filled with little more than speakers, smoke and sweaty bodies, a bar that’s never less than nine-deep and a chilly smoking area. And it’s all tucked under a railway arch, in Elephant & Castle – a place that makes south Detroit look like a Babylonian garden.

This month DJ Mag rolled down to the South Coast to see one of the leading labels in drum and bass, Critical Records, at Brighton's Life Club.

Fabric's longest-standing d&b party dips into its little black book to unleash an astonishing amount of bass on its 150th inning...

The Warehouse Project, The BBC and Manchester UTD... The Rainy City has no shortage of institutions succeeding on an international stage. Existing as the UK's third largest urban area, commonly it's misconceived as our second largest. It boasts a club scene that's creeping up on the capital's as it grows in size and stature. Love Dose — a collaborative project involving the promoters of Basement and For No Reason — is helping.

Fed up of 'One Pound Fish'? Glad to get 'Gangnam Style' out your head? Lose your mind at one of these...

F**k Gary Barlow. If anyone in Britain deserves an OBE, it's Lars Sandberg, the great Scot who just keeps on giving. Silver-haired member of the British house and techno old guard, he's improved with age like the fine champagne of his Francois Dubois moniker, more so through his work as Funk D'Void on Slam's Soma Records and more recently Outpost Recordings.

DJ Mag hit the Amsterdam Dance Event where the Dutch spirit of libertarianism has helped turn it's DJs, producers and clubs into a world beating force...

As one of the final dates in the festival calendar, the latest addition to Croatia’s coastal party scene has promised a fine coda to the summer since its mouth-watering lineup dropped at the start of the year. Held in the same spot as older sibling Outlook, which celebrated its fifth year the week before Dimensions opened its doors, it’s been billed as a more highbrow offshoot – in place of Fat Freddy’s Drop on the lineup stands Nicolas Jaar, Skream gives way to Carl Craig and there was nary a New Era cap in sight.

Starting out as a musical side-project of Berlin's digital arts festival Transmediale, CTM.13 looks forward to its 14th edition this month. Hinged on the theme The Golden Age, it'll use electronic expression to challenge contemporary conceptions in a constantly progressing world driven by mass media. Have we ever had it so good? Things ain't that simple...

XOYO probably isn’t the most lavish club you’ve ever frequented. In fact, it’s pretty much the opposite, with a diminutive smoking area and two fairly...

We've all had a memorable family holiday. Often remembered for all the wrong reasons. This correspondent will never forget one week spent in Herodsfoot (Cornwall). The only attraction was a red phone box; it rained constantly and the highlight was my sister yelping with ecstatic joy when someone landed on Old Kent Road, playing Monopoly.

Despite struggling to gain a meaningful foothold in an over-saturated clubbing circuit during its first 12 months, Motek is making moves to become one of the capital's leading forces.

Forget the new-year detox, there is only one way to get through the January blues - keep on raving! You can use this month's top 5 nights as a starting point for your January adventures. Remember, sleep is for the weak. See you on the dancefloors!

We're all aware of UK clubland's biggest churches. The Ministries, Fabrics and Sankeys, where we find ourselves throwing shapes each weekend – our eyes saucers, faces a contorted mess.

Initially hailed as the prince of chillwave (cringingly) by the music press, South Carolina's Chaz Bundnick – known to switched on heads as Toro Y Moi – has kept moving, refusing to be left behind by the shifting tides of today's generic trends, feeding elements of funk, house, garage, r&b, disco and even punk into his ever-evolving pop philosophy in recent years.

Formed out of 12 years of friendship, Jimmy Edgar and Machinedrum's production partnership makes perfect sense.