but regardless of whatever commercials, award shows, or genre-bending collaborations DJs participated in, their chops, and genius, are best displayed in live mixes. Here are 20 of the year's best.

From the beginning, DJing was the most important aspect of hip-hop culture. The genre and culture were born from the mid-70s boom with underground DJs spinning funk and disco break loops at ...

This month’s roundup of DJ mixes covers a range of styles and moods. New Yorkers Volvox and Aurora Halal respectively channel dark, foreboding forms of techno. Kornél Kovács moves in pursuit ...

The best DJs play a curatorial ... Thanks to the way that DJ culture has spread online, you could go an entire year listening only to mixes and you might still come away with a truer understanding ...

Here we’ve waded through the vast amount of DJ mixes released so far this year to find the best, both live performances and pre-recorded, highlighting which artists you should be keeping your ...

As with our Best Tracks of the Year and Best Albums of the Year features ... has been no different. On this mix, resident DJ Thee Gobbs features exclusive cuts from SA producer Caiiro’s new offering, ...

For the electronic music fan, there's never any shortage of new mixes to dig into. But which are actually worth your time? To help you uncover the best of the best, we've gone to work hunting out ...

A truly exceptional DJ mix isn’t just about moving a crowd ... from the most enduring to the most fleeting. This year’s best mixes did all these things and more, whether moving our feet ...

Like the best ambient music ... but the Brooklyn-based DJ’s recent mix for Juanita’s NYC, a mutual-aid project rooted in the city’s dance-music underground, swaps club energies for jazz ...

Mike Servito - Juanita’s Mix 025 A member of The Bunker collective in New York, Mike Servito is best known for his raw, tactile DJ sets that combine acid house, techno and electro. Bangers ...

In this Fresh Kicks mix for DJ Mag, he let's a bunch of unreleased music unfurl alongside ... Piano house is up there with the best - and critically, most euphoric - house subgenres, and this hour ...

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