Since 1978, the Technics SL-1200MK2 was the direct-driven platter du jour of DJ’s and venues the world over. Many callouses were born from hours of minute pitch control adjustments. The SL-1200 was once described by music journalists as “the most important musical instrument of the last two and a half decades”. Yet, despite this...

We have a quick chat with Aussie DJ Rachel Andrews, top 10 finalist in EMI’s ‘She Can DJ’ project and resident at ‘Motel’ Club in Melbourne. M: So Rachel, how did you first get into DJ’ing? Rachel: I was working behind the bar at a club in Canberra and used to harass the DJ to show me how it all worked. I seemed to pick it up...

“Re-re-wind, when the crowd say Bo-Selecta!”, warbled Craig David from somewhere between his designer-stubbled cheekbones back in 1999, whilst fending off amorous advances from hordes of tweens. ‘Selecta’ was, back in the UK, a slang term for a deejay. Sure, there are plenty of terms for the bouncing, headphone-clad fist-pumping...

..said Fatboy in 1998. It seems this has also held true for the EDM scene. We’ve weathered electro, tech house, complextro and are currently surrounded by Skrillexicans, hands raised to the sky in their fervent admiration of anything the prolific Mr Moore touches. But where to from here? What does the future of EDM hold? With artists...