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Carl Cox has been revealed as the winner of the Highest Techno category in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. The British icon came in at No. 62 overall.

Unofficially known as the Nicest Man In Dance Music, Carl has taken a bit of time out to do other things besides DJing this year.

“I’ve been running the Carl Cox Motorsport team,” he told DJ Mag after scooping the Highest Techno gong again. And one look at the group’s Facebook page suggests they’ve had some great successes of late.

Claptone has been revealed as the winner of the Highest House category in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. The DJ/producer came in at No. 69 overall.

Melodic masked marauder is a new entry to the poll, after releasing his popular mix series, ‘The Masquerade Mixes’, over the course of 2017. Claptone also adorned Ibiza airport with nine super-sized masks to mark the beginning of his world tour, which hit dance music’s most prolific events including Melt! Festival in Germany, Elrow in Ibiza, Tomorrowland in Belgium and Street Parade in Switzerland.

BBC Amplify, a new conference for newcomers to the music industry, is set to take over from 6th through 8th October at London’s Excel and is the biggest music business event of its kind to ever hit the capital.

Marking 10 years of BBC Music Introducing, the enormous new event will feature over 100 sessions and 250 expert speakers, including Chase & Status and Annie Mac, with a range of panels, workshops and discussion on offer over the jam-packed three-day programme.

Fort Romeau's Cin Cin Records continues to go from strength-to-strength and for the label's 8th release the label has laid on a divine doubleheader from Melbourne's STATUE and Ara Koufax, and we're really excited to premiering Koufax's 'Natural States'.

Australian duo Ara Koufax (Luke Neher & Sam Gill) have been making club-facing house since 2014 when their track 'Brenda' appeared on the Cut Copy-curated compilation 'Oceans Apart'.

The Australian duo are back with two new tracks on Fort Romeau's Cin Cin Records.

Back in May, we announced the debut of Best of North America awards, allowing us to highlight the hard-working acts that have helped the underground thrive in 2017.

We spent months hashing out the nominations in the office, then left it to you, our readers, to vote online.

The people have spoken. The votes tallied. Here are the first-ever winners of DJ Mag’s Best of North America Awards...

International Music Summit (IMS) Ibiza has added another 20 speakers to their roster for this year's event, set to kick off from 24th through 26th May at the Hard Rock Hotel on the White Isle. 

DJs including Nicole Moudaber, Loco Dice, and DVS1 will be joining the speakers list for 2017, alongside leaders from Ultra Records, Playstation, Big Beat Records and Warner Music.

Loud shirts, branded snap-caps and enough big-room rollers to bring down a fighter jet, Solardo are the most unstoppable force in UK tech-house at the moment. Born after a chance meeting in Manchester between an ex-dubstep pioneer and an aspiring house producer, the duo suddenly found themselves dropping tunes onto Skream's Of Unsound Mind label and Jamie Jones' Hot Creations while going viral online left, right and centre. With their Solardo Sessions touring the UK, we checked in with the boys ahead of their appearance for us at The Raleigh Hotel in Miami later this month...

By now the history of electronic music and its journey into clubs, concert venues, stadiums and homes worldwide is a well-established narrative. It’s a story that typically includes the same names along the way: Giorgio Moroder here, Patrick Cowley there; Vangelis on the one hand, Derrick May on the other.

DJ Mag’s Miami Pool Party takes place at The Raleigh on Wednesday 22nd March, and the first wave line-up has just landed.

Marshmello and Oliver Heldens have been announced to play at the party, which is a unique opportunity to see some of the world’s biggest DJs up close and personal.

They’ll be joined by artists from across the dance music spectrum, with Dannic, Billy Kenny, Darius Syrossian, Franky Rizardo, Lauren Lane, Sam Divine and Solardo completing the first wave line-up. More DJs are set to be announced soon.

Tickets are now on sale for DJ Mag’s Miami Pool Party at The Raleigh on Wednesday 22nd March.

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Marshmello and Oliver Heldens have been announced to play at the party, which is a unique opportunity to see some of the world’s biggest DJs up close and personal.