572 DJMAG.COM LIVING & BREATHING DANCE MUSIC! DJMAG.COM No.572 August 2017 £4.95 GLASTO-FANTASTICO! EIGHT-PAGE SPECIAL ON THE MOTHER OF ALL FESTIVALS JASPER JAMES * MUSIC GENERATION NEXT DJ HARVEY * CLUBS THE ENIGMA MACHINE ELECTRO MAGNETIC FORCE * TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY ORIGINAL ELECTRO IS BACK! ERIC PRYDZ ON HIS FIRST IBIZA RESIDENCY * FLYING LOTUS ON HIS NEW FILM PORTABLE PARTY POWER EASY-TO-CARRY DJ SET-UPS DON LETTS THE DON DADA No. 572 August 2017 £4.95 GOING ROGUE FROM GLASGOW TO GLASTO B.TRAITS, RIVA STARR, MASTERS AT WORK, FRITZ KALKBRENNER, MWX, DANIEL MILLER PLUS: ADDICTIVE TV, BILL CONVERSE, GIORGIA ANGIULI, OC & VERDE, EAST END DUBS... cover_1.indd 1 14/07/2017 14:34 THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT WWW.AFROJACK.COM Untitled-1 1 16/06/2017 12:40 DJMag2017_UK-1_v1.indd 1 16-06-17 10:17 CONTENTS 026 RENEGADE MASTER From his hometown of Glasgow to the backstage at Glasto, Jackmaster takes DJ Mag on a whirlwind tour to talk temptation, Numbers and becoming a star... Cover shot: BRIAN SWEENEY FEATURES 079 DJ HARVEY 035 GENERATION NEXT Glasgow spinner Jasper James on stepping out from his father’s shadow... 038 GLASTO FANTASTICO! All the action from the UK’s biggest fest, including Arcadia, Block9 and Jezza... 051 ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE Original electro beats are back in a big way, DJ Mag investigates... 073 DON LETTS 056 A PIECE OF PRYDZ DJ Mag snatches a rare chat with Eric Prydz about his debut Ibiza residency... 062 CLASSICAL CONDITIONING 036 JASPER JAMES We investigate the growing world of electronic-classical collaboration... 067 PORTABLE PARTY POWER 038 GLASTONBURY All the info you need to make sure you can rave it up on the move... 073 THE DON DADA We sit down with legendary dub reggae 101 LOVE INTERNATIONAL DJ and fi lm-maker, Don Letts... 079 THE ENIGMA MACHINE DJ Harvey is back at Pikes Hotel in Ibiza as resident DJ and cultural co-ordinator... 010 COMIN’ UP Daniel Miller, B. Traits, Bill Converse, MWX, Bass Culture, Flying Lotus... 086 ON THE FLOOR WCD gets even bigger, going all night at EXIT, feeling the Love International... 117 MUSIC REVIEWS Hercules & Love Affair, Daphni, Biogen, Bambooman, Maya Jane Coles... 150 TECH OC & Verde, TORAIZ AS-1, Denon MC7000, 056 ERIC PRYDZ 160 TORAIZ AS-1 EVE Audio SC205 & TS108, Addictive TV... djmag.com 003 DJ Magazine Ltd PO Box 71897 London N1P 1HH 020 7686 6545 NEXT ISSUE OUT LIVING & BREATHING DANCE MUSIC! 31.08.17. Editorial Editor Carl Loben [email protected] Deputy Editor Adam Saville [email protected] Art Editor Martin Brown [email protected] Design Chris Royle [email protected] Clubs Editor Ben Hindle [email protected] Tech Editor Mick Wilson [email protected] Fashion Editor Helene Stokes [email protected] Albums Editor Felicity Martin [email protected] USA Editor Sarah Polonsky [email protected] Listings Editor Martin Guttridge-Hewitt [email protected] Digital Digital / Ibiza Editor Charlotte Lucy Cijffers [email protected] Deputy Digital Editor Rob McCallum [email protected] Head Of Digital Media Simon Kelly [email protected] Digital Media Exec Euan McGraw [email protected] GLASTO-FANTASTICO! Digital Media Asst Jon Dommett [email protected] I first went to Glastonbury before many DJ Mag readers Contributors were born. It was my introduction to the counter-culture Paul Clarke, Ben Murphy, Claire Hughes, Neil Kulkarni, Sherman, Ian McQuaid, Joe Roberts, in the late ‘80s, and where I had my rave epiphany. Richard Brophy, Found Sounds, Dan Reid, Zara Wladawsky, Larry Rostant, Oli Marlow, Ben Venturing out on a Saturday night, our crew came Arnold, Kristan J Caryl, Luke Pepper, Ben Osborne, Tim Stark, Kutski, Jonathan Burnip, Reiss across a soundsystem truck blaring out some of this De Bruin, Marc Rowlands, Sunil Chauhan, Leon Clarkson, Whisky Kicks, Ashley Zlatopolsky, new-fangled ‘rave music’. Dancing to repetitive beats Chris Davison, Stephen Flynn, Erin Sharoni, Dani Deahl, Anna Wall, Angus Thomas Paterson, Kirsty Allison, Morgan Jones, Chandler Shortlidge, Emma Gillett, Sirin Kale... under the stars suddenly made perfect sense, and I was convert. I’m not embarrassed that it was the late Guru Advertising Josh who was atop the truck that night, urging people to Sales & Marketing Director Heath Holmes [email protected] rave on to ‘Infinity’ and beyond. Everyone has to start Sales Manager Chris Blackhall [email protected] somewhere. Advertising Manager Iain McGoldrick [email protected] Glasto has changed a lot in the ensuing years, but is still one helluva place to party. I remember when the dance Managerial tent first came along in the mid-‘90s, and this becoming Publisher James Robertson the Dance Village in the early noughties. 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The company settled a dispute with the about the “noise” around SoundCloud’s thousands of DJ/producers — is not about to fold. Performing Rights Society (PRS) with the promise to profi tability. “The music you love on SoundCloud It had been reported in mid-July that SoundCloud pay royalties to creators, and has recently secured isn’t going away, the music you shared or uploaded only had enough money to survive for 50 more days. licensing deals with major labels. isn’t going away, because SoundCloud is not going This was after it laid off 40% of its workforce and The rumours about SoundCloud circulated after away,” he wrote. “Not in 50 days, not in 80 days closed down its London and San Francisco offi ces. it laid off 173 people. Disgruntled ex-employees or anytime in the foreseeable future. Your music is The news had prompted many DJ/producers to start spoke about the company’s alleged lack of funds, safe.