March 2007 issue

Mixmag styles itself as, "the world's biggest dance music and clubbing magazine," with a circulation of 41,757 and a readership of 304,000.^[1] Having begun 1982 in the United Kingdom, it covers dance events, and reviews music and club nights. Mixmag has coined terms and phrases to describe genres and conventions within dance music. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Mixmag, in association with their original publishing company, DMC Publishing, released a series of CDs under the heading "Mixmag Live". Mixmag was sold to EMAP in the mid-1990s before being bought by Development Hell in December 2005. EMAP plc (LSE: EMA) is a British media company, specialising in the production of magazines, and the organization of business events and conferences. ... Development hell is media-industry jargon for a film, television screenplay, or computer game[1] (or sometimes just a concept or idea) getting stuck in development and never going into production. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mixmag is the world’s biggest dance music and club culture magazine in terms of sales and reputation. The first issue was printed on February 1st 1983 as a 16-page black and white magazine published by DMC — the DJ mailout service. The first cover was Shalamar, the first editor DMC’s Tony Prince and the first advertiser was a company called Technics Panasonic. Hewett, Watley, and Daniel Shalamar was an American musical group of the 1970s and 1980s that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey. ...

When house music began, editor and DJ Dave Seaman turned the magazine from a newsletter for DJs to a magazine covering all dance music and club culture. Mixmag covered acid house, the subsequent rave era, the rise of superstar DJs and the Ibiza explosion. The magazine’s trusted and informed voice made it the number one authority on Britain’s emerging dance drug culture — BBC Newsnight and even the Home Office have turned to Mixmag. The magazine coined the terms superclub and trip hop and launched the world’s first legal DJ mix tapes, the Mixmag Live series. House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

Now in its third decade, Mixmag still covers the waterfront of dance music, reviewing the most upfront releases and clubs, talking to the biggest figures in clubland and covering the world’s most vibrant music culture.

Mixer magazine in the USA and 'Mixmag' in Russia have no connection to the UK magazine.

Mixmag carries a cover mix CD each month by a different DJ or artist. Recently these have included the likes of Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Erol Alkan, Tom Neville, Smokin' Jo, Ferry Corsten and DJ Touche. Several have become collectors items in their own right, fetching large sums on ebay. Richie Hawtin (born Richard Hawtin, June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit technos second wave of artists in the early 1990s. ... Sven Väth (sometimes Sven Vaeth), born October 26, 1964 near Frankfurt, Germany, is a DJ who has produced a large body of work since his career began in 1982. ... Erol Alkan is a London-based electro DJ of Turkish descent. ... Ferry Corsten (born December 4, 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is an early pioneer and producer of trance, in addition to being a world-renowned DJ and remixer. ... eBay headquarters in San Jose eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) eBay Inc. ...

The Development Hell era

Development Hell acquired Mixmag from EMAP ltd. in April 2005. The company also owns The Word music magazine. Development Hell relaunched Mixmag in May 2006 with a revamped design and the aim of appealing to a wider (both male and female) and older readership than had been targeted by EMAP. Editor Andrew Harrison told the Press Gazzette that staff had previously "focused the magazine very tightly on a young clubber, a very committed hardcore nutter clubber and we thought that wasn't necessarily the right way to go. Mixmag is now a magazine for the entire world of dance music, whether you like hard boshing music that's quite druggy, or chill out music, or you're someone like me who likes to keep in touch with the music but has grown out of clubbing. This idea that dance music is a kind of minority interest, a bit like ska, is wrong. The biggest album of last year was by the Scissor Sisters." The Word may mean: The Word (television) The Word (song) by The Beatles The Wørd, a recurring segument on Stephen Colberts The Colbert Report The Word (magazine) The Bible Ordet (aka The Word), the 1955 Danish film The Word (band) The Word & the Void This is a disambiguation...

In addition to the change in editorial tone, the relaunched Mixmag features a fashion section, larger size and improved production values.

Trivia

• Mixmag is mentioned in the film Human Traffic, in which the main character of the film pretends to be a Mixmag writer (Tony Truman) to blag his way into a nightclub.

Human Traffic is a 1999 film directed and written by Justin Kerrigan. ... Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...

External links

• Mixmag website
• Mixmag (label) - Discogs listing of CDs given away with Mixmag magazine
• MySpace.com/Mixmagmagazine Mixmag's MySpace page

Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about music recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and certain bootleg or off-label releases. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.mixmag.net/media.cfm