Harold Heath

Chicago’s Trax Records released some of the most influential records in house history, but decades later, many of the artists behind them are still waiting to be paid. Harold Heath investigates the long and complicated history of one of house music’s most infamous labels

Fourteen of Moodyman's albums reviewed

The title of Spaces Of Silence refers to Belgian producer Tour-Maubourg’s tinnitus and this album is thematically based around the ideas of noise and silence...

A year ago we published a series of articles about artists who had removed their music from Spotify. We caught up with some of them to see if their views, or situation, had changed over the last 12 months.

2022 was a massive year for Patrick Topping. Alongside global shows and a prolific run of releases, his Trick label hosted a hugely successful debut DC-10 Ibiza residency over the summer. Here, he chats to Harold Heath about his road to success, sobriety, his DJ Mag Best of British Best DJ award win, and more️...

Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff were a pair of producers/engineers/musicians, best known for their synth work, engineering and production on Stevie Wonder’s peerless 1970s run of albums....

Josh Doherty, the half of Posthuman who does press, is in fine form for our phone interview, having just made the 36-hour return journey from his I Love Acid US tour...

Ever wondered why Helena Hauff, Shackleton or Crooked Man aren’t on social media? Can an artist survive without social media? We thought we’d ask them to find out…

The funding of independent radio stations is always precarious, but the current cost-of-living and energy crises threaten their survival. Following the shuttering of Worldwide FM and Bristol’s SWU FM, we look at the challenges facing these beloved cultural lifelines

Is it too easy to bemoan the loss of authenticity? Or does it exist lurking beneath the piles of cash? Harold Heath reminisces, discusses, and considers in this month’s column the lost honesty of dance music.

From the most inauspicious of beginnings – a discarded remix project – came one of dance music’s most distinctive anthems: Altern 8’s ‘Infiltrate 202'...

Spiral Tribe were ‘90s Britain’s hardest hardcore techno crew – a travelling party troupe of anti-authoritarian acid-adventurers, and a scourge of the establishment...

Since 1990, Dave Lee’s Z Records has been a loved and trusted source for some of the best soulful music worldwide. Harold Heath chats with Lee to explore the label’s legendary catalogue and learn how it has adapted, persevered, and excelled through the shifting tides of the music industry over the past three decades...

The latest installment in the prestigious DJ-Kicks series is from DJ, musician and vocalist Jessy Lanza....

After being diagnosed with ADHD and suspected autism earlier this year, DJ Mag writer Harold Heath began to wonder: is there a particularly high number of neurodivergent people in the scene? .