MIXMAG 2014
EDITOR
Mixmag was the world’s first dance music magazine and has been the market
leader ever since. The first issue was printed on 1 February 1983 as a 16-page
black-and-white magazine published by Disco Mix Club, a DJ mailout service. The
first cover was the American music group Shalamar, the first editor DMC’s Tony
Prince and the first advertiser was a company called Technics Panasonic.
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. It covered acid house, the subsequent rave era, the rise of superstar DJs
and Ibiza[clarification needed]. The magazine claims to have coined the terms
superclub and trip hop and to have launched the first legal DJ mix tapes, the
Mixmag Live series.[2] Later Mixmag, in association with its original publishing
company, DMC Publishing, released a series of CDs under the “Mixmag Live”
heading.
The magazine, which reached a circulation of up to 70,000 copies during the
height of the popularity of acid house, was later sold to EMAP Ltd. in the mid1990s, and then bought by Development Hell, the company that also owns The
Word music magazine, in 2005.[3] Development Hell relaunched the magazine
in May 2006 with a revamped design. Editor Andrew Harrison told the Press
Gazette[citation needed] 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.” In 2007, Nick DeCosemo
became editor.[3]
In 2001, the magazine teamed up with Virgin Records to release a double album
titled B!g Tunes. The album included forty-two dance songs selected “the best”
by the magazine.
I am Nurul Atikah Bte Azman. I’m 20 years
old. Study at University Selangor (UNISEL)
in Dip Digital Graphic Designer. I was born
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job with this graphics field. Now I realize
that the field is very extensive graphics. and
one magazine editor. I am extremely proud
of what has been successful dreamed. This
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prepared almost a month to complete.
In May 2013 Mixmag announced a strategic partnership with primary ticket
outlet Skiddle, seeing Skiddle delivering a ticket sales and event listing solution
to the Mixmag.net on the one hand and Mixmag providing Skiddle with additional
event listings.[4] [5]
In addition to the change in editorial tone, the relaunched magazine features
a fashion section, larger size and, according to the magazine[2] improved
production values.
It carries a covermount mix CD each month by a different DJ or artist. These have
included Deadmau5, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Erol Alkan, Tom Neville, Smokin’
Jo, Ferry Corsten and DJ Touche. Soulwax released This Is Radio Soulwax into the
magazine in 2006.
The Mixmag YouTube channel compliments the monthly magazine with interviews,
tutorials and DJ sets.
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