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'{{Use British English|date=October 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2012}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Mixmag | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Mixmag (magazine).jpg | image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) --> | image_alt = | image_caption = August 2009 cover of ''Mixmag'' | editor = Andrew Barsoum, London 01/01/1985 Richard Miller Huddersfield 17/12/1984 | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = [[Music magazine]] | frequency = Monthly | circulation = 20,053 {{small|(1 January 2011{{spaced ndash}} 31 December 2011)}}<ref name="ABC">Database (undated). [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503102203/http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=6901 "Mixmag" (archive.org)]. [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]]. Retrieved 28 October 2012.</ref> | publisher = | founder = | founded = {{start date and age|1983}} | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1983|2|1|df=yes}} | company = [[Development Hell Ltd]] {{small|(since 2005)}} | country = | based = 90-92 [[Pentonville Road]]<br />[[London]], [[England]], United Kingdom | language = English | website = {{URL|http://mixmag.net/}} | issn = | oclc = 780074556 }} '''''Mixmag''''' is a British [[electronic dance]] and [[Nightclub|clubbing]] magazine, published in [[London]], [[England]]. Launched in 1982, the magazine covers dance events, and reviews music and club nights. ==History== 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 featured American music group [[Shalamar]].<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7352000/7352383.stm</ref> When [[house music]] began in the 1980s editor and DJ [[Dave Seaman]] turned the magazine from a newsletter for DJs to a magazine covering all dance music and club culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/mbid-95b90fe1-321d-4d53-bb83-05a8aaafc4ac|title=A history of dance music {{!}} Music|last=|first=|date=|website=the Guardian|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> ''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 mid-1990s. After a dip in sales in 2003,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/oct/03/popandrock1|title=The road to Wigan Pier|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=2003-10-03|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> it was then bought by Development Hell, the company that also owned ''[[The Word (magazine)|The Word]]'' music magazine, in 2005.<ref name=independent>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Tim|title=Mixmag – It's Not Just About Drugs and Bikini-Clad Women – How 'Mixmag' Turned the Tables on Its Doubters and Made Its 25th Birthday |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/mixmag--its-not-just-about-drugs-and-bikiniclad-women-808598.html|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=14 April 2008 | accessdate = 28 October 2012}}</ref> In 2007, Nick DeCosemo became editor.<ref name=independent/> In 2001, the magazine teamed up with [[Virgin Records]] to release a double album titled ''B!g Tunes''.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} In 2012, [[The Guardian]] collaborated with Mixmag on a survey of British drug-taking habits.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/15/respondents-guardian-mixmag-drug-survey|title=Guardian/Mixmag drug survey reveals a generation happy to chance it|last=Topping|first=Alexandra|date=2012-03-14|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> {{portal|Journalism|Pop music}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{official website|http://mixmag.net}} * {{Discogs label}} * Geoghegan, Kev (18 April 2008). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7352000/7352383.stm "Mixmag Celebrates 25 Years of Clubbing"]. ''[[Newsbeat]]''. {{British contemporary music magazines}} [[Category:1983 establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:British bi-monthly magazines]] [[Category:British music magazines]] [[Category:Dance music magazines]] [[Category:English-language magazines]] [[Category:London magazines]] [[Category:Magazines established in 1983]] [[Category:Magazines established in 2009]] [[Category:Media and communications in the London Borough of Islington]] [[Category:British monthly magazines]]'