digital staff writer and freelance journalist

Olivia Stock is DJ Mag’s digital staff writer. She previously worked as a freelance journalist covering alternative music and culture across print and digital. Her writing can be seen in DIY Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, The Forty-Five, LICKS Mag, and others. Olivia was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the UK’s largest student music magazine, The Mic, as well as working on a freelance basis for a variety of independent record labels and PR firms.

Selections: Oldyungmayn
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Selections: Oldyungmayn

In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Oldyungmayn spotlights experimental hip-hop, woozy shoegaze, industrial techno and more

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Selections: Rachiid Paralyzing
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Selections: Rachiid Paralyzing

In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Colombia’s Rachiid Paralyzing spotlights tracks “with a unique and exceptional level of composition”, from breathless 2-step and techno, to intricate IDM, breaks and ambient

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Recognise: RIOT CODE
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Recognise: RIOT CODE

Alongside a storming Recognise mix that capture’s RIOT CODE’s past, present and future sounds, Oliver Grant speaks to Olivia Stock about going solo, navigating the techno scene as a trans artist, and what the future holds

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Sailing into the Future: 20 Years of Armada Music
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Sailing into the Future: 20 Years of Armada Music

With offices across the globe and genre-defining hits coming out of its ears, Armada Music has evolved to become the biggest independent dance label in the world. As the Dutch imprint celebrates 20 years of existence, DJ Mag’s Olivia Stock meets up with co-founders Armin van Buuren and Maykel Piron during ADE and visits the Armada offices to discover the secrets to the success of this slick electronic music operation

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Selections: Slauson Malone 1
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Selections: Slauson Malone 1

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, New York-based multidisciplinary musician Slauson Malone 1 spotlights acoustic oddities, ambient gems, breakneck singeli, cello jazz and post-jungle weapons

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Fresh Kicks 204: Fafi Abdel Nour
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Fresh Kicks 204: Fafi Abdel Nour

Syria-born, Groningen-raised Fafi Abdel Nour channels the melody, warmth and drama of '90s house music into his radiant Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Olivia Stock about family, embracing his queerness through dance music, and nurturing safe spaces for young ravers

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“No frills, just house”: inside Defected’s sparkling Eden Ibiza season finale in San Antonio
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“No frills, just house”: inside Defected’s sparkling Eden Ibiza season finale in San Antonio

As two long-running bastions of Ibiza, it’s fair to assume that Defected’s Fridays residency at San Antonio’s Eden are a match made in house music heaven. Just to be sure, though, DJ Mag’s Olivia Stock heads to the Ibiza superclub for 2023’s season closing party — a glorious celebration of their motto — "house music all-life long" — and 20 years of the legendary label on the island

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Fresh Kicks 203: ohmydais
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Fresh Kicks 203: ohmydais

East London’s ohmydais records a mix of “cool, fast, sexy breaks and high energy bangers” for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Olivia Stock about cutting her teeth in the Nottingham scene, finding her sound, uplifting friends, and her brand new collective party series

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