''Muzik'' was a British
dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance musi ...
magazine published by
IPC Media
TI Media Ltd. (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of it ...
from June 1995 to August 2003.
''Muzik'' was created by two former ''
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. In January 2001, it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publicatio ...
'' journalists,
Push and Ben Turner. Push was the editor of ''Muzik'' from its launch until he left the magazine in 1998, at which point Turner took over as editor. The title was subsequently edited by Dave Fowler, then Chris Elwell-Sutton for less than a year, before
Conor McNicholas, who went on to edit ''
NME
''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming and culture website, bimonthly magazine, and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a "Rock music, rock inkie", the ''NME'' would be ...
'', took over.
Aimed at serious dance music fans rather than weekend clubbers, ''Muzik''s writers included a number of well-known
DJs, including
Kris Needs,
Rob da Bank,
Spoony,
Terry Farley, Bob Jones, Jonty Skrufff and Dave Mothersole. The magazine sold over 50,000 copies a month at its peak, but was closed down by IPC Media just one issue short of its 100th edition.
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at
Internet Archive
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Online PDF Archive*
Muzik' at
Discogs
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1995 establishments in the United Kingdom
2003 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Dance music magazines
Defunct music magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines disestablished in 2003
Magazines established in 1995
Magazines published in London
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