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10 tracks to go further into Todd Edwards - Part one
September 11, 2024
New Jersey garage experimentalist Todd Edwards is best known to the world as a Daft Punk collaborator, having worked with the French duo on two songs: Face...
10 songs to know MK - Part two
September 4, 2024
This is part two of my ode of Marc “MK” Kinchen, the Detroit house don and production innovator. 6) MK featuring Alana - Love Changes (Masters At Work - MK...
10 songs to know MK - Part one
August 26, 2024
There was a time, roughly 10 years ago, when half the songs in the UK’s pop chart sounded like the work of Marc “MK” Kinchen, after the Detroit producer’s...
Fine margins of genius: a Photek interview - part two
August 18, 2024
This is part two of my interview with Photek (aka Rupert Parkes), from 2019. You can read part one here. The interview first went out in October 2019, around...
Fine margins of genius: A Photek interview - part one
August 14, 2024
I’ve been thinking about how to cover Photek on this newsletter for a while. Rupert Parkes is one of my favourite artists, a producer of seemingly limitless...
A temperate sway: why Mood II Swing are house royalty
August 7, 2024
In a world of musical flash and blabber, Mood II Swing are the perfectly greased cog that keeps everything moving: not eye-catching, fashionable or...
4-Hero are jungle legends: part two of two
July 31, 2024
This is part two of my homage to 4-Hero. Part one can be read here. Last time out, we got to Parallel Universe, in 1994. After Parallel Universe, there...
4-Hero are jungle legends: part one of two
July 24, 2024
Not many musicians can claim to have been at the heart of a new style of music, still fewer to be integral to two; and basically only 4-Hero can say they...
Green Velvet: bad for the soul, good for the heart
July 17, 2024
There comes a time in most clubbers’ lives, typically about a couple of months into the nightlife honeymoon, when you realise that there is a dark, surreal...
A salute to Salute and their pop house True Magic
July 10, 2024
You know what kind of music no one makes any more? Pop house. By which I mean, obviously hundreds of thousands of producers make pop house but no one likes...
Some overlooked records from the first half of 2024
July 3, 2024
And so the first half of 2024 finishes and we drag our weary carcasses into the second half of the year. To celebrate, I wanted to look back on some of the...
30 years on: the secret history of Basement Jaxx and underground house
June 26, 2024
Basement Jaxx are one of the most misunderstood acts in the history of house music. in 2024 they are probably best known known for their bells, whistles and...
Young, dumb and full of drums: Lessons learned from Sónar 2024
June 19, 2024
ASIANDOPEBOYS were really something The more percussion, the merrier Back in the 1990s, when I first started going to clubs, the idea of DJ + percussionist...
Legends, locals and dance locura - a Sónar 2024 preview
June 12, 2024
The Hospital de Sant Joan Baptista in Sitges Just two weeks after Primavera Sound shredded my soul - in a good way, I think - it’s back to the festivals for...
Peggy Gou’s I Hear You: not under; not over…. just… ground?
June 5, 2024
To the left, that’s me in action at Primavera sound, alongside Johann Wald. Picture by Cecilia Díaz Betz As one of the first electronic music genres to...
Nico in Manchester is my favourite of all Nicos
May 28, 2024
Why does this make me think of Nico? Musical biographies tend to divide into two categories: those who view the central character as some kind of unvarnished...
The Line Noise guide to the electronic music of Primavera 2024
May 22, 2024
Obituary fans at the Sziget festival. Primavera Sound kicks off next week, which means a whole load of work (largely in the form of interviews) for me. If...
It’s-It: The Sugarcubes sweetest treat or how Björk re-invented herself in dance
May 15, 2024
A piece of cake Björk is many and Björk is multitude and I love all of those different Björks. But if there is one Björk I love more than all the others it...
Le Tone was French Touch’s arse between two seats
May 8, 2024
Le Tone relaxes: photo credit Etienne Jeanneret When you make a guess as to where an underground electronic music producer you have loved since the late 90s...
Mystical solace: Broadcast’s Spell Blanket reviewed
May 1, 2024
A Broadcast T-shirt haunts my house Broadcast were one of the last great musical mysteries, a band that came to light before social media hit, from...
Happy 20th birthday poptimism UK. Girls Aloud and poptimism UK
April 24, 2024
Nature is flowering in Barcelona spring While American journalists tie themselves up in knots about the whys and wherefors of poptimism, in the UK the...
Dillinja is a jungle king
April 17, 2024
Oslo's capitalist paradise “There are only really two kings in this music: Dillinja and Calibre. Everything in between is us.” So spoke Goldie in Drum & Bass...
Better than No Protection? Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Remix Tapes
April 10, 2024
Barcelona hot pot Subscribe now The one thing everyone can agree on when discussing late 1990s Massive attack is that no one, at the time, was agreeing on...
10 of the best jungle / hip hop crossovers
April 3, 2024
A very cosmic purple Subscribe now Jungle is often called the British hip hop, for fairly obvious cultural reasons. But actual crossovers between jungle and...
Todd Terry is the most underrated man in house music
March 27, 2024
Badalona is a very strange place In the long list of underrated house music pioneers, New York’s Todd Terry might be the most underrated of all. Terry’s...
Beyond Warhead: 10 reasons to love Krust, jungle’s most cerebral producer
March 20, 2024
Bugs under the floor Subscribe now From youthful pop star to life-coach consultant, Kirk Thompson aka (DJ) Krust, is one of the most fascinatingly free-...
Dimitri from Paris’ Sacrebleu - or French Touch versus French House
March 13, 2024
A dog, avoiding the cold, stylishly Subscribe now What is French Touch? Is it French house music built around filters and samples? Or is it music made by a...
Dave Clarke never lost his hardcore
March 6, 2024
Holmsbu, in Norway Dave Clarke was once famously described by DJ John Peel as “the baron of techno”, a nickname that has stuck with the British producer over...
The best records ever to wreck a genre part 3: Phuture’s Acid Tracks
February 28, 2024
The Emanuel Vigelands museum in Oslo really is something... Phuture’s Acid Tracks has the dubious honour of being the only song that both invented and killed...
The best records ever to wreck a genre part 2: Caspa and Rusko - FabricLive 37
February 21, 2024
Obituary fans smile for the camera, Sziget 2004 The iPod may have launched in 2001 but I think I first got my hands on one in 2007, as I remember Caspa and...
The best records ever to wreck a genre part 1: Bad Company - The Nine
February 14, 2024
An isard (chamois) in the Vall de Núria What are the best records ever to sink a whole genre of music? It’s a question that has been floating around my head...
DJ EZ: Pure Garage and the DJs’ DJ
February 7, 2024
Barcelona looking lovely, as seen from up a hill in Horta, one January morning. Before we start, a quick word of introduction. I was speaking to someone the...
Record collection rave: Burial’s Dreamfear reviewed
January 31, 2024
Not Burial, obviously. Among the scraps of information to have emerged from the few Burial interviews to date is that Will Bevan is an electronic music...
Go DJ! - DJ Zinc, Bingo Beats and ceaseless innovation
January 24, 2024
Robot music... eat your life DJ Zinc has long been the joker in the jungle pack. Not the most technical producer, bearer of the heaviest beats, best song...
Homework Remixes: when Daft Punk paid homage to their US dance roots
January 19, 2024
Homework Remixes: when Daft Punk paid homage to their US dance roots Plus Heavee, Jane Weaver, Sandwell District, Joy Orbison and more This photo is from IA:...
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