‘I don’t want to be taken too literally when I say this,’ warns Glaswegian producer Colin Bailey, ‘but I see Drums of De...
MANCHESTER CLUB LISTINGS
DRUMS OF DEATH INTERVIEW
‘I don’t want to be taken too literally when I say this,’ warns Glaswegian producer Colin Bailey, ‘but I see Drums of De...
DAVID HOLMES INTERVIEW
Former Belfast hairdresser turned internationally revered techno DJ, David Holmes experim...
GREG WILSON INTERVIEW
NILE RODGERS INTERVIEW
SERGE SANTIAGO INTERVIEW
EFDEMIN INTERVIEW
A sometime student at Vienna’s Institute for Computer Music, Phillip Sollmann was once likely to be found using t...
TIM SWEENEY INTERVIEW
Tim Sweeney, New York’s coolest DJ, is a little annoyed about how our economy is going to hamper his trip to Manchester...
ALTERN8 INTERVIEW
AUTOKRATZ INTERVIEW
‘I love writing songs and singing,’ declares David Cox, the vocal half of electronic duo AutoKratz. ...
EVIL NINE INTERVIEW
Remember Evil Nine? Breakbeat act? Well, think again.
One half of the outfit, Pat Pardy, ...
URSULA RUCKER INTERVIEW
KODE 9 INTERVIEW
Some advice should you be attending this weekend’s Friends and Family party: when checking-in your coat,...
YUKSEK INTERVIEW
Paris, it seems, is just so 2007. Amongst the ‘out with the old’ cutting-edge scenes that would have first...
POLDER INTERVIEW
PRINS THOMAS INTERVIEW
THE COUNT & SINDEN INTERVIEW
MAPEI INTERVIEW
RENE AMESZ INTERVIEW
Footballers are about as recognised for their music taste as their girlfriends would be for under...
DOLBY-ANOL INTERVIEW
JAMES ZABIELA INTERVIEW
He might look like an even fresher-faced Chesney Hawkes [ask yer mum], but club DJ James Zabiela is more likely...
PAUL WOOLFORD INTERVIEW
PIG&DAN INTERVIEW
THE RZA INTERVIEW
From hip hop supergroup Gravediggaz to his role as lynchpin within the seminal Shaolin-inspired Wu-Tang C...
JUSTUS KOHNCKE INTERVIEW
TEENAGERSINTOKYO INTERVIEW
It's actually the first time that, Australian band, Teenagersintokyo have performed in the UK, b...
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS INTERVIEW
WALLY LOPEZ INTERVIEW
‘One of the differences between a pop artist and a DJ used to be that the DJ has no “face”,’ says Madrid s...
FREE BLOOD INTERVIEW
TODDLA T INTERVIEW
JIMPSTER INTERVIEW
The guise of one Jamie Odell, Jimpster’s work covers every shade of deep house with regular diversions into o...
MAGNETIC MAN INTERVIEW
A mysterious guise that sent shockwaves through the dubstep scene, Magnetic Man quickl...
PAUL DALEY INTERVIEW
Despite a legacy as big as their sound, Leftfield were also ‘reluctant to become dance music’s Status Quo’...
FOALS INTERVIEW
MILANESE INTERVIEW
Steve Milanese is a multi-instrumentalist with some 13 years of music training that’s said ...
KEVIN GORMAN INTERVIEW
Launched in 1996, DJ Hell’s cult International Deejay Gigolo label has become a respecte...
HEAVYFEET INTERVIEW
REX THE DOG INTERVIEW
Recording for uber-cool labels like Kompakt and Kitsune whilst creating pivotal remixes for the likes...
TRUSME INTERVIEW
TODD TERJE INTERVIEW
‘Our language sounds stupid!’ laughs Norway’s Terje Olsen – aka Balearic/disco artiste Todd Terj...
AUDION INTERVIEW
ANDY STOTT INTERVIEW
DAVID E SUGAR INTERVIEW
In the way that we are bound by law to declare anything that’s on the rise as being ‘the new ____’, David E. Sugar is ...
BASEMENT JAXX INTERVIEW
HERVE INTERVIEW
RADIO SLAVE INTERVIEW
At one time Radio Slave was actually a duo. Then based in Brighton, the guise hid Matt Edwards ...
RUB N TUG INTERVIEW
When their respective parents named them Thomas Bullock and Eric Duncan, they probably d...
SKREAM INTERVIEW
One of the key names operating within the dubstep genre, Croydon’s Skream – aka Olli Jones – h...
THE ORB INTERVIEW
DIXON INTERVIEW
‘There is nothing special with us,’ protests Berlin deep house music darling Dixon (born Stef...
BENGA INTERVIEW
Referencing ‘the dubstep sound’ doesn’t really convey the idea that here’s a music movement actually ...
CHRIS LAKE INTERVIEW
He’s still only in his mid-20’s, yet dance music producer and DJ Chris Lake has developed an env...
ANNIE MAC INTERVIEW
JESSE ROSE INTERVIEW
‘I’m always amazed at what he comes up with,’ enthuses DJ/producer Jesse Rose when our conversation turns to...
M.I.A. INTERVIEW
Building on the success of her Arular debut, M.I.A. delivered the explosive Kala long-player i...
SASHA INTERVIEW
A number of years back, Sasha was being lined-up as the quintessential superstar DJ. The dance press made som...
SWITCH INTERVIEW
JOJO DE FREQ INTERVIEW
LETHAL BIZZLE INTERVIEW
ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK INTERVIEW
SEBASTIEN LEGER INTERVIEW
‘Rocking a big room is the easiest thing to do,’ says Sébastien Léger as he’s presented with the oppo...
DIMITRI FROM PARIS INTERVIEW
ANDY VOTEL INTERVIEW
You could try a couple of approaches to find out what the hell Andy Votel plays at his DJ ...
DUSTY KID INTERVIEW
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO INTERVIEW
SVEN VATH INTERVIEW
You can trace Teutonic techno titan Sven Väth’s music activities back to the 1980’s. Then in the 1990’s his role...
MICHAEL MAYER INTERVIEW
Maybe it’s the sign of a truly great DJ but when we spoke to Germany’s Michael Mayer for the first...
VICARIOUS BLISS INTERVIEW
Manchester-born musicians, huh? Indie haircut, guitar riffs and swaggering [read: ‘fighty’...
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA INTERVIEW
A trio from Lisbon, Buraka Som Sistema are – much like Bonde Do Role – potentially making Portugu...
HIGH CONTRAST INTERVIEW
In the 1990s’ – back when the hype for all things drum & bass was of massive proportions – it see...
PAUL VAN DYK INTERVIEW
‘There are interviews that I did back in 1994 where I’m saying that I’m not a trance DJ,’ protest...
THE REAL HEAT INTERVIEW
DAVID GILMOUR GIRLS INTERVIEW
While signed to Headman’s amazing Switzerland-based Relish Recordings, Amsterdam’s Jasper...
BARRINGTONE INTERVIEW
The frontman with much missed band Clor, Barry Dobbin had already perhaps stumbled on what we now call ‘new rave’ with a collision of Devo-style art-rock, kooky indie songwriting and turbo-charged par...
HOSTAGE INTERVIEW
‘It’s a bit of a tartan shortbread tin,’ says producer/DJ Alan Parley of his hometown of Edinburg...
JEFF MILLS INTERVIEW
“Jeff Mills (born 18 June 1963 in Detroit, Michigan U.S.A.) is an influential African Americ...
PAUL EPWORTH INTERVIEW
MODESELEKTOR INTERVIEW
It’s curious that an act which will recite its biggest influences as ‘50 Cent, Sonic Youth and Mo...
XX TEENS INTERVIEW
Proclaimed elsewhere as ‘perhaps the most bonkers band in Blighty’, XX Teens incoherent lyri...
ARMAND VAN HELDEN INTERVIEW
‘I had dinner with a DJ the other night, in fact,’ says New York’s Armand Van Helden ...
DANNY TENAGLIA INTERVIEW
The adulation for the DJ perhaps peaked a few years back at the height of Tenagliamania.
...
WHOMADEWHO INTERVIEW
TRONIK YOUTH INTERVIEW
EWAN PEARSON INTERVIEW
[Posted 02/09/07]
‘It's the old thing about the journey being as important as the destination...
DJ SPINNA INTERVIEW
Developing his own fine reputation for independent hip hop production in the late 1990’s, Vin...
UTAH SAINTS INTERVIEW
Citing an ‘audio spring in our step’ with current remixes for DJ Yoda, Dave Spoon and Dub Pistols...
ELEKTRONS INTERVIEW
SHIT ROBOT INTERVIEW
KELIS INTERVIEW
DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP
GROOVE ARMADA
‘We’re not just desperately trying to hang in there for another five years or whatever so that we can pay our mortgages,’ states Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay, ‘we’re genuinely excited by the music.’Read more >
DUKE DUMONT INTERVIEW
ANDY C INTERVIEW
‘Don’t say that,’ insists drum ‘n’ bass don Andy C rather too strictly when we suggest that his Ram ...
DANIELE BALDELLI INTERVIEW
THE BLOODY BEETROOTS INTERVIEW
Emerging from Italy and with their own output plus reworks of The Whip, Fox 'N' Wolf, Alex Gophe...
KISSY SELL OUT INTERVIEW
MISS ODD KIDD INTERVIEW
According to Adverntures Close to Home: "every indie boy's wet dream drags a K'ed up Missy & T...
THE TEENAGERS INTERVIEW
CLAUDE VONSTROKE INTERVIEW
We’re informed that we are indeed talking to Claude VonStroke. Yet we could just as easily be chatting to Barclay Crenshaw, Burnto Bertolucci or Pedro DeLaFaydro as all of these shadowy characters are...
CHARLIE FANCLUB INTERVIEW
THE TIGERPICKS INTERVIEW
SHADOW DANCER INTERVIEW
[Posted 31/07/07]
Electro siblings Shadow Dancer live separately in Llandudno and Manchester but it’s when they come together that they really begin to interest us. Now signe...
Electro siblings Shadow Dancer live separately in Llandudno and Manchester but it’s when they come together that they really begin to interest us. Now signe...
CARL COX INTERVIEW
TOM NEVILLE INTERVIEW
UFFIE INTERVIEW
[Posted 16/06/07]
Don't get us wrong, we love Justice. It's just that that while these ...
Don't get us wrong, we love Justice. It's just that that while these ...
EVIL EDDIE RICHARDS INTERVIEW
[Posted 16/06/07]
"I think the first house track I bought was in 1986," DJ Eddie Richards says as we accompany him on a trip down memory lane. "Yeah, it was by Sleazy D and called I’ve ...
"I think the first house track I bought was in 1986," DJ Eddie Richards says as we accompany him on a trip down memory lane. "Yeah, it was by Sleazy D and called I’ve ...
SKULL JUICE INTERVIEW
Posted 09/06/07
Recently guesting at a particularly hectic Homoelectric shindig, DJ duo Skull Juice (AKA London's Alex Egan and Benedict Bull) found time for a chat.
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Recently guesting at a particularly hectic Homoelectric shindig, DJ duo Skull Juice (AKA London's Alex Egan and Benedict Bull) found time for a chat.
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