A look at Cream Liverpool’s website… from 1997
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, as the saying goes, but Archive.org still throws…
Year: 2017
Kraftwerk By Numbers…
What happens when Kraftwerk’s ‘Numbers’ comes on in the club? You get in line and…
THE FACE goes clubbing in Chicago, c.1986…
While I may have been too young to fully appreciate it at the time, THE…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #1: New Order – Blue Monday [1983]
Well, we’ve made it. Over the past 12 days, 909originals has brought you what it…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #2: Orbital – Chime [1990]
Second place in our 12 Tunes of Christmas rundown of the most incredible intros in…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #3: Underworld – Rez [1993]
To all intents and purposes, Underword’s Rez should never have been a hit. Having had…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #4: Pump Panel – Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction) [1995]
We continue our countdown of the most inspirational intros in dance music history with a…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #5: The KLF – What Time is Love? [1988]
With the return of the KLF earlier this year, perhaps Messrs Jimmy Cauty and Bill…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #6: X-101 – Sonic Destroyer [1991]
Continuing our look at the most impressive intros ever committed to wax, this next track…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #7: Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy [1997]
While yesterday’s review of Laurent Garnier’s Sound of the Big Babou highlighted that track’s haunted…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #8: Laurent Garnier – Sound of the Big Babou [2000]
Our festive countdown of the greatest dance music intros of all time continues with a…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #9: T99 – Anasthasia [1991]
The festive rundown continues with a track that is an audio representation of the old…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #10: Maurice – This Is Acid (K & T Mix) [1988]
For the third instalment of our festive countdown, we turn the clock back 30 years…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #11: LFO – Freak
Continuing our festive look at the most impactful intros in dance music history, we follow…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #12: Royal House – Can You Party (Club Mix) [1988]
It wouldn’t be Christmas without some sort of a festive countdown, and while other blogs…
Maxine Bradshaw – a pivotal figure behind Carl Cox’s success.. [December 1990]
Behind every great man, the saying goes, is an even greater woman, and in the…
2 Unlimited hit Amsterdam’s not so red light district… [May 1993]
Love them or hate them, there’s no doubt that 2 Unlimited, the Eurodance alter ego…
Ravestock 94: the hippies would have been proud… [August 1994]
The 25th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival was always likely to be a pretty nostalgic…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Cybersonik – Technarchy [August 1990]
Composed of Richie Hawtin, John Acquavia and Daniel Bell, Cybersonik were a short lived production…
Too old to go clubbing? Don’t make me laugh…
They say ‘age is but a number’, but for most middle aged people, spending hours…
Adamski – from chaos to ‘Killer’… [September 1990]
Adamski’s Killer was one of the stand-out tracks of 1990, topping the pop charts for…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix) [November 1991]
If there was a track that summed up the two sides to the rave scene…
the29nov films – making techno a full-on visual experience…
Today being 29 November, I thought it was fitting to pay tribute to the29nov films,…
Ibiza Uncovered… A lot has changed in the years since, or has it? [July 1997]
In July 1997, Ibiza Uncovered was first broadcast on Sky One, introducing the world to…
Sasha: The first DJ pin-up…? [December 1991]
Back in 1991, several years before the concept of a ‘superstar DJ’ (with the booking…
This video of the 1995 Love Parade is just the tonic on a cold winter’s night… [July 1995]
With the weather getting colder (2 degrees at the last count!), there’s nothing like a…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: T99 – Anasthasia (1991)
Is this the most devastating opening chord salvo in dance music history? Watch this video…
Frankie Bones on the UK rave scene… [February 1990]
For US-based DJs coming to Europe in the late 80s and early 90s, the rave…
Liam and Noel Gallagher invade clubland… [November 1996]
Back in the mid 90s, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing a blast of Wonderwall…