Add some Halloween Horror to your DJ set with Vincent Price’s isolated ‘Thriller’ rap…
Nothing screams Halloween like Michael Jackson’s Thriller, released in November 1982, and while Quincy Jones’…
Month: October 2017
Ready, steady, fashion! What to wear raving in 1993… [January 1993]
Music and fashion have gone hand in hand for more than half a century, and…
NME heads to Manchester to sample the ‘real’ Acid House scene… [October 1988]
“In magazines I read of the ‘London House Explosion’ and how they thought it up……
Set these dancing pixels to your favourite tune, sit back and enjoy…
Sometimes you come across a website that just makes listening to music a whole lot…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Sasha & Digweed, Ministry of Sound’s Sixth Birthday [September 1997]
It’s hard to believe that the Northern Exposure mix series – arguably the mixes that…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: OFF – Electrica Salsa [1986]
As Sven Väth celebrates his 53rd birthday, 909originals celebrates one of the diamonds in the…
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy… [1989]
Heaven has been a part of London clubland for more than a generation – first…
Why Fischerspooner decided to re-‘Emerge’…with a little help from Michael Stipe
When the annals of electro-pop are written, Emerge by Fischerspooner deserves to be considered as…
Full on cartoon rave hysteria…
A few weeks back, The Guardian ran an enjoyable piece on how ‘cartoon rave’ changed…
Amnesia Ibiza: Opening Party, 25 years ago… [1992]
Ibiza was a well-known stop off point on the global hippy trail in the 1970s,…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND – This 1994 mix by Colin Dale is a bit special…
Colin Dale has been one of the hardest working men in dance music since he…
That time Carl Cox mixed it up with Zig & Zag… [February 1996]
The legend that is Carl Cox has been a mainstay of the dance scene since…
Friday 13th? More like history repeating… [October 2000]
It’s Friday 13th, and that can mean only one thing… techno! And what better man…
Get ready for an Italo Disco revival…
It was only a matter of time before Italo Disco made a comeback, and a…
Paul Oakenfold tells NME about the emerging acid house scene… [October 1988]
“The official line is this. Yes, there are some drugs involved, but not as much…
Deee-Lite: A Momentary Lapse of Psychedelia… [August 1990]
There are breakthrough singles, and then there’s Groove Is In The Heart… Watch this video…
What happens when a rave gets shut down… [1989]
While the late 80s and early 90s saw countless free parties held around the outskirts…
The UK Charts from this week 25 years ago are a raver’s paradise… [October 1992]
A lot has been written in the past about how acid house stormed the charts…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Check out this slamming rave mixtape from indie rockers Butterfly Explosion…
“Open your mind…” Irish group Butterfly Explosion are perhaps better known for their shoegaze-influenced blend…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Bam Bam – Where’s Your Child? [1988]
With Halloween fast approaching (and on the back our review of pizzicato house track Nightmare…
So why DID rocker Paul Weller decide to cover one of the all-time seminal house tracks..? [February 1989]
Given that Paul Weller commenced his career in ‘spit n sawdust’ outfit The Jam, before…
Dutch Gabber – often copied, never equalled… [January 1996]
Whatever your take on Gabber – the 160bpm-plus electronic music scene that emerged out of…
What is Trance music? Understanding a new sound… [February 1996]
Spurred on by the success of DJ Misjah & Tim’s Access, one of the standout…
I used to think the year 2000 wasn’t that long ago… until I saw this ad for MP3 players… [April 2000]
We all love them. Looking through old magazines and coming across ads for Sony Walkmans,…