Make Aoife NicCanna’s ‘Folklore From The Dancefloor’ your essential bank holiday listening
We might be nearing the end of the Phase 1 lockdown process, but it will…
Month: May 2020
It’s Erol Alkan’s birthday, so we’re giving this classic mix from 2003 another spin…
Dance magazine cover CDs can often be a mixed bag, but every now and again,…
Weekend mode on! It’s the Long Live House Radio Show
Get that Friday feeling with two hours of quality house music from the Long Live…
The Stone Roses played Spike Island on this day 30 years ago…
Do you remember what you were doing on Sunday 27 May 1990? Chances are it…
Bliss To Be Alive… The collected works of The Face journalist Gavin Hills has been reissued
Few scribes were able to capture the pulse of life in the 90s like Gavin…
10 things you might not have known about Orbital’s ‘Brown Album’
“It’s like… like a cry for survival. A cry for survival. For their survival and…
Detroit legends Drexciya continue to bring ‘afrofuturist’ mythology to the masses with the launch of a new book
As well as being one of the foremost production duos emerging from Detroit in the…
Interview: On the right track… 909originals catches up with Squire
Do you know what you were doing a decade ago? In the case of Jaime…
With the future of Q Magazine said to be looking rocky, here’s a playlist compiled from its ‘100 Greatest Albums’ issue in 1998…
The news that Q Magazine could be facing closure – a victim of falling advertising and…
“Ian was mesmerising to watch… jerking and flailing his arms like a demon possessed, like a man out of place, drowning and waving, in the smoke-filled air.” Joy Division’s Ian Curtis died 40 years ago today…
“Existence well what does it matter?I exist on the best terms I canThe past is…
MTV comes to Mosney… MTV’s Dance Floor Chart reports from Homelands Ireland 2000
Homelands Ireland 2000 was 20 years ago – no, we don’t know where the time went…
Get your groove on with the Long Live House Radio Show..!
Get ready to wild up your weekend with quality house tunes from the Long Live…
Check out the absolute SCENES from Fantazia Takes You Into Summertime, which took place on this day in 1992
On this day (15 May) in 1992, rave promoters Fantazia put on their largest party…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Kamaflarge – Discotamination (Dave Angel Rework) [1998]
Seeing as yesterday marked Dave Angel‘s 54th birthday (happy birthday Dave!), this week’s Throwback Thursday…
Interview: Here come the drumz… 909originals chats to State Of Bass author Martin James about the origins of jungle and drum ‘n’ bass
Emerging out of the melting pot of broken Britain in the early 90s, jungle (and…
Sampling the robots… A playlist of 25 tracks that ‘borrow’ from Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express
Released in 1977, Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express saw the self-styled robots come of age – moving away…
“Why limit your expression to certain sounds? If the world was full of purists, music would go nowhere…” Andrew Weatherall in 1994
It’s a little under three months since we said goodbye to musical alchemist Andrew Weatherall…
This downtempo mix from Altern 8’s Mark Archer is perfect Sunday listening…
Better known for donning a hazmat suit and monogrammed face mask – long before the coronavirus…
Remembering Florian Schneider… pioneer, visionary, genius
Following the passing of Florian Schneider, music has lost one of its great visionaries. Author…
Before they were robots – How Organisation evolved into Kraftwerk
The city of Düsseldorf has spawned some of the most iconic German acts of the…
Interview: ADMN’s new label Infolines aims to capture the electronic pulse of the Motor City…
‘As techno and house have become less underground and moved to the main stages of…
This the lineup for tonight’s 2FM Late Night Sessions 20th anniversary, and we can’t wait…
There are Saturday nights in, and then there’s this. RTE 2FM is pulling out all…
Let the Long Live House Radio Show funk up your weekend..!
Looking for quality house music? Look no further than the latest instalment of the Long…
Keeping the Homelands Ireland 2000 buzz going…. here’s a playlist of tracks we remember from the day
As discussed earlier in the week in the pages of 909originals, this past Wednesday marked…