Friday 13th? More like history repeating… [October 2000]
It’s Friday 13th, and that can mean only one thing… techno! And what better man than Dave Clarke, the baron…
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Get ready for an Italo Disco revival…
It was only a matter of time before Italo Disco made a comeback, and a forthcoming documentary on this classic…
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 as you’d like to think….
Deee-Lite: A Momentary Lapse of Psychedelia… [August 1990]
There are breakthrough singles, and then there’s Groove Is In The Heart… Deee-Lite were one of those bands that best…
What happens when a rave gets shut down… [1989]
While the late 80s and early 90s saw countless free parties held around the outskirts of London’s M25, some were…
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 at the start of the…
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 of indie rock (“an infectious…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Bam Bam – Where’s Your Child? [1988]
With Halloween fast approaching (and on the back our review of pizzicato house track Nightmare last week), this week we…
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 carving out an impressive four-decade…
Dutch Gabber – often copied, never equalled… [January 1996]
Whatever your take on Gabber – the 160bpm-plus electronic music scene that emerged out of Rotterdam in the early 1990s,…