Dance music invades the (commercial) airwaves… [January 1995]
This year, as many of you know, marks the 25th anniversary of the first BBC…
This year, as many of you know, marks the 25th anniversary of the first BBC…
“The names have been changed to protect the innocent…” There are debut singles, and then…
It’s not often that you see Happy Mondays’ frontman Shaun Ryder get all emotional, but…
You’ve heard the one about the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty buying up two old Saracen tanks and…
Armand Van Helden turns 48 tomorrow, and so for this week’s Throwback Thursday, we recall…
It’s been 29 years since producer Satoshi Tomiie recorded one of THE standout house anthems,…
Whisper it quietly, but the evenings are starting to get longer. Ok, as I write…
What goes up, must come down, as the old expression goes. Long before The Orb,…
It’s been doing the rounds one YouTube for some time, but now it’s finally come…
“At the end, you probably don’t hear anything, everything just goes black.” This famous (albeit…
Today marks Laurent Garnier’s 52nd birthday, and I can think of no better track to…
Carl Cox has worked with many great artists over the years, however in late 1998,…
With Dublin venues District 8 and Hangar now earmarked for closure in the coming months,…
There are few things worse than a marauding gang of pissed-up idiots taking over the…
Annie Mac got a lot of coverage last week for her comments on the use…
This week marks 21 years since the launch of Homework, the album that catapulted two…
There was a period, sometime around late 1990/early 1991, when you couldn’t turn on the…
Amazingly, BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, marking yet another…
Think ‘acid house in the late 80s’ and you inevitably think of clubs like The…
There are few things more frustrating than having to persevere with a seemingly-endless procession of…
Released on Hooj Choons (one of the all time great labels) in early 1995, Artemnesia’s…
Today, 18 January, would have been Frankie Knuckles’ 63rd birthday. Arguably the most important name…
Let’s settle the debate once and for all. Is the correct term to use, when…
Released 20 years ago today, 16 January 1998, Air’s Moon Safari was THE soundtrack to…
Were things really better in the 90s? A quick glance at Mixmag’s list of the…
“The Cold War is over, this is the Code War…” Back in July 1992, while…
For the first Throwback Thursday tune of 2018, we go back 20 years, to February…
Having forged an early career as master remix duo The Dust Brothers, schoolmates Ed Simons…
How did tech-savvy clubbers in the late 90s look to keep up to date with…
There’s a scene in the latest Simon Pegg-Nick Frost movie, The World’s End, in which…