“Où est le masque?” COVID-19 and France’s electronic music scene
France is a nation built on ‘liberté’ and ‘égalité’, but the footage from last weekend’s…
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“We have always been guided by the principle that money and time are irrelevant…” WestBam reflects on ten years of Low Spirit Recordings [August 1995]
German rave pioneer WestBam, aka Maximilian Lenz, celebrates his 55th birthday today (4 March 1965),…
‘New urbanism’ and the night-time economy…
Investment in a ‘night mayor’ or ‘night-time economy manager’ can have a qualitative impact on…
We need to talk about Salvatore Ganacci…
I’ve written in the past on this blog about how the EDM scene (the hyper-commercialised,…
Time to ditch the robots? Five years on from ‘Random Access Memories’, we deserve something truly DIFFERENT from Daft Punk…
Five years ago this week (17 May to be exact), Daft Punk unveiled their fourth…
Check out these party goers raving the night away at Paris’ Castel Club in the 1990s…
Legendary Paris nightspot Chez Castel has been the centre of sophistication in the French capital…
Legendary Belgian techno club Fuse opened its doors 24 years ago this week. Here’s a documentary about how it all came together… [April 1994]
Paris has Le Grand Rex, Berlin has Tresor, and Brussels has Fuse. The legendary Belgian…
This new book on Paris’ club culture in the 1990s looks like a coffee table essential…
Paris in the 1990s was a special time and place for electronic music, seeing the…
Thunderdome’s early TV commercials underline just how insane the whole gabber scene was…
It’s testament to the hard work of ID&T founders Irfan van Ewijk, Duncan Stutterheim and…
Daft Punk’s Discovery, 17 years later… [February 2001]
Daft Punk released their second album, Discovery, on 26 February 2001, and while 17 years…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Daft Punk – ‘Drive’ [1994]
This week marks 21 years since the launch of Homework, the album that catapulted two…
Check out this video of the acid house scene in Hamburg in 1988… [December 1988]
Think ‘acid house in the late 80s’ and you inevitably think of clubs like The…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: T99 – Anasthasia (1991)
Is this the most devastating opening chord salvo in dance music history? Watch this video…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Emmanuel Top – Acid Phase [November 1994]
Lille-born Emmanuel Top was one of the great techno producers of the 90s, and his…
Dutch Gabber – often copied, never equalled… [January 1996]
Whatever your take on Gabber – the 160bpm-plus electronic music scene that emerged out of…