São Paulo native Victor Ruiz is fast becoming a household name on the techno circuit, remixing artists such as Moby, Stephan Bodzin and Dubfire, as well as playing some of

Marcus Mixx, aka Marcus Shannon, has experienced the highs and lows of the music scene – having been hailed as one of Chicago’s leading house music producers in the late

When you hit the bottom, there’s only one way to go… up. Just ask Chicago house producer Marcus Mixx, aka Marcus Shannon. In the three decades or so since he

For more than two decades, Matthew Herbert has proven to be one of electronic music’s most versatile and prolific figureheads, working with artists as diverse as Björk and Dizzee Rascal,

Trying to pigeonhole Matthew Herbert is an impossible task – from big band swing to classical reinterpretations to minimal techno (to capturing the sound of a farmyard animal from birth

They say that there are ‘no second acts in American lives’… but that’s clearly not the case in Scotland, where the one-time frontman of pioneering indie rockers The Soup Dragons,

In the beginning, there was house music… and there was TRAX Records. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of the legendary Chicago label, and over the next

Following on from part one yesterday, part two of our ORIGINS interview with Seamus Haji examines the London-born house producer’s A&R work, how he developed the Big Love label, and

In recent years, London-born Seamus Haji has become one of house music’s most celebrated producers and remixers, heading up the Big Love label and holding residencies in seminal nightspots such

On this day (20 January) in 1997, French duo Daft Punk released Homework, their devastating, disco-funk infused debut, which would go on to be one of the most influential albums