Retro

The Dance Music Archive launches new weekly radio show on Kisstory

The recently-launched Dance Music Archive is taking to the airwaves, with the launch of a new weekly show on Kisstory…

2 years ago

Tom Tom Club’s ‘Genius Of Love’, four decades on

"What you gonna do when you get out of jail?I'm gonna have some fun…" Released on 6 September 1981, Tom…

3 years ago

“I surround myself with equipment and just follow my feelings on the machines…” A 21-year-old Aphex Twin looks to the future [December 1992]

Having composed his first electronic symphonies as a precocious teenager (as catalogued in Selected Ambient Works 85–92), by the time the…

3 years ago

“Tina lives in Berlin…” The inspiration behind Underworld’s ‘Push Upstairs’

Landing in 1999 amid much fanfare, Underworld's fifth album, Beaucoup Fish, is arguably the group's most compete long player, featuring…

3 years ago

A few pints (and vodka and oranges) with Aphex Twin… [January 1997]

Not only is Richard D James one of electronic music's true pioneers, he's also a bloody nice bloke to hit…

3 years ago

“The punk-attitude, DIY aspect of The Prodigy…” How ‘Firestarter’ broke the mould

"I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigatorI'm the fear addicted, a danger illustrated..." The pop charts of March 1996 were a…

3 years ago

Examining the origins of Sabres of Paradise’s ‘Smokebelch II’

The recent anniversary of the passing of Andrew Weatherall saw a raft of DJs and music fans alike delve into…

3 years ago

“Shoryuken..!” The music of Street Fighter II – How Yoko Shimomura soundtracked one of the biggest video games of all time

Street Fighter II was released on 6 February 1991, becoming the biggest arcade game since the days of Pac-Man and…

3 years ago

5 things you might not know about Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy…

"You're the book that I have opened,And now I've got to know much more…" Massive Attack's seminal Unfinished Sympathy might…

3 years ago

How much do DJs get paid? This 1996 article sought to find out

Claims that dance music has 'gone too commercial' have been around since the formative years of acid house. When rave…

3 years ago