Techno

How Jeff Mills influenced Daft Punk’s ‘Rollin and Scratchin’

Forget Get Lucky, One More Time, or even Da Funk. For us, the quintessential Daft Punk track is Rollin and…

6 years ago

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Carl Craig – At Les [1997]

Given that this week marked techno legend Carl Craig’s 49th birthday - happy belated tidings Carl! - this week’s Throwback…

6 years ago

Artificial Life Begins At 40: Why Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine is more relevant now than ever… [May 1978]

“We’re charging our battery, and now we’re full of energy. We are the robots.” Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine was released 40…

6 years ago

THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Prodigy – No Good (Start The Dance) (CJ Bolland’s Museum Mix) [May 1994]

The second single from The Prodigy’s Music For The Jilted Generation, No Good (Start The Dance), was released 24 years…

6 years ago

Dave Angel, speaking in 1993: “Techno came from jazz years ago, and forty years from now, techno will be like jazz…”

Having found fame for his seminal mix of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams in 1990, Dave Angel has been one of the…

6 years ago

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Public Energy – Three ‘O Three [1992]

If Change The Beat, released on R&S Records in 1991 established Dutchman Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J, aka Public Energy)…

6 years ago

The man behind arguably the most important magazine in Germany’s techno history… [March 1996]

Jürgen Laarmann may not be a household name outside of Germany, but for a generation of clubbers east of the…

6 years ago

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 techno club opened its doors…

6 years ago

For those of you that thought good music died in the 90s, this is for you… part two [April 1998]

Looking back, 20 years later, on a list of the 'best dance tracks of all time' you would expect there…

6 years ago

For those of you that thought good music died in the 90s, this is for you… part one [April 1998]

There’s a school of thought out there that all dance music post 1998 is, frankly, fairly rubbish - you know…

6 years ago