12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #8: Laurent Garnier – Sound of the Big Babou [2000]
Our festive countdown of the greatest dance music intros of all time continues with a…
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12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #11: LFO – Freak
Continuing our festive look at the most impactful intros in dance music history, we follow…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Cybersonik – Technarchy [August 1990]
Composed of Richie Hawtin, John Acquavia and Daniel Bell, Cybersonik were a short lived production…
the29nov films – making techno a full-on visual experience…
Today being 29 November, I thought it was fitting to pay tribute to the29nov films,…
This video of the 1995 Love Parade is just the tonic on a cold winter’s night… [July 1995]
With the weather getting colder (2 degrees at the last count!), there’s nothing like a…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: T99 – Anasthasia (1991)
Is this the most devastating opening chord salvo in dance music history? Watch this video…
Frankie Bones on the UK rave scene… [February 1990]
For US-based DJs coming to Europe in the late 80s and early 90s, the rave…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Jeff Mills – Live At The Liquid Room – Tokyo [1996]
If you are looking for evidence that Jeff Mills has long been one of the…
Richie Hawtin on his origins… and overpaid DJs [September 1994]
Richie Hawtin has been at the forefront of techno for more than 25 years, and…
This documentary contains everything you need to know about electronic music in early 90s Berlin… [1993]
Music site Electronic Beats recently uncovered a gem lurking away in the far back reaches…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Jeff Mills – The Dancer [1996]
Having developed his Axis label (as well as providing a boost to the emerging Tresor…
Dave Clarke’s Archive One… ‘a warped, out-of-kilter musical worldview’ [February 1996]
With the release of techno legend Dave Clarke’s new album [the excellent The Desecration of…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: OFF – Electrica Salsa [1986]
As Sven Väth celebrates his 53rd birthday, 909originals celebrates one of the diamonds in the…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND – This 1994 mix by Colin Dale is a bit special…
Colin Dale has been one of the hardest working men in dance music since he…
That time Carl Cox mixed it up with Zig & Zag… [February 1996]
The legend that is Carl Cox has been a mainstay of the dance scene since…
Friday 13th? More like history repeating… [October 2000]
It’s Friday 13th, and that can mean only one thing… techno! And what better man…
Dutch Gabber – often copied, never equalled… [January 1996]
Whatever your take on Gabber – the 160bpm-plus electronic music scene that emerged out of…
Laurent Garnier: “I’m not going to play on CDs… fuck that, no way.” [1994]
Laurent Garner has always been one of techno’s more imaginative producers, following up early rave…
Techno’s biggest names ‘rock the vote’ [2002]…
With Germany set to go to the polls today, it’s worth looking back to the…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND – Derrick May – Chemistry on 3 Mix, Amsterdam [1996]
Detroit’s finest Derrick May has a history of combining a myriad of styles, from disco…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Der Dritte Raum – Hale Bopp [August 1998]
It’s rare enough that you can say that a particular track could have been released…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: David Holmes, BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix [December 1993]
Northern Ireland’s David Holmes is today perhaps better known for his soundtrack work – including…
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND – Jeff Mills pushes a Roland TR-909 to its limits…
Ahead of official Roland TR-909 day this Saturday (9th day of the 09th month), 909originals…
The day AFTER the Love Parade [July 1996]…
Berlin’s Love Parade may have made its last passage through the Tiergarten some years ago,…
Dave Clarke, a breed apart… [August 1995]
Now considered a member of techno’s premier league, Dave Clarke first became a household name…
DJ Stingray: Detroit’s master craftsman…
Part of the ‘second wave’ of Detroit artists to emerge in the early 90s –…
Remembering the time Kraftwerk played a field near Luton [June 1997]…
Since the launch of their Tour de France Soundtracks album in 2003, Kraftwerk have been…
Something For The Weekend: Josh Wink rocks Time Warp [November 1997]…
Josh Wink shot to prominence in the mid-90s with Don’t Laugh, I’m Ready (as Size…
Orbital’s ‘Chime’ still hits the right notes [2001]…
Orbital’s Chime is rightly considered one of the electronic music masterpieces of all time –…
Watch this German brass band perform a killer version of ‘Man With The Red Face’…
I found myself at a corporate gig in Berlin in June, and as well as…