Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ entered the charts on this day in 1991… [February 1991]
When the annals of dance music come to be written, Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy will…
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Dance music invades the (commercial) airwaves… [January 1995]
This year, as many of you know, marks the 25th anniversary of the first BBC…
Haçienda founder and Factory Records guru Tony Wilson would have been 68 today…
It’s not often that you see Happy Mondays’ frontman Shaun Ryder get all emotional, but…
Further evidence why the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty is an absolute legend… [December 1996]
You’ve heard the one about the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty buying up two old Saracen tanks and…
Enjoying your Monday? Not as much as these punters enjoyed this Doncaster rave, 25 years ago today… [February 1993]
It’s been doing the rounds one YouTube for some time, but now it’s finally come…
Pete Tong: “I know I’m an old git, but I still enjoy the scene…” [December 1998]
Amazingly, BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, marking yet another…
The Brothers’ gonna work it out… [June 1995]
Having forged an early career as master remix duo The Dust Brothers, schoolmates Ed Simons…
Club flyers? Nah, I’m gonna use my pager…
How did tech-savvy clubbers in the late 90s look to keep up to date with…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #1: New Order – Blue Monday [1983]
Well, we’ve made it. Over the past 12 days, 909originals has brought you what it…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #7: Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy [1997]
While yesterday’s review of Laurent Garnier’s Sound of the Big Babou highlighted that track’s haunted…
Adamski – from chaos to ‘Killer’… [September 1990]
Adamski’s Killer was one of the stand-out tracks of 1990, topping the pop charts for…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix) [November 1991]
If there was a track that summed up the two sides to the rave scene…
Sasha: The first DJ pin-up…? [December 1991]
Back in 1991, several years before the concept of a ‘superstar DJ’ (with the booking…
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…
Liam and Noel Gallagher invade clubland… [November 1996]
Back in the mid 90s, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing a blast of Wonderwall…
The great Haçienda sell off… [November 2000]
This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper… So…
Why taping Radio 1’s Essential Mix back in the mid-90s was a whole lot easier than trying to stream it online…
Having started broadcasting in October 1993, BBC’s Essential Mix has been the benchmark-setter for dance…
Haven’t I seen you somewhere before? MUZIK’s dance music lookalikes… [January 1997]
In the early days of the World Wide Web, when life was simpler, hours could…
Goodbye Charly… The Prodigy release Music for the Jilted Generation… [1994]
“You can forget about that bloody cat for a start. It is possible there are…
Ready, steady, fashion! What to wear raving in 1993… [January 1993]
Music and fashion have gone hand in hand for more than half a century, and…
NME heads to Manchester to sample the ‘real’ Acid House scene… [October 1988]
“In magazines I read of the ‘London House Explosion’ and how they thought it up……
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Sasha & Digweed, Ministry of Sound’s Sixth Birthday [September 1997]
It’s hard to believe that the Northern Exposure mix series – arguably the mixes that…
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy… [1989]
Heaven has been a part of London clubland for more than a generation – first…
Full on cartoon rave hysteria…
A few weeks back, The Guardian ran an enjoyable piece on how ‘cartoon rave’ changed…
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…
Paul Oakenfold tells NME about the emerging acid house scene… [October 1988]
“The official line is this. Yes, there are some drugs involved, but not as much…
What happens when a rave gets shut down… [1989]
While the late 80s and early 90s saw countless free parties held around the outskirts…
The UK Charts from this week 25 years ago are a raver’s paradise… [October 1992]
A lot has been written in the past about how acid house stormed the charts…
I used to think the year 2000 wasn’t that long ago… until I saw this ad for MP3 players… [April 2000]
We all love them. Looking through old magazines and coming across ads for Sony Walkmans,…