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I can’t get no sleep… Faithless’ debut album ‘Reverence’ turns 22 … [April 1996]

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Coming five months on from the single that established Faithless as a headline dance act – Insomnia – Reverence was…

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“The big wheel keeps on turning, On a simple line day by day, The earth spins on its axis, One…

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Something magical was obviously in the air on 6 April 1963, as both Detroit legend Derrick May and Andrew Weatherall…

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Today, 6 April, marks Derrick May‘s 55th birthday, and it’s a sign of an unyielding devotion to quality techno that…

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Rarely pictured without a ‘Gitanes’ in his mouth (and buxom blonde under his arm), legendary French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg would…

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A funny thought came to me last night, what if Donald Trump’s election platform had been founded on protecting American…

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Paris in the 1990s was a special time and place for electronic music, seeing the emergence of artists such as…

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Hell hath no fury like Mad Mike scorned, as this article from MUZIK magazine in August 1996 demonstrates. The Underground…

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“The feeling, the feedback that you get from the people in the room, is very, very spiritual. The Warehouse was…

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If you were looking for evidence as to just how incredible the dance scene was ‘back then’, this playlist does…