Reporting on the early 90s US rave scene… [November 1992]
While the European dance scene of the early 90s can be said to have influenced popular culture as we know…
Castlemorton: How a field in rural Worcestershire changed the free party scene forever… [May 1992]
On Friday 22 May 1992, 26 years ago today, the Castlemorton Common Festival kicked off, running pretty much non-stop for…
Olivier Abbeloos’ ‘New Beat’ series of mixes are essential listening for anyone into early house and techno…
The ‘New Beat’ genre, which emerged out of the EBM and New Wave scene in the mid- to late-80s is…
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…
The latest edition of the Graeme Park Radio Show is here… turn it up loud!
Something for the weekend? The latest instalment of the weekly Graeme Park Radio Show has just landed and it’s a…
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…
Remember when Boy George recorded an acid house-themed LGBT protest anthem..? [May 1988]
Back in May 1988, the Thatcher government in the UK, published the controversial Section 28 to the Local Government Act,…
Top one, nice one, get sorted! This Fantazia footage makes us want to go raving… [May 1992]
Think your day is going well? Not as well, I would argue, as it was for these punters, who attended…
Time to ditch the robots? Five years on from ‘Random Access Memories’, we deserve something truly DIFFERENT from Daft Punk…
Five years ago this week (17 May to be exact), Daft Punk unveiled their fourth studio album (or fifth if…
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…