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Catching up with 808 State in 1996… [July 1996]

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In 1996, seven years on from Pacific State going massive, 808 State released their fifth album, Don Solaris. Featuring a…

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For the record, the lyric is ‘Street sounds swirling through my mind’ and not ‘These sounds fall into my mind’……

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Injected With A Poison by Praga Khan is one of most frenetic rave tracks of the early 90s, packed with…

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Fair play to Galway-based DJ Cian Ó Cíobháin for digging this one out and posting it on Facebook the other…

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There are few one-hit wonders better than the absolute rave belter that is Egyptian Empire’s The Horn Track. Released in…

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Bellingham Castle, in County Louth, Ireland, is, according to the official website, ‘an elegant and spacious 17th Century Irish castle…

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It’s testament to the hard work of ID&T founders Irfan van Ewijk, Duncan Stutterheim and Theo Lelie, that Thunderdome, the…

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Daft Punk released their second album, Discovery, on 26 February 2001, and while 17 years and two studio albums have…

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Back in 1991, legendary DJ Carl Cox dipped his toe into the production game, with the release of I Want…

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Despite operating for just over eight years (I had the pleasure of working there for three of them), The Kitchen…