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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie & Clyde (Herbert’s Fred & Ginger Mix) [2002]

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Why Underground Resistance don’t celebrate Independence Day… [August 1996]

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On the anniversary of Frankie Knuckles’ untimely passing, check out this interview with the house music legend from 1995

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

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This early 90s rave, dnb and hardcore playlist is all you need for the Easter weekend…

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: A Homeboy, a Hippie and a Funki Dredd: Total Confusion [1990]

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Of all the stars of the rave scene that were gone too soon, Caspar Pound…

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Long considered one of electronic music’s pioneering forces, Detroit techno legend Jeff Mills believes that…

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The Ultra Music Festival, the 2018 edition of which closed in Miami last night, is…

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I will never get tired of watching Shaun Ryder trying to describe ‘Voodoo Ray’…

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Not content with featuring one Happy Mondays-related post today, here’s another, which also features another…

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Check out this video of the Happy Mondays rocking Manchester’s G-Mex… [March 1990]

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Today, 25 March, marks the anniversary of one of the most ‘Madchester’ gigs of all…

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Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty… Dub Be Good To Me tops the charts [March 1990]

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Beats International‘s Dub Be Good To Me, which topped the charts 28 years ago this…

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THROWBACK THURSDAY – The Horrorist: One Night in New York City [1996]

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Remember Jackanory? The programme where celebrities sat down with a children’s book, and proceeded to…

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What’s the best way to file your vinyl? This article from 1997 tries to find out… [June 1997]

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I’ve often found it amusing to see DJs posting pictures of themselves on Instagram surrounded…

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The International DeeJay Gigolos CD back catalogue is a masterclass in electro goodness…

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It’s not everyday that you can say that a record label inspired a whole genre,…

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That time Moby wanted to bring farm animals on stage for Top of the Pops… [October 1991]

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Having hit the top 20 with his single, Go, in October 1991, Moby was invited…

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Norman Cook lays it all bare… [October 1995]

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Just months before the launch of his first record as Fatboy Slim, Better Living Through…

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Happy birthday to New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, which turns 35 today… [March 1983]

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It’s hard to believe that Blue Monday, the track that cemented New Order’s transition from…

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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…

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‘Dope’ on plastic – ‘The Bomb’, 23 years later… [March 1995]

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

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Injected With A Poison’s strange, ecumenical origins…

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Injected With A Poison by Praga Khan is one of most frenetic rave tracks of…

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Hector and Cian go large… Ibiza 2001, Irish style [September 2001]

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Fair play to Galway-based DJ Cian Ó Cíobháin for digging this one out and posting…

  • Rave

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track [1991]

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There are few one-hit wonders better than the absolute rave belter that is Egyptian Empire’s…

  • Ireland

Check out Sasha rocking a castle party in County Louth back in 1993… [May 1993]

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Bellingham Castle, in County Louth, Ireland, is, according to the official website, ‘an elegant and…

  • Europe
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Thunderdome’s early TV commercials underline just how insane the whole gabber scene was…

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Daft Punk’s Discovery, 17 years later… [February 2001]

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

  • Rave
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This video for Carl Cox’s I Want You (Forever) is so 1991 it hurts…

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

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  • Ireland

Check out this video from the opening party of The Kitchen nightclub in Dublin… [February 1994]

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The Twin Peaks-sampling Go by Moby deserves to be held up as one of the…

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