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Dance music invades the (commercial) airwaves… [January 1995]

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This year, as many of you know, marks the 25th anniversary of the first BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, broadcast…

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“The names have been changed to protect the innocent…” There are debut singles, and then there’s Beat Dis, the first…

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It’s not often that you see Happy Mondays’ frontman Shaun Ryder get all emotional, but then again, Tony Wilson had…

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You’ve heard the one about the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty buying up two old Saracen tanks and turning them into ‘weapons of…

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Armand Van Helden turns 48 tomorrow, and so for this week’s Throwback Thursday, we recall the record that arguably sprung…

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It’s been 29 years since producer Satoshi Tomiie recorded one of THE standout house anthems, alongside the late Frankie Knuckles:…

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Whisper it quietly, but the evenings are starting to get longer. Ok, as I write this, the temperature hasn’t been…

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What goes up, must come down, as the old expression goes. Long before The Orb, Mixmaster Morris or Thievery Corporation were…

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It’s been doing the rounds one YouTube for some time, but now it’s finally come of age. This legendary footage…

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“At the end, you probably don’t hear anything, everything just goes black.” This famous (albeit misquoted) line from one of…