“The big wheel keeps on turning, On a simple line day by day, The earth spins on its axis, One man struggle while another relaxes…” Spawning a whole new genre

Something magical was obviously in the air on 6 April 1963, as both Detroit legend Derrick May and Andrew Weatherall share the same birthday. As a producer, remixer, DJ and

Today, 6 April, marks Derrick May‘s 55th birthday, and it’s a sign of an unyielding devotion to quality techno that May, one third of the famed ‘Belleville Three’, is still

Rarely pictured without a ‘Gitanes’ in his mouth (and buxom blonde under his arm), legendary French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg would have turned 90 years old this week… Back in 2002,

A funny thought came to me last night, what if Donald Trump’s election platform had been founded on protecting American techno? The much-mooted ‘Wall’ would likely be a Funktion One

Paris in the 1990s was a special time and place for electronic music, seeing the emergence of artists such as Daft Punk and Laurent Garnier, as well as clubs like

Hell hath no fury like Mad Mike scorned, as this article from MUZIK magazine in August 1996 demonstrates. The Underground Resistance head honcho sent a fax (remember them?) to the

“The feeling, the feedback that you get from the people in the room, is very, very spiritual. The Warehouse was a lot like that. For most of the people that

If you were looking for evidence as to just how incredible the dance scene was ‘back then’, this playlist does exactly what it says on the tin… The good people

Of all the stars of the rave scene that were gone too soon, Caspar Pound arguably shone the brightest. As the founder of Rising High Records, Pound, who died in