When the annals of dance music come to be written, Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy will likely go down as one of the all-time masterpieces. Having been released earlier that month,

The Twin Peaks-sampling Go by Moby deserves to be held up as one of the epoch-defining tracks of the 90s, However, along with the familiar Woodtick Mix, arguably the best

This year, as many of you know, marks the 25th anniversary of the first BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, broadcast on October 30 of that year. But while the broadcast

“The names have been changed to protect the innocent…” There are debut singles, and then there’s Beat Dis, the first release by Bomb The Bass, the alter ego of producer

It’s not often that you see Happy Mondays’ frontman Shaun Ryder get all emotional, but then again, Tony Wilson had that effect on people. Today, 20 February, marks what would

You’ve heard the one about the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty buying up two old Saracen tanks and turning them into ‘weapons of audio destruction’, right? Back in 1996, Cauty picked up the

Armand Van Helden turns 48 tomorrow, and so for this week’s Throwback Thursday, we recall the record that arguably sprung the Boston native to superstardom, 1994’s Witch Doktor. Having received

It’s been 29 years since producer Satoshi Tomiie recorded one of THE standout house anthems, alongside the late Frankie Knuckles: Tears. But I’ve always wondered how the Tokyo-born Tomiie ended

Whisper it quietly, but the evenings are starting to get longer. Ok, as I write this, the temperature hasn’t been above two degrees for days, and it’s getting increasingly difficult

What goes up, must come down, as the old expression goes. Long before The Orb, Mixmaster Morris or Thievery Corporation were crafting the perfect soundtrack to the post-club chill, classical music