In the beginning, there was house music… and there was TRAX Records. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of the legendary Chicago label, and over the next few months, 909originals will be featuring a series of interviews, artist profiles and features, in an exclusive tie-up. But while TRAX has built an important…
Do you know your Schaeffer from your Stockhausen? Understand the nuances of Russolo’s Art Of Noise manifesto? Or consider the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Delia Derbyshire to be up there with Autechre and Aphex Twin? If, like us, at 909originals, the answer is likely ‘no’, a new book by David Stubbs, Mars By 1980, is essential…
Few DJs can claim to be at the epicentre of a movement, but as resident DJ at the Haçienda in 1988, Graeme Park was at the forefront of the acid house wave. From those legendary Nude nights in the famous Manchester nightspot, through to shows on Kiss FM, Galaxy and Radio City, not to mention…
Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, and now based in Berlin, Juliet Fox has crafted a reputation for her upfront techno sound on labels such as Drumcode, Filth On Acid and Kraftek, as well as her own Tregambe label, which she founded in 2020. Earlier this month, she had the pleasure of opening the main stage at…
Few early trance tracks were as influential as Marmion’s Schöneberg, which was initially released by the Mijk van Dijk and Marcos López-helmed outfit in 1993, on the Berlin EP. Blending elements of techno, house and trance, the track is an aural time capsule of the German capital’s rave scene in the early 90s, which emerged…
909originals turns four years old today (7 July), and it’s fair to say that we’re delighted with how things have gone so far. This past year has been anything but normal due to the coronavirus pandemic, but we’ve endeavoured to keep your spirits high with a myriad of interviews, features and even ‘Under The Stairs’…
Lee Burridge has been carving a niche for upfront, uplifting house music for around three decades now, with plenty of landmarks along the way – his partnership with Craig Richards as Tyrant, the global 365 residency tour, and bringing electronic music to both Hong Kong’s club scene and Thailand’s infamous Full Moon parties. Since 2011, Burridge…
‘As techno and house have become less underground and moved to the main stages of major festivals they have become soft. Infolines aims a different course. These tracks are aimed straight for the floor. Three minute breakdowns are out, the groove is in…’ So reads the manifesto for Infolines, a new label setup by Detroit-based…
Bursting into the mainstream with acid house classic 1995’s Higher State Of Consciousness, the seeds of Josh Wink‘s musical career were sown a few years previous to that, as he helped set up Philadelphia‘s first warehouse parties in the late 80s before teaming up with future Ovum Records partner King Britt to release E-Culture in…
There are few artists as synonymous with hard-edged electronica as Dave Clarke, but the self-styled ‘baron of techno’ has long shown that he isn’t afraid to broaden his musical horizons. In the past few months, for example, Clarke has unveiled a new radio show, the Saga Series, to echo his long-running White Noise, as well…
