As part of our look back at the biggest stories of 2018, here’s our interview with CJ Mackintosh, as part of our ORIGINS series. The name CJ Mackintosh has been inexorably linked to the clubbing scene for more than 30 years, having made his name as both a former winner of the UK DMC Mix…
It’s customary at this time of year to relax over a hot toddy and reminisce about the 12 months just passed… Over the next few days, we recap 909originals’ biggest stories of the year, starting with our ORIGINS interview with techno baron Dave Clarke, which featured on the site in August. From his early years…
The Berlin techno scene of today owes a good deal of gratitude to Mijk van Dijk, who as well as releasing music under the guise of Microglobe and Marmion (alongside Marcos Lopez), was one of the instigators of the trance movement, with the compilation Tranceformed From Beyond in 1992. Still making music to this day,…
There’s no doubt that the summer of 1988 marked a watershed moment in the history of dance, as the house rhythms of Chicago, artistic exuberance of Ibiza, and electronic soundscapes of Detroit surged through club culture. Acid house had arrived. With this in mind, 909originals presents ‘Postcards from 88’, a series that sees leading DJs,…
There’s no doubt that the summer of 1988 marked a watershed moment in the history of dance, as the house rhythms of Chicago, artistic exuberance of Ibiza, and electronic soundscapes of Detroit surged through club culture. Acid house had arrived. With this in mind, 909originals presents ‘Postcards from 88’, a series that sees leading DJs,…
There’s no doubt that the summer of 1988 marked a watershed moment in the history of dance, as the house rhythms of Chicago, artistic exuberance of Ibiza, and electronic soundscapes of Detroit surged through club culture. Acid house had arrived. With this in mind, 909originals presents ‘Postcards from 88’, a series that sees leading DJs,…
There’s no doubt that the summer of 1988 marked a watershed moment in the history of dance, as the house rhythms of Chicago, artistic exuberance of Ibiza, and electronic soundscapes of Detroit surged through club culture. Acid house had arrived. With this in mind, 909originals presents ‘Postcards from 88’, a series that sees leading DJs,…
There’s no doubt that the summer of 1988 marked a watershed moment in the history of dance, as the house rhythms of Chicago, artistic exuberance of Ibiza, and electronic soundscapes of Detroit surged through club culture. Acid house had arrived. With this in mind, 909originals presents ‘Postcards from 88’, a series that sees leading DJs,…
Last night (25 October), 909originals was named the Best Music Blog at the Blog Awards Ireland 2018, an acknowledgement that means so much to us. When the blog was founded in July 2017 – on the 40th anniversary of the release of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love – the objective was simple: to try to catalog…
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…
