Armand Van Helden and A-Trak have marked the return of their Duck Sauce project with a two-track release, Can’t Stop/Boogie In Your Butt. The new release, which has just landed on London label D4 D4NCE, follows on from their previous releases on the label, including LALALA, released in 2023, and Clap Your Feet featuring Fuzzy…
One of the country’s hidden festival gems, Open Ear Festival is set to return to Sherkin Island in West Cork from May 31 to June 2, 2024. This intimate event, now in its sixth edition, is known for its focus on experimental electronica and unconventional sounds. This year’s lineup includes a diverse range of artists…
With more than three decades in electronic music behind her, DJ Paulette is a bona fide legend as far as the 909originals team is concerned, and her forthcoming autobiography, Welcome To The Club – The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ, is set to be something special. Described as a ‘positive, life affirming…
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Of all the individuals we have chatted to at 909originals in our seven-year history, Richard Norris has to be one of our favourites – The Grid and Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve artist has collaborations with everyone from Joe Strummer to Timothy Leary to Genesis P-Orridge in his archive, has produced an unlikely chart topper in the…
DJ 3000 has long been connected to the world of Detroit techno, having been given his alias by no other than ‘Mad’ Mike Banks of Underground Resistance, following on from the release of the Somewhere in Detroit mix series on Submerge Recordings. His upcoming album, Mezë, on his own Motech Records, exhibits the techno sound…
Following on from his appearance on Nicole Moudaber‘s MOOD label last year, Chris Liebing has teamed up with the Lebanese/British artist on a forthcoming EP on CLR, I Will Be A Devil Until I Am An Angel. Set to be released on 24 November, the release features two tracks, Watch Me Choose You and When…
With his 2004 compilation, Rio Baile Funk Favela Booty Beats, Berlin-based DJ and producer Daniel Haaksman helped introduce the world to the scything electronic/hip hop hybrid known as Baile Funk, or as it’s called in its native Brazil, Funk Carioca. His Man Recordings label, established in 2005, has provided a home for artists such as…
“Travelling in the fastlanefuture techno on my brainnothing stays the samebut human I’ll remain…” Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins has revived his legendary act Cybotron to release a new EP on Tresor Records, Maintain The Golden Ratio. The EP is the first new release from Cybotron, in 28 years, and was produced by Atkins alongside…
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…
