For those lucky enough to have experienced them, the Creation parties will go down in history as arguably the finest unlicensed soirées Ireland has ever seen. 909originals caught up with Creation head honcho Cozzy, as well as several familiar names from Irish clubland, to recall those heady days. Also, check out some of their top…
Songwriter, composer, record producer, guitarist, musician, showman… Nile Rodgers needs no introduction. The Chic frontman has loaned his talents to artists ranging from David Bowie to Diana Ross, and from Grace Jones to Lady Gaga, and is showing no signs of slowing down, with Chic’s ninth album, It’s About Time, having been released just last…
“Top one, nice one, get sorted!” Last year marked 30 years in the music business for Mark Archer, better known as one half of Altern 8 and a true legend of the scene. If they were giving out knighthoods for services to rave, the Stafford native would arguably be at the top of the queue….
Last year, first-time author Johnny Proctor published one of the best books on the emergence of rave culture in Scotland, Ninety, which followed the exploits of 16-year-old Dundee United supporter Zico and his path from from terrace culture to the all-night party scene. Part autobiography, part nostalgia trip, Ninety encapsulated the experience of a generation…
Last year marked the 21st anniversary of Artform Records, founded by musical pioneer Jamie Anderson. Having grown up in a musical household in west London, Anderson cut his teeth in Bristol during the mid-90s – an exciting place and time for music – developing a reputation for a unique blend of house and techno that came to…
São Paulo native Victor Ruiz is fast becoming a household name on the techno circuit, remixing artists such as Moby, Stephan Bodzin and Dubfire, as well as playing some of the biggest venues and electronic music festivals in the world. Now based in Berlin, Ruiz plays Dublin’s 39/40 tonight (29 March), while his first release…
When you hit the bottom, there’s only one way to go… up. Just ask Chicago house producer Marcus Mixx, aka Marcus Shannon. In the three decades or so since he first started making music, Shannon has experienced it all – having his early productions championed by luminaries such as Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk, leading the A&R…
Trying to pigeonhole Matthew Herbert is an impossible task – from big band swing to classical reinterpretations to minimal techno (to capturing the sound of a farmyard animal from birth to death), it seems nothing is out of bounds for arguably the most idiosyncratic force in electronic music. Under a myriad of guises – Doctor…
They say that there are ‘no second acts in American lives’… but that’s clearly not the case in Scotland, where the one-time frontman of pioneering indie rockers The Soup Dragons, Sean Dickson, has reinvented himself as one of electronic music’s leading tunesmiths, HiFi Sean. Over the course of more than three decades, Sean has quite…
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…
