Interview: From Tannadice to Ibiza… 909originals chats to Ninety Six author Johnny Proctor

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… Jamie Anderson

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… Marcus Mixx

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… Matthew Herbert

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… HiFi Sean

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…

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