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…
In recent years, London-born Seamus Haji has become one of house music’s most celebrated producers and remixers, heading up the Big Love label and holding residencies in seminal nightspots such as Pacha and Eden in Ibiza and Ministry of Sound. As part of our ORIGINALS series, 909originals caught up with the Camberwell native to delve…
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…
There are few designers more closely aligned with the acid house scene than Dave Little, who was behind some of the most iconic flyer, graphic and album cover designs of the era, from Paul Oakenfold’s Spectrum to the Boy’s Own label. Having established a career as a jobbing designer in the 80s, Dave’s link to…
There are few people of whom it could be said that they were there at the ‘birth’ of a movement, but Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley is one such individual. As the maestro behind such early dance classics as Music Is The Key, Jack Your Body and Let The Music Take Control, Steve, along with other luminaries…
Legendary house DJ Graeme Park’s latest compilation, Long Live House Vol. 1: 1980s, was released today, 7 December, on triple CD and double vinyl. The compilation was inspired by Graeme’s 1980s residencies at clubs like The Garage in Nottingham, Manchester’s The Haçienda and The Leadmill in Sheffield, as well as the myriad of club nights…
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,…
As a producer and songwriter, TommyD, aka Tommy Danvers, has worked with everyone from Masters at Work to Kylie Minogue, as well as DJing at clubs such as Ministry of Sound, Space Ibiza, Cream and Twilo. In recent years, however, Danvers is perhaps better known as the co-creator of 8O8 Whisky, a spirit inspired by…
The dreadlocks may be long gone, but Philadelphia native Josh Wink remains a dynamic force in dance music, with a back catalogue – Don’t Laugh¸ I’m Ready and Higher State of Consciousness to name but a few – that most artists would die for. Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the formation of his Ovum Recordings…
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…
