If you needed someone to soundtrack this most unprecedented of years, Bob Holroyd might be a good person to ask – the Surrey-based producer’s extensive catalogue, which dates back to the early 90s, is just the tonic for these strange times, blending ambient electronica with experimental global beats. It was arguably Coldcut’s epic 70 Minutes of…
Having set the template for the ‘bleep’ movement with 1989’s The Theme, Unique 3’s combination of jacking house, urban hip hop and scything breakbeats made them one of the most influential groups of the acid house era. Comrpising Edzy (aka Adrian Collins), Cutz (Ian Park) and Delroy Brown, and signed to Virgin’s 10 Recordings, Unique…
The author F Scott Fitzgerald once remarked that “there are no second acts in American lives”, but Jamaica-born, New York-raised hip hop maestro Kurtis Mantronik would be likely to disagree. During the 1980s, Kurtis, born Kurtis el Khaleel, was responsible for some of the sickest beats in popular music as part of electro-funk duo Mantronix, a…
Reared in San Francisco and residing in Berlin, Kevin Knapp is a custodian of jackin’ house beats combined with hip hop sensibilities – as renowned for his work on the mic as he is on the ones and twos. With releases on Hot Creations, Dirtybird, Hottrax, Sola, Truesoul, Crosstown Rebels and more, Knapp enjoyed recent success…
Paul Woolford has been pushing musical boundaries since the turn of the Millennium. Under pseudonyms such as Special Request and Bobby Peru, as well as under his own name, the Leeds native has built a reputation one of dance music’s true chameleons, capable of crafting house, minimal techno, speed garage, 1992-era hardcore – you name it…
DJ legend Danny Rampling turns 59 today (15 July), and with his fabled Shoom clubnight recently hosting a number of parties, it seems the great man is continuing to do what he does best – keep people smiling. 909originals has delved into our vaults to uncover an interview with Rampling from November 1990, just a…
Three… it’s the magic number! 909originals celebrates its THIRD BIRTHDAY today, and we would like to thank all of our readers and followers for their continued support. Since we launched the site in the summer of 2017, we hope we’ve been able to live up to our promise of delivering ‘the stories behind the music’,…
As music industry execs go, Nick Halkes certainly has a story or two to tell. As one of the co-founders of XL Recordings in 1989, Halkes helped soundtrack the nascent rave scene – it was he who signed The Prodigy to the label, while also enjoying chart success with SL2, Liquid, House of Pain and others…
Few artists go as hand in hand with Berlin techno as Ellen Allien – having honed her craft at venues such as The Bunker, Tresor, and E-Werk in the early 1990s, she established the BPitch label in 1999, one of the German capital’s signature imprints. As well as managing BPitch, which is now into its…
Switzerland is well established as a bastion of electronic music (home to Sonja Moonear, Deetron, Thomas Fehlmann and Yello’s Boris Blank, among others), and over a 30-year career, Philippe Quenum, aka Quenum, has proven himself to be one of the most influential artists to emerge from the mountainous nation. Having immersed himself in the French…
