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…
DJ, producer, vocalist, songwriter, label owner… Roland Clark may well be one of the hardest working individuals in dance music. Raised in New Jersey, Clark cut his teeth under pseudonyms such as Urban Soul, Jesus Jackson and South Street Player, with his productions interwoven with the New York dance scene of the late 80s and…
Do you know what you were doing a decade ago? In the case of Jaime Alguersuari, it was a time spent at circuits such as Silverstone, Monza and Monaco, with the young Spaniard a rising star in Formula One, as part of the Ferrari-powered Scuderia Toro Rosso team. Departure from the ‘fast lane’, however, opened…
Emerging out of the melting pot of broken Britain in the early 90s, jungle (and drum ‘n’ bass, which followed later) was like no musical movement heretofore experienced, as a new generation of artists blended old school attitude and new school innovation. First published in the mid-90s, State of Bass tells the story of the scene’s…
‘As techno and house have become less underground and moved to the main stages of major festivals they have become soft. Infolines aims a different course. These tracks are aimed straight for the floor. Three minute breakdowns are out, the groove is in…’ So reads the manifesto for Infolines, a new label setup by Detroit-based…
Bursting into the mainstream with acid house classic 1995’s Higher State Of Consciousness, the seeds of Josh Wink‘s musical career were sown a few years previous to that, as he helped set up Philadelphia‘s first warehouse parties in the late 80s before teaming up with future Ovum Records partner King Britt to release E-Culture in…
