Gerald Simpson, aka A Guy Called Gerald, has been at the forefront of numerous musical genres over his 30-plus year career – having forged a path for acid house with Voodoo Ray and his work with 808 State, he followed that up in the 90s with arguably the best jungle album of all time, Black…
There was a time in the mid 90s when you couldn’t set foot inside a nightclub without hearing Stretch & Vern’s I’m Alive, such was the crossover success of Jules ‘Vern’ Peake and Stuart ‘Stretch’ Silvester’s dancefloor smash. The duo followed that up with the stomping Get Up! Go Insane! in 1997, a pivotal record…
“I have no desire to be in the limelight, I’m a lot happier staying in the backroom, keeping myself to myself.” In 1991, Melody Maker journalist Push interviewed ‘the most sought-after remixing whiz-kid of the Nineties’ – an individual who would go on to paint an unmatched musical tapestry over the coming three decades: Andrew Weatherall….
The world of techno is a more interesting place thanks to people like Jerome Hill, one of the true understated heroes of the scene. The London native has been destroying dancefloors since the early 90s, earning his stripes on the warehouse party circuit before establishing the pioneering label Don’t (which ‘stands against the blandness, false…
There are few artists as synonymous with hard-edged electronica as Dave Clarke, but the self-styled ‘baron of techno’ has long shown that he isn’t afraid to broaden his musical horizons. In the past few months, for example, Clarke has unveiled a new radio show, the Saga Series, to echo his long-running White Noise, as well…
If the ‘Madchester’ era could be summed up in one frontman, it would undoubtedly be Shaun Ryder, the Happy Mondays’ lead singer, whose stage presence was only matched (or in this case, exceeded) by 20-plus years of glorious hedonism. As the man himself will tell you, when he was younger, he was a bit of…
For someone that first plied his trade as a mobile DJ back in the mid-80s, Lee Burridge is showing no signs of running out of steam. Over the past three decades, the Dorset native has been at the forefront of countless musical movements – launching the underground club scene in Hong Kong, helping to bring electronic…
In the early hours of 18 December 1994, BBC Radio 1 broadcast what has come to be regarded as arguably the most influential Essential Mix of all-time, and a benchmark setter for mixes in general, Paul Oakenfold‘s celebrated Goa Mix. As you might expect from its title, the mix was influenced by the Goa party…
There was a time, around the mid 90s to early 2000s, when it seemed Seb Fontaine was everywhere. And with good reason. Having kicked off his career in the haze of the acid house era, Seb is one of the most prolific DJs and producers in dance music – his resumé includes residencies at classic venues…
There’s very little that can be written about Greg Wilson that hasn’t already been said, such is the Merseyside native’s influence on dance culture over a more than four-decade period. Kicking off his DJ career at the age of just 15, in his hometown of New Brighton, Wilson came into his own during the late…
