Lee Burridge has been carving a niche for upfront, uplifting house music for around three decades now, with plenty of landmarks along the way – his partnership with Craig Richards as Tyrant, the global 365 residency tour, and bringing electronic music to both Hong Kong’s club scene and Thailand’s infamous Full Moon parties. Since 2011, Burridge…
Before there was techno, before there was even music, there was the ‘drone’ – the primal, underlying sound that began with the earliest ancient civilisations – an aural expression of a universal hum we can only hope to fleetingly channel. The influence of the drone on music, ritual and popular culture is the subject of a new…
Good things often come in threes, and that’s certainly the case with the Thunder & Lightning EP, just released on Hot Creations, which sees Lee Foss, Detlef and Anabel Englund team up on an impressive collaboration. The two-track release, which was unveiled last Friday, marks the first time that Foss has teamed up with Greek…
He’s been described as a ‘benchmark setter’, and ‘the DJs DJ’… and in our eyes legendary selector John Digweed is so consistently reliable, you could set your watch by him. Having cut his teeth during the formative years of acid house, Digweed has defied definition over a close to thirty year career – blending house, trance,…
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’,…
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…
‘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…
“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….
