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…
For those looking for creative inspiration during lockdown, London based recording artist Third Son, aka Joseph Thomas Price has just unveiled his debut album, 20 Days, recorded and mastered in, yes, you guessed it, 20 days. Put together at his home studio and released on the Polymath label, the first note of the album was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
