Interview: ORIGINALS… Quenum

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… Roland Clark

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…

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Interview: Here come the drumz… 909originals chats to State Of Bass author Martin James about the origins of jungle and drum ‘n’ bass

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… Jerome Hill

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…

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Interview: ORIGINALS… Lee Burridge

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…

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