When you hit the bottom, there’s only one way to go… up. Just ask Chicago house producer Marcus Mixx, aka Marcus Shannon. In the three decades or so since he first started making music, Shannon has experienced it all – having his early productions championed by luminaries such as Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk, leading the A&R…
Trying to pigeonhole Matthew Herbert is an impossible task – from big band swing to classical reinterpretations to minimal techno (to capturing the sound of a farmyard animal from birth to death), it seems nothing is out of bounds for arguably the most idiosyncratic force in electronic music. Under a myriad of guises – Doctor…
They say that there are ‘no second acts in American lives’… but that’s clearly not the case in Scotland, where the one-time frontman of pioneering indie rockers The Soup Dragons, Sean Dickson, has reinvented himself as one of electronic music’s leading tunesmiths, HiFi Sean. Over the course of more than three decades, Sean has quite…
In the beginning, there was house music… and there was TRAX Records. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of the legendary Chicago label, and over the next few months, 909originals will be featuring a series of interviews, artist profiles and features, in an exclusive tie-up. But while TRAX has built an important…
In recent years, London-born Seamus Haji has become one of house music’s most celebrated producers and remixers, heading up the Big Love label and holding residencies in seminal nightspots such as Pacha and Eden in Ibiza and Ministry of Sound. As part of our ORIGINALS series, 909originals caught up with the Camberwell native to delve…
There are few people of whom it could be said that they were there at the ‘birth’ of a movement, but Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley is one such individual. As the maestro behind such early dance classics as Music Is The Key, Jack Your Body and Let The Music Take Control, Steve, along with other luminaries…
The Berlin techno scene of today owes a good deal of gratitude to Mijk van Dijk, who as well as releasing music under the guise of Microglobe and Marmion (alongside Marcos Lopez), was one of the instigators of the trance movement, with the compilation Tranceformed From Beyond in 1992. Still making music to this day,…
The dreadlocks may be long gone, but Philadelphia native Josh Wink remains a dynamic force in dance music, with a back catalogue – Don’t Laugh¸ I’m Ready and Higher State of Consciousness to name but a few – that most artists would die for. Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the formation of his Ovum Recordings…
Do you know your Schaeffer from your Stockhausen? Understand the nuances of Russolo’s Art Of Noise manifesto? Or consider the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Delia Derbyshire to be up there with Autechre and Aphex Twin? If, like us, at 909originals, the answer is likely ‘no’, a new book by David Stubbs, Mars By 1980, is essential…
The name CJ Mackintosh has been inexorably linked to the clubbing scene for more than 30 years, having made his name as both a former winner of the UK DMC Mix Championships, and as a key figure behind 1987 crossover dance hit Pump Up The Volume, by M|A|R|R|S. As part of our ORIGINALS series, 909originals…
