909originals is proud to announce that we will be hosting the Trailblazers podcast series each week on the site, featuring artists, DJs and visionaries who played a fundamental role in the development of the electronic music scene. Presented by Eddy Temple-Morris and Nick Halkes [check out our interview with the latter by CLICKING HERE], the…
If there was one music blog that could be truly said to be essential reading, it was that of legendary selector Greg Wilson, who announced yesterday that he was calling time on proceedings to focus on an arguably long-overdue magnum opus – a book about the ‘black music scene in the early-‘80s, and its crucial influence…
Taking his influences from sci-fi, surrealism, fantasy, futurism and graphic novels, Junior Tomlin is one of the best known artists associated with the early rave scene, having worked with seminal rave promoters such as Telepathy, Dreamscape, Slammin’ Vinyl, One Nation, Dream Odyssey and Ravealation, as well as record labels such as Kickin’ Records, React, ZTT…
Released in 1977, Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express saw the self-styled robots come of age – moving away from the Krautrock sensibilities of Autobahn and Radio-Activity towards a more minimalist electronic sound. No more was this evident than on the album’s title track, which along with the Metal on Metal/Abzug suite that follows it, bridged the period between…
It’s a little under three months since we said goodbye to musical alchemist Andrew Weatherall (sadly, not the only legendary figure to depart this mortal coil recently), and in the weeks since, a myriad of mixes, interviews and documentary footage (in particular the impressive Weatherdrive project) have underscored just what an influential figure the Screamadelica…
“Yeah, I’m losing my edgeI’m losing my edgeThe kids are coming up from behind…” It’s hard to believe that this summer marks the 18th birthday of LCD Soundsystem‘s Losing My Edge, released in July 2002 – a fable about maintaining musical relevance in a world being taken over by “better-looking people, with better ideas and more…
There are few tracks as synonymous with the birth of house music as Mr Fingers’ Can You Feel It, released in 1986 – the soundtrack to a million ‘hands in the air’ moments in the three decades since its release. But just over a decade on from setting the template for the flourishing scene to follow,…
Before there was electronic music, there was Delia Derbyshire. Produced in 2009, The Delian Mode is a fascinating snapshot of Derbyshire’s life and work. A pioneering composer of electronic music; she is perhaps best known by her work on the theme tune for Doctor Who (alongside Ron Grainer), which was recorded in 1963 at the…
There have been plenty of daytime soirees in Dublin’s clubbing history, but few linger in the memory better than Mixed Salad at McGruders on Thomas Street, which grew from a private Sunday sesh into a multi-storey jamboree for more than 600 party people over the space of a couple of years. The brainchild of the…
German rave pioneer WestBam, aka Maximilian Lenz, celebrates his 55th birthday today (4 March 1965), and with that in mind, 909originals has dived into the archives to uncover an interview the Münster-born artist gave to Frontpage Magazin in August 1995, to mark the tenth anniversary of his Low Spirit imprint. “At first we didn’t even…
