How do you follow up a track like Voodoo Ray? Back in 1989, around nine months on from its first appearance in the clubs (and to coincide with its entry in the pop charts), Sounds sent John Robb to Moss Side, Manchester, to meet Gerald Simpson, aka A Guy Called Gerald, to uncover what the…
Now considered a member of techno’s premier league, Dave Clarke first became a household name with his Directional Force work on R&S in the early 90s, as well as the now legendary Red trilogy on Bush Records… This interview with Ben Turner of MUZIK magazine from August 1995, finds the then 26-year-old Clarke in chipper form,…
While David Morales cut his teeth in the 1980s, both as an accomplished remixer and a protege to Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage, in 1993 the Brooklyn-born DJ would find international acclaim with Gimme Luv, published on Mercury Records… Within ten years (helped no end by the Chi-Lites sampling Needin U in 1998), he would…
