Laurent Garner has always been one of techno’s more imaginative producers, following up early rave stompers with The Man With The Red Face and more ambient work such as The Cloud Making Machine. This interview with Top DJ Mag from 1994 finds the Frenchman, sporting a Save Vinyl t-shirt, in playful form, particularly when it…
Earlier this year, Shortlist published one of the most life affirming posts on the rave scene, writing about a video that has been doing the rounds on YouTube for a couple of years now, entitled, Old School Rave – The Morning After The Night Before… Documenting the morning after a Fantazia new year party, it’s…
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…
