Jon Pleased Wimmin has been an icon of the UK house scene for more than three decades. He first gained recognition as part of the cabaret act ‘The Pleased Wimmin’ at Glam at London’s Milk Bar, run by Danny Rampling, before moving behind the decks himself and opening his own Soho club, Pleased. It was…
The 909originals team is hitting the pause button for a couple of weeks as we take a much needed summer break. We’ll be back behind our desks on 6 August, so in the meantime, why not get reacquainted with some of this year’s interviews, explore the recent #MyRecordBag selections, or take a trip down the…
Happy birthday to us! 909originals marks another journey around the sun today as we celebrate our eighth birthday. We’re so thankful to all of our readers – hard to believe that what started as a part-time Sunday project would bloom into what it has become – to our amazing contributors, and to everybody we’ve had the chance…
Éalú Le Grá is a petit bijou music and experiential extravaganza, hosting its fifth anniversary edition over the June Bank Holiday weekend, with a trojan line-up of cutting-edge Irish warriors and international gladiators, including Hammer, Christopher Coe, Fabe, Aoife Nic Canna, Tara Casey, Ronan Ó Snodaigh, and Natural Symphony. There are many other electronic music…
DJ, writer and Balearic regular Rosie Riot chats to Ibiza Global Radio director and DJ Igor Marijuan about IMS, Ibiza’s evolving musical landscape, and balancing multiple projects. Think of Ibiza and you may conjure up images of hyper-club hysteria and sunsets in San Antonio. But for those who have placed themselves behind another facet of…
Melbourne-born, Berlin-based drummer and producer Ziggy Zeitgeist has gathered an array of global talent for his latest Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange album, Inspire/Radicalise, which showcases the collective’s signature ‘hi-tech jazz’ sound. Having performed at venues and events such as Church of Sound, We Out Here Festival and Melt Festival, the current Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange…
Matador, aka Irish producer Gavin Lynch, has been rocking dancefloors since the mid 2000s, cutting his teeth at Dublin venues such as Switch, Tripod and McGruders before going on to play festivals such as Awakenings, Sonus, and Tomorrowland, as well as global venues including Space Ibiza, DC-10, and Stereo Montreal. The Ibiza-based artist is a…
Flatfoot Sam has been immersed in the UK dance scene since the mid 90s, evolving his sound from hardcore to techno to nu-nrg and hosting the Depth Charge boat parties in Southampton in the early-to-mid 2000s. As the first pandemic lockdown hit in 2020, Flatty, as he is affectionately known, harnessed his creative capabilities to…
In January of this year, Beatport recognised Grace Dahl as one of its ‘next class’ of up and coming DJs – the latest acknowledgement for the rising techno talent and SDT Recordings label head. Born in Hungary to a Finnish mother and Hungarian father, and raised in Amsterdam, Dahl was immersed in electronic music at…
Few artists have defied convention over the years like Alex Paterson, figurehead of The Orb – having immersed himself in punk and dub reggae as a teen, he went on to roadie for rockers Killing Joke, worked in A&R for Brian Eno‘s label, E.G. Records, and somewhere along the line not only created ambient house, but…
