There’s no doubt that the summer of 1988 marked a watershed moment in the history of dance, as the house rhythms of Chicago, artistic exuberance of Ibiza, and electronic soundscapes of Detroit surged through club culture. Acid house had arrived. With this in mind, 909originals presents ‘Postcards from 88’, a series that sees leading DJs,…
We continue our look back at 909originals’ biggest stories of the year with our interview with the legendary Greg Wilson, which formed part of our Postcards from 88 series. Q. Do you remember what you were doing as the Summer of 1988 started? I’d moved to London in 1987, having stopped DJing a few years…
Steve Mac releases the second single from his forthcoming album Bless This Acid House this week, which sees the Jack Said What co-label head teaming up with house legend Robert Owens. The track, One Day, is released on 22 February, and is backed by remixes by Luca LeBleu and ITHURTZ. Best known for his work…
Today (29 July) sees the release of ’30 Something’, a new album by Orbital that features series of reworks, remakes, rarities and re-imaginings of landmark hits, as well as a couple of new tracks that have already received a fair few airings during the Hartnoll brothers’ summer tour. Check out new single Smiley, for example,…
Arguably the quintessential book on the rise of the DJ, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton’s Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey is set to be re-released by White Rabbit Books in July, featuring a new foreword by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Originally released in 1999, the book…
The mid-90s were a halcyon period for music videos, and few were as striking as the short film to accompany Orbital‘s The Box, released on 15 April 1996. In keeping with the mood established by preceding album Snivilisation, The Box (along with the album that accompanied it, In Sides) marked a departure from the straight…
Originally published in 1999, Sheryl Garratt’s Adventures in Wonderland is a fascinating account of the first decade (or thereabouts) of club culture, documenting house music’s rise from the underground Chicago scene to international prominence. Now, the book has been re-released with a new cover, new introduction, and updated for a modern audience. It’s available from…
Continuing our look at some of our biggest stories of the year, in August, as part of our Postcards from 88 series, we caught up with former The Face editor Sheryl Garratt, who was at the forefront of chronicling the acid house era as it happened. Q. Do you remember what you were doing as…
Before there was Creamfields, or Cream Ibiza, there was Cream, the hedonistic nightspot on Liverpool’s Wolstenholme Square, which opened on this day, 17 October, in 1992. One of the first ‘superclubs’, Cream attracted party animals from across the UK and Ireland during its mid- to late-90s peak,; back then, Dublin was just a three-hour ferry…
After a summer-long build-up that has taken in a barrage of gigs, and an amusing social media campaign (the planet, in case you haven’t heard, is P.H.U.K.ed), the day has finally arrived – Orbital’s ninth album, Monsters Exist, is released today (14 September). As die-hard Orbital aficionados (909originals included) will have noticed, the title of…
