Happy Mondays set to release ‘pill edition’ of ‘Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches’
Happy Mondays have announced plans to release what has been described as a ‘pill edition’ of their 1990 album Pills…
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Global Underground’s Andy Horsfield chats to 909originals about the past, present and future of the iconic mix series
For many, Global Underground is more than just a series of DJ mixes, it’s a succession of pitstops along the…
How much do DJs get paid? This 1996 article sought to find out
Claims that dance music has ‘gone too commercial’ have been around since the formative years of acid house. When rave…
Paul Oakenfold talks to 909originals about his seminal ‘Goa Mix’
In the early hours of 18 December 1994, BBC Radio 1 broadcast what has come to be regarded as arguably…
Paul Oakenfold interviews Nicky Holloway… [July 1993]
The dance scene was barely of school-going age when Paul Oakenfold approached long-time friend (and colleague for the infamous 1987…
Check out this classic Essential Mix from Paul Oakenfold, broadcast 25 years ago today… [March 1994]
Approximately nine months before his epoch-defining Goa Mix for the Essential Mix, Paul Oakenfold’s second outing in the BBC studios,…
5 great BBC Essential Mixes from over the years
BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix was first broadcast on 30 October 1993, and while musical movements have come and gone…
Mutts, maracas and mullets… Why the video for Electra’s ‘Jibaro’ is a kitsch classic [August 1988]
Arguably THE quintessential Balearic Beat track of all time, Jibaro, by the Paul Oakenfold-led Electra, was released in August 1988,…
Paul Oakenfold tells NME about the emerging acid house scene… [October 1988]
“The official line is this. Yes, there are some drugs involved, but not as much as you’d like to think….