He called it Acid - DJ Pierre
DJ Pierre is one of the pioneers of house music, and more specifically acid house music. With a recoding career spanning 25 years, releasing seminal cuts on labels such as Traxx, DJ Pierre was first inspired to get involved with music by the twin powers of Chicago’s Hot Mix 5 and Ron Hardy at t...
BOE Recordings – Ben Parkinson
Although only on their fourth 12” release, the small and cuddly label BOE recordings family are making a name for themselves as the standard bearers of a resurgent house scene. With whippersnapper upstarts KINK and Burnski releasing some of their best work to date on the label, and every one of...
Future Proof? - Get Physical’s new breed on the state of dance music.
Dance music is in a period of flux. Music sales are falling, the death of the major label is predicted, creating both problems and opportunities, and the proliferation of better, cheaper computers as well as equipment is changing the way music is made forever. However where there is confusion,...
Alex Paterson / The Orb
Do you have any advice on how to stay on top of the music business for so long, how to be popular all the time without making compromises? Was that a question or compliment? A question. Ok, but thank you anyway. Well, the most important thing is to be true to yourself, to ha...
Pole - Interview
Heavy bass and very strange sounds are dominating a large part of today’s underground music scene. Whether it is dub-step originator Shackleton, Mercury Prize nominee Burial or Ricardo Villalobos, it seems that everyone wants a bit of the dark dub action. Electronic Beats thought then it was time...
Graham Massey / Sisters Of Transistor - Interview
The Sisters Of Transistor is the latest project of Graham Massey, one of the founding fathers of Techno as we know it today. His latest adventure however is poles apart from 808 State. Here, he joins forces with four organists for a baroque horror disco extravaganza, complete with harmonised sing...
Neonman - Waiting For The Man - Interview
Neonman is an Anglo-German partnership, in which the only thing they can definitely agree on is a mutual love for Guns N’ Roses (a rare thing and coincidently a love shared by their interviewer). They have just released their second album on Berlin’s guardian of new talent, Pale Music. With a sou...
Luke Solomon
Luke Solomon has been flying the flag for house music (of the bumping jacking variety) for as long as I can remember. With his band the Freaks, alongside Stella Attar, Justin Harris and Johnny Rock they bought underground house to the masses with their massive single; The Creeps. Classic Recordin...
Monika Kruse
Monika Kruse, is one of Germanys biggest DJ’s, playing a mix of high-energy techno and house to clubbers all over the world. From humble beginnings, DJ’ing in a local bar, she soon made the step to organising her own raves, everywhere from abandoned bunkers, to not quite abandoned military base...
Danny Tenaglia - Interview
One of the most successful New York DJ’s who broke out of the city in the early 90’s, Danny Tenaglia, has championed both the tribal sound, and the mammoth set. With a new residency in Ibiza’s cathedral of decadence, Space, and a mix to match Danny Tenaglia managed to find a very quick five min...
Senor Coconut - Put the lime in the coconut - Interview
Uwe Schmidt, has been making Latin influenced music as Senor Coconut for over 10 years, but it wasn’t always cha-cha and bossa nova for the Frankfurt native. A drum kit, EBM and acid house all appear in a musical career that has seen him release work under 40 different aliases. On his latest al...
Roland Appel - Interview
Working as part of trio or a group for your whole musical career must be a comforting thing, especially when one of those groups is the Trüby Trio. Probably even more so when you make up a significant part of critically acclaimed Fauna Flash, and quirky disco posters Voom Voom. However, Roland...
The Whip - Are gonna get you trashed?
It all started when we all ran out and bought the Kitsuné compilation records like there was no tomorrow and couldn’t stop listening to that one track, you know the one that you have to sing along too, ‘I wanna be Trash’. The Whip is the band responsible for that indie-electro gem and...