MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
I’ve also just found the first Mixmag piece I wrote this year on the delightful house DJ Cassy as part of their ‘Queens of the Underground’ cover feature in May. At some point, I’ll post the interview in full because she was quite simply just awesome. But for now, here she is talking about Miami [...]
I interviewed James Priestley and Giles Smith at length about their innovative all-day Sunday rave-up Secretsundaze for Mixmag. It originally appearred in the magazine’s August issue, but I’ve just found it online too. SPECIAL. Here is a snippet about Carl Craig getting down on his knees: “I’ve made Carl Craig crawl through a fence before [...]
Like Hyperdub, Hotflush, Hemlock and other labels beginning with ‘H’, Hessle Audio is redefining the sound of UK dance music. It procures a futuristic blend of homegrown genres like dubstep, house, garage and jungle – a genreless smörgåsbord represented in mainstream by BBC Sound of 2011 winner James Blake, who released a single on the [...]
I’m not having the best of days: angry emails from jumped-up and ungrateful promoters; listings system crashing on deadline day, that sort of thing. But I’m really looking forward to sinking some serious Mojito-age at East Village tonight. I’ve picked some DJs. We’ve put them on. And I think they’re rather ruddy brilliant. So I [...]