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 [...]
Look how excited he is! Yes, Mylo, he of “Da da da da, drop the pressure” fame is back. He has been, like, throwing underground parties an’ that at Dalston Superstore in east London for most of the year. But on October 8, he gonna take it to XOYO once more with Ed Banger young [...]
Online video/radio broadcast The Boiler Room is so hot darn exciting it makes me feel funny in my ladyparts. They take some of the best cutting edge DJs from London and beyond, stick ’em in a south London warehouse in front of a webcam to spin their heart out and let lossa dubstep fanboy tweens [...]
Cramming Andrew Weatherall’s vast, multi-genred career into a teensy paragraph feels quite unjust. Not least because, while many of his acid house contemporaries have wafted away with the spirit of ’89, bushy-faced Weatherall has remained ahead of the curve. His sonic CV dances through helping to kickstart Britain’s rave-in-a-field dance culture as part of fanzine [...]
This month, I got the chance to chat for an exceedingly long time about what every superstar DJ dreams of talking about in an interview: Basingstoke. Or as James Zabiela, my incredibly patient DJ interviewee likes to call it: Amazingstoke. But aside from talking up my home town, he also chats about his new label, [...]
There still ain’t many compared to the blokey blokesteppas, but here’s an article I wrote on women in dubstep for Time Out in 2008, including Ikonika. I think it’s still relevant. www.timeout.com/london/clubs/features/5005/Women_in_dubstep.html
Should nu-disco be filed under so last year? Well, judging by the biggest dance track to turn up the heat this summer, it’s not ready for the bargain racks just yet. For anyone who hasn’t turned their ears onto Tensnake yet, the Hamburg-based producer has cooked up a deliciously infectious slice of nu-disco, ‘Coma Cat’ [...]
He may look like your Bacardi Breezer-swilling 15-year-old bruv, but this is actually Geeneus, one of the firebrands behind legendary (and bloody brilliant) London underground radio station Rinse FM. I don’t know why I’ve got into the habit of interviewing sullen dance music nerdos lately, but there you have it. Maybe it’s their musk. Anyway, [...]
Drum ’n’ bass’s brightest spark, Sub Focus, headlined Time Out Live‘s latest Nite Sessions club night at East Village last Friday. Needless to say, he tore the Shoreditch club a new earhole – albeit a very blokey, very bolshy earhole. Since Ram Records boss Andy C tracked him down after being handed a demo tape [...]
You can get the abridged version of this interview in Time Out this week, but to read it in full, check it after the jump. DJ History on the record player revolutionaries Some DJs are more than just nerdy looking blokes flipping records on and off some decks. Or, these days, should we say: more [...]