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MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.

Feature: African House

I don’t really ‘do’ football. I mean, I love to play and run around and kick people, but not many other people like it when I try. And so, in light of the World Cup starting this week, I thought I’d do a li’l swot up on something not-really-football-related in Time Out, but definitely related [...]

Interview: Sinden on Grizzly Recs and, erm, ‘Hutchface Sounds’

I’ve got lots and lots of time for (Graeme) Sinden. An illuminating DJ and genre-mangler, he’s got a regular show on Kiss Fm; he ran a successful dubwise house night with Sinden, Get Familiar, at Fabric; he got some of that chart and mainstream success with pal HervĂ© as The Count & BEEPER BEEPER BEEPER [...]

Some DJ-run labels what are good

Hallo again. So, this week I meant to publish my Kissy Sell Out interview before his label launch party at Vibe Bar on Brick Lane with Mixmag today, but I had an epic blog fail. I will will will will publish it in full, but Sinden scanned in the e-d-i-t-e-d version and you should all [...]

Interview: Erol Alkan (the easy-to-find version)

I realised this week that (OK, really late ‘d’oh’) that my Erol interview may not be the easiest thing to find. Maybe it’s because I didn’t use an Erol pic on my hompeage, or because I inserted one of those ‘oh god, can’t be arsed to click on it’ Read More tabs thingys. But anyhoos, [...]

Interview: Erol Alkan on Phantasy Sound

So, last week I did four interviews with three influential DJs who have all just started new labels. They’ll be out in my Clubbing section in Time Out tomorrow in their teeny tiniest IHAVENOSPACE versions, with profiles of their labels and big ol’ shiny pics of them all too (them being Simian Mobile Disco‘s James [...]

Interview: Pete Tong

I buzzed the dance music granddaddy after touch down in London to talk about the success of his Wonderland night at Eden in Ibiza and what it’s like to be back at Ministry of Sound.