Will Sumsuch
Having just heard the sad news that the brilliant Lost My Dog Records are to close their doors in 2015, I must confess that writing this review feels bittersweet to say the least. Young Harry Wolfman is a producer...
"I had the feeling that if I could take a groove that is 20 years old and if I could flip it, I could get another 20 years out of it. It’s that simple."
Hard as it is to believe,...
DJ, producer and proud freak from Planet B*more, House legend Karizma has released the next edition of his Beats & Bobs series for free as a gift to DJs and fans for his birthday.
Beats & Bobbs Vol FR33 (get...
What defines a great record label? Is it the artwork & branding? Is it gathering together a roster of big names? Is it breaking fresh artists and pioneering new sounds? Although all of the above are clearly important to...
We all know the story by now. George Orwell wrote about it, as did Isaac Asimov. Living, as I do, in a country with more government-controlled surveillance cameras per capita than anywhere else in the world (the London borough...
Since DJ Shadow dropped Endtroducing on an unsuspecting World back in 1996, the bar for creative and original sample-based music was raised permanently. It seems a lifetime's worth of dedicated crate digging compressed into sixty-three glorious minutes was a...
The gradual resurgence of vinyl in the last few years, on the face of it, would seem to be nothing but good newls for House Music. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. As the bottom finally fell...
Chicago label Twirl made quite a splash on the international House scene with their show-stopping debut EP Journey Into The Deep back in October. Their second offering sees label founders Alinka and Shaun J. Wright getting together again for...
There's been quite a trend for throwback dance music of late. Barely a week goes by when I don't receive a slice of "authentic Chicago house from Romania". Drum loops lifted wholesale from an obscure Strictly Rhythm tune, 808...
Better known as Atjazz, UK producer Martin Iveson has been creating soulful, genre-defying dance music for more than two decades. His latest release on his own Atjazz Record Company is named after a certain Indian brand of beer, but...
If you (like so many British music journalists and tastemakers) lie awake at night worried that there just aren't enough dance music sub-genres ("Night Bus" or "UK Bass" anyone? No, I thought not.), your prayers have just been answered...
Ah, Stockholm. Home to beautiful people, endless summer nights, clean air and hordes of marauding Finns rampaging through the town on Booze Cruises from Helsinki... The city is also home to Oh!, one of Sweden's longest running club nights...
In a post-apocalyptic world where the fallout from the EDM Bomb has caused our musical landscape to resemble the set of a Mad Max movie, I imagine Karizma to be the supercool guy who pulls up in an air-conditioned...
Comedian Jack Black famously Tweeted: "I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people." Summoning up images of 'selfies' snapped in soulless chain bars and at EDM festivals, YOLO has taken on a meaning far removed...
I've long since abandoned any debates regarding the sync button vs. beatmatching because it's utterly pointless. However, if there's any point that can safely be hammered home and which everyone (except idiots) can agree on it's this: you...
Chez Damier is a man who requires no introduction from us, so when he announces a new project, any self-respecting deep house lover should stop whatever they're doing and pay attention (unless what they're doing happens to be performing...
Hallelujah - it's a release that is based around actual melodies rather than sampling! Andre Bonsor is no stranger to the world of House Music, being a member of Schmoov! and also having worked with acts like Lovebirds and...