Features
Here's where you can thumb through our huge yellowing archive of magazine features stretching back to the neolithic period: classic moments in dance music history, captured by the finest writers on the subject. We're adding new ones all the time so keep checking back.
Yes, it's back again! The Furtive 50, our yearly recap of the year's bestest tracks as voted for by you, and an assortment of hipster's, blokes the wrong side of 40 and men with beards and a severly limited social life. Behold the results for 2011.
It’s that time again, the time when we unleash the homing pigeons, send out the smoke signals and invite you all via the means of the internet to vote on your chart toppers from the past year. We get all the losers that hang around on our forum as well a plethora of our favourite DJs, producers, road sweepers and the bloke who used to shout “be a winner not a sinner” at Oxford Circus to vote for their favourite tracks of the year as well as their number one album. This year we saw...
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Daniel Wang, in the sleevenotes to the Horse Meat Disco III compilation, evokes the ghosts of disco, from Andrew Holleran’s elegaic immortalisation of early 70s New York to the current queer disco explosion in clubs like Tape in Berlin and, of course, The Eagle in Vauxhall.
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Every year we get all our forum members and selected fave DJs to let us in on what has got them sonically excited over the past year. Here are the results from way back in 2008.
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Richard Smith outs the inside of a gay club in the mid '90s with a tale of drugs, music, sweat, boys and a shared experience encompassing everything that is good inside and bad outside.
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Back once again with the ill behaviour! The Furtive 50 returns.
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Back in 1992 in Mixmag Dom Phillips reported on the sound we now know as the roots of jungle and drum & bass.
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The first ever article in the British press about the new sound of Detroit. John McCready investigates.
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Live from Jellybean's Funhouse, where Richard Grabel checks out the new electro disco Saturday night fever.
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In the next episode of Damon Fairclough's excellent mixtapes, we alight upon his paean to the KPM catalogue, all bound up in a severe bout of tonsilitis and a generous helping of the right drugs....
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Damon Fairclough returns once more with another fantastic episode in our unfolding Do Us A Tape series. This time, he focuses on the summer, all shimmer and rain, with accompanying music by ARP, Sun Ra, tUnE-yArDs, Theo Parrish and many others. It is, dare we say it, a literary and aural delight.
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100 Great Dance Records? That’s a debate that will never be resolved. But The Guardian’s wrong-headed attempt at it, provoked us into a response.
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It’s a four letter word, alright: W.O.R.K. In our occasional Do Us A Tape series, Damon Fairclough returns to run his rheumy eye over work-related songs, while simultaneously giving us an insight into the cheese counter at BHS, Glengarry Glen Ross and 1970s industrial relations. An original piece of writing for DJhistory.com.
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Damon Fairclough launches our new occasional series with a spiffing tale of crumbly sofas and industry in a Sheffield living room circa 1986.
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Every year our learned folks on the forum and a selection of our favourite DJ's and taste-makers from around the globe tell us what were their favourite tracks of the past twelve months. We crown a winner and then we post it up here so you can see everything that you missed in teh last year.
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The Shelter started as a Paradise Garage re-union party, soon the clubbers were calling themsleves the Shelter Family. Andy Thomas tells the story .
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Just two years after it began, people were asking if acid house was already dead. In i-D John Godfrey examined what might come after.
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Busloads of baggy Mancunian urchins made The Stone Roses Spike Island concert the stuff of indie dance legend.
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From DaDa to Detroit, Jon Savage details the history of techno in The Village Voice.
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The very first article on acid house, penned by Paul Oakenfold, taken from Boy's Own fanzine.
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From After Dark magazine, Vince Aletti gives us a snapshot of New York's DJs as disco sweeps the city.
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Tim Lawrence details how Chicago's "acid" records took dance music into the future
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