Interviews
Here's where DJ legends spill the beans on their life, loves and record collections. These are the characters who've mattered most to the craft of DJing, and the new guns pushing things forward. Put the kettle on and settle down to some tall tales of music and dancing.
The Furtive 50 is back, the votes have been cast, counted and announced and now we meet the main men behind the tracks that made more bums wiggle than the rest of this year's sonic solutions. All hail the kings of the DJhistory castle.
Todd Terje
The man has been on fire this year, with two tracks in the top five and already a contender for track of 2012 Terje Olsen is the man who can. whether it’s supreme edits or the smash, bang, whallop of each original release. Keep an eye on this boy, as we get the feeling you haven't seen anything yet. A chance of overkill? Nor-way!
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Ralph Lawson
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Morgan Geist is a modern day house and disco legend. He grew up in suburban New Jersey but his music is clearly incfluenced by the purest sounds of Chicago but mostly New York and Detroit. As part of Metro Area he is responsible for a ton of amazing disco and house inspired dance music. He also owns Environ records and was the man behind our number one record of last year, Storm Queen's Look Right Through.
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Adrian Sherwood is a one-man UK reggae almanac. He began DJing and throwing parties while still at school and was selling reggae records to shops before he left school. He'd made his first album when he was still a teenager before going on to founding the influential On-U-Sound label.
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Dave Godin, who sadly passed away in 2004, was the writer who coined the phrase ‘northern soul’. Dave spent a lifetime championing the cause of African-American music in the UK and was instrumental in helping Berry Gordy gain a foothold in British market. He continued to write about soul for the rest of his life. Latterly, he was responsible for the brilliant Deep Soul Treasures compilations on Kent.
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Eddie Richards has been consistently one of the finest house DJs the UK has produced. He founded one of the – if not the – first DJ agencies in the world and still has the thirst for underground dance music even today.
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She was the queen of them all. For a time Loleatta Holloway ruled supreme over even Chaka, Aretha and Diana. She was the Queen of Disco and voiced the troubles and triumphs of gay men better than anyone.
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Dave Lee has had more pseudonyms than Howard Marks, including his mainstay alter ego Joey Negro, alongside Doug Willis, Sessomatto, Z Factor, Akabu and his live project, the Sunburst Band. Since he began his career in the late 1980s, he has been flavour of the month, remixer du jour, hitmaker and, lately, grande dame of disco.
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Voodoo Ray was the biggest independent selling record of 1988. Climbing as high as number twelve in the charts, being awarded a gold disc and becoming a certified house music anthem. During this time Gerald Simpson was living in a squat and doing interviews from a pay phone.
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Ewan Pearson is a Cambridge graduate that makes techno, has turned down remixes for Shakira and denies he is the world’s best educated DJ despite having a Masters. He is most proud of making people happy.
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Here they are, our mini interviews with those responsible for this year's three biggest bangers! If you ever wanted to know about Morgan Geist hanging out with a Queen, which hip hop track Space Dimension Controller wants to remix or whether TBD have ever played hide and seek with a celebrity you are in the right place.
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DJ, cultural critic and historian based at the University of California, Alice Echols is the author of Hot Stuff.
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DJ, Producer and Altern 8 inspiration, Chris Duckenfield has made some of the finest house tracks to come out of the UK.
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Richard Norris is one half of the Grid, one half of Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve and all of Time & Space Machine.
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If one man came to epitomise the sound of New York house in the late '80s and early '90s it was Todd Terry.
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Recently departed Gang Starr rapper Guru chats with hip hop legends Run DMC.
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One half of Was (Not Was), a man with several Detroit dance hits to his name, discusses Motown, Mojo and the motor city.
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Quentin Harris is a man of many worlds, whether it be hip hop, pop, deep house or a three course meal. Harris always delivers.
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Prins Thomas is a direct decendant of the Vikings, part of the Norwegian disco mafia and a hugely in-demand remixer, DJ and producer.
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Jane Bussmann lived acid house to the full then became an award winning comedy writer and author of Once In A Lifetime.
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Super-prolific producer on New York's downtown scene, who worked with everyone from Arthur Russell to Nile Rogers.
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