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The term “trip hop” turns 30 this month – but what does it mean exactly? 30 years ago Mixmag writer Andy Pemberton wrote an article on the growing phenomenon of hiphop-influenced dance music mushrooming up from the global underground. The original criteria of this new sound or style was that it was slow and (mostly) … Read more
It’s funny, I’ve read three articles just in this past week about how the death of music writing is inevitable. Now I’m starting to worry this article might be the final nail in its coffin. This might well be the weirdest thing I’ve published here but fukkit, going to put it live anyway. See, I … Read more
Aphex Twin’s set at London’s Field Day festival was a audiovisual assault on the senses full of boombastic breakbeats, raw junglist snares and intense pummeling high-speed gabber, the visuals were equally intense and the crowd, an enormous rogues gallery of nutters, were definitely up for it. Update: Adding the official event video here: On my … Read more
Carl Cox at the Pyramids, Giza, Egypt – May 2023 We all have people in our lives who only contact us to alter our plans. “Hey Carl, long time no speak, what’s up?” “OH YES! OH YES!”, bellowed the voice down the phone, “I just got a gig at the Pyramids!” The penny dropped, this … Read more
The death of Andrew Weatherall was the first of many massive kicks in the balls we found ourselves on the receiving end of in 2020. Difficult to even begin to express what he meant to the world, other than to say he was one of the all-time greats, hugely influential, highly inspirational and sorely missed. … Read more