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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
Café Del Mar (Volume 1) – Released 6th June, 1994, React Records Café Del Mar Volume 1 is the first release from the popular Café Del Mar compilation series, originally released on React Records and compiled by Jose Padilla. Spanish-born Jose Padilla, who passed in 2020, was previously the resident DJ at the now world-famous … Read more
Not a lot of people know this, but I learned to mix with Carl Cox. FACT! It was the summer of 1995 and I’d just gotten my first ever set of decks – two flappy, plastic-fantastic Kam beltdrive turntables and a matching GM25 “Made2Fade” 2 channel mixer. It was an unlikely combination, in retrospect. Carl … Read more