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John Cage, Brian Eno, Ultramarine, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith LeBlanc: Ambient: The Chill-Out Zone

Essay by David Toop, Mixmag, October 1992

Ambient music: not just a soundtrack for the chill-out room, more a sound of the future. David Toop gets deep. Very deep. ...

Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Steve Hillage, KLF, The, Moby, Orb, The, Psychic TV, Seefeel, Black Dog Productions, B12, Fortran 5, Heavenly Music Corporation, Psychick Warriors ov Gaia, Amorphous Androgynous , Polygon Window: Hey, DJ — The chilled-out charms of ambient techno

Guide by Pat Blashill, Details, November 1993

RICHARD JAMES has seen the future and it's nothing special. In fact, it's nothing at all. Nothingness itself. Vast, blank wildernesses, majesticaly vague cityscapes, machines ...

Hamilton Bohannon: Leicester

Live Review by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 13 September 1975

WHY IS it that audiences will dance all night to records, but stand round and drum their fingers to the real thing even when it ...

Joey Negro: Disco Lives: Joey Negro

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 7 April 1992

"So who is this disco fiend, Joey Negro, who has lent his remixing powers to the likes of Kenyatta and the Brand New Heavies? Is ...

Derrick May & Associates: Relics (Transmat/Buzz)

Review by Push, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992

MAY'S DAZE ...

Chic: These Are The Good Times

Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Mojo Collections, Fall 2001

THINK CHIC, think chic – a passport back to Studio 54, 70s hedonism; good times, guaranteed to bring gravity to the flapping flares and mirrorball-twirling ...

Ultra Naté: Insane in the Brain

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 28 September 1993

The music industry can send a woman over the edge. Ultra Naté may see her new album, One Woman's Insanity, as a 'do or die' ...

Blur, William Orbit: Blur: 13 (Virgin)

Review by James Hunter, New York Observer, 5 April 1999

Blur's Tender Mercies Shine Through Sheen of 13 ...

Hot Chip: One Life Stand (Parlophone)

Review by Simon Price, The Word, February 2010

THE NAME, of course, is one of pop's great double entendres. As well as carrying the sense of overloaded silicon circuitry, "Hot Chip" — like ...

UNKLE: Psyence Fiction (Mo Wax)

Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1998

New Adventures in Psy-Fi! ...

Deee-Lite: Deee-Day

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 14 August 1990

If your state of mind is really at Woodstock and your spirit is on the dancefloor, than wacky dance-a-delic trio Deee-Lite may be just what ...

Donna Summer: Hot Stuff

Interview by Robin Katz, Smash Hits, 14 June 1979

Robin Katz braves the heat to talk to the cool lady who's helped push disco to the forefront. ...

Bomb the Bass: Tim Machine

Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 February 1991

War broke out just as BOMB THE BASS released their first single for two years and the censors swooped. Now TIM SIMENON goes under his ...

Acid Crackdown: Sunrise III, Greenwich

Report by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 19 November 1988

2003 note: Sunrise III, which took place in November 1988 on an industrial wasteland that would later house the Dome, was a pivotal event in ...

Black Box: Daniele Davoli: This is the bloke who invented "Italian House"

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 29 November 1989

  THE WORLD of pop is a funny and unpredictable thing, isn't it? If someone had said last Christmas that the biggest pop craze in 1989 ...

Yazz: How to Make £25,000 a Night and End Up Skint

Report by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 3 May 1989

You call yourself Yazz, charge 3,000 people £8.50 each to come and see your concert and then give it all away to fat sweaty blokes ...

Derrick May (2004) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 30 August 2004

This is a transcript of Bill and Frank's audio interview with Derrick. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Disco Inferno

Report and Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, August 1998

Glitz and glamour, sex and celebs, drugs and death: Studio 54 was the ultimate New York nightlife hit. So is it any wonder they're trying ...

Where now for Manchester?

Report by John Robb, i-D, April 1993

Three years ago Manchester was famous for flares, clubs and the Happy Mondays. Now it's guns, drugs and violence. How accurate is the city's media ...

Vashti Bunyan, Prince, Aphex Twin, Barrabas, Underworld, Labi Siffre, R. Dean Taylor, Terry Callier: The 40 Most Collectible Records

Guide by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, 2006

Okay, so it's not really the 40 most collectable records (if it was, it would contain nothing but doo-wop, northern soul and classical music). It's ...