Emma Warren
Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture for decades. She is the author of Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre, Steam Down: Or How Things Begin, Document Your Culture and Dance Your Way Home: A Journey through the Dancefloor. Emma was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked on staff at The Face, and spent six years as an editorial mentor at Brixton youth-run Live Mag. She has a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM and runs her own Sweet Machine publishing. Her work has appeared in: The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Fader, Select, Mixmag, Dazed & Confused, Muzik, DJ Magazine, Downbeat and others.
(photo © Theo Ndlovu)
23 articles
List of articles in the library
Justin Timberlake: Justin Robertson: Totally wired
Interview by Emma Warren, The Face, February 1996
ONCE, WHEN Justin Robertson was playing at Back To Basics, someone came up to the DJ booth. "Justin? Just in? You're not Just In, you're ...
LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad: LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad in... Mission Possible
Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1996
LTJ Bukem, the man behind the 50,000 selling Logical Progression album, the excellent Good Looking and Looking Good labels and drum 'n' bass classics 'Music', ...
808 State, Mr. Scruff, Rae & Christian: Mad Mancs
Report by Emma Warren, The Face, October 1996
"THERE HASN'T BEEN an atmosphere like this here since 1988," claims a kid on the Haçienda dancefloor. And he's got a point. Manchester has gone ...
Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1996
More than any other British city Bristol has always had an identifiable musical sound. From Smith and Mighty, Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead, to current ...
Interview by Emma Warren, The Face, February 1997
ANYONE WHO'S ever found themselves propelled on to the middle of the dancefloor as soon as the twisted "wah wah" strains of 'Da Funk' hit ...
Sneaker Pimps: It's Great in the States... Yeah?
Report and Interview by Emma Warren, The Face, June 1997
The Chemical Brothers enter the Billboard album chart at Number 14. The Prodigy and Orbital play Lollapalooza. In LA kids breakdance to jungle. In Miami ...
Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1997
TOKYO B-BOY DJ Krush, purveyor of the original spooked instrumental head nodder, is back. Alongside Shadow, and Mo' Wax's beat symphonies, Krush and co helped ...
A Guy Called Gerald: Have You Ever Ridden a Horse? A Guy Called Gerald
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1997
IS SPEED GARAGE SELFISH? IS EVERYONE A NUMBER? DOES DERRICK MAY LOOK LIKE EDDY MURPHY? GERALD SIMPSON THINKS SO AND HE'S SEEN BIGGIE AND TUPAC ...
Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1997
PARIS' PREMIER sound sculptors have long advocated the beauty of sound over dancefloor considerations, and with Moon Safari they've nailed their flag to a vocodered ...
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1997
AIR ARE THE MOST SOPHISTICATED DUO TO EMERGE FROM THE PARISIAN SCENE. EMMA WARREN FINDS THEY HAVE MORE IN COMMON WITH DEBUSSY THAN DAFT PUNK ...
Ed Rush & Optical: Ed Rush and Optical: Jungle Fever
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, February 1998
ED RUSH AND OPTICAL HAVE JOINED FORCES WITH VIRUS, THEIR NEW IMPRINT DEDICATED TO DIRTY DRUM 'N' BASS. EMMA WARREN GETS INFECTED. ...
Matthew Herbert: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Radioboy
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, February 1998
MATTHEW HERBERT HAS KILLED OFF HIS EGG WHISK PLAYING WISHMOUNTAIN GUISE TO CREATE THE SUIT PEELING RADIOBOY! EMMA WARREN TUNES IN. ...
Jeff Mills: Doing it on Purpose
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, June 1998
JEFF MILLS, LAUNCHES HIS PURPOSE MAKER ALBUM, ABOUT LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WITH A PHOTO EXHIBITION OF HIS FAMOUS "FAST" HANDS AND LESS FAMOUS ...
Ed Rush & Optical, Grooverider: Grooverider: New Funk Theory
Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1998
DRUM 'N' BASS' MOST POPULAR DJ IS JUST ABOUT TO RELEASE HIS DEBUT LONG PLAYER. EMMA WARREN TALKS DOUBLE JAZZ INFLUENCED CONCEPT ALBUMS WITH THE ...
UNKLE: Psyence Fiction (Mo Wax)
Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1998
New Adventures in Psy-Fi! ...
UNKLE: HMV, Oxford Street, London
Live Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1998
Back to the Futura! UNKLE may not have mastered playing live yet, but they can still put on a show with a little help from ...
Basement Jaxx: The House that Jaxx Built
Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, April 1999
HAVING JUST COMPLETED THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR SO FAR, BASEMENT JAXX ARE ABOUT TO KICK HOUSE MUSIC INTO THE NEXT CENTURY: NOT BEFORE SHOWING ...
Layo & Bushwacka!: Lowlife's Come...
Profile and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1999
LAYO & BUSHWACKA HAVE MADE AN ALBUM AS TASTY AS FOOD AT THE END'S AKA RESTAURANT. EMMA WARREN CHOWS DOWN WITH THEM ON SOME SUBTERRAIN ...
Review by Emma Warren, Observer Music Monthly, September 2003
Golden Prospector ...
OutKast: Speakerboxx/The Love Below (Arista)
Review by Emma Warren, Observer Music Monthly, September 2003
Atlantan titans continue their novel ascent ...
Review by Emma Warren, Observer Music Monthly, October 2003
Up on their uppers: Art-school project? Situationist prank? Fashion statement? Emma Warren celebrates the star-studded, ultra-hip and über-exuberant electropunk of Berlin's all-girl wonders. ...
Arthur Russell: The World Of Arthur Russell
Review by Emma Warren, Observer Music Monthly, November 2003
Ace NYC cellist sampled by Grandmaster Flash and others ...
Wiley: Sub-zero beats from Dizzee Rascal's chilly mentor
Interview by Emma Warren, Q, May 2004
WILEY IS IN A FOUL mood. ...
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