acid house
LFO's Mark Bell, Electronic Music Pioneer and Crucial Warp Signee, Dies at 43
How a former teenage breakdancer became one of the greatest innovators of early UK electronic music.
Rave Legend Mark Archer On Why Frankie Knuckles Reduces Him To Tears
The Altern-8 rave legend talks us through the house track closest to his heart.
'Two Hundred', the New EP from Perc & Truss, is a Modern Techno Monster
"I guess 'Two Hundred' is the first protest song about getting on the London property ladder in dance music history."
The UK's Forgotten Rap Scene Deserves Your Attention
A "Britcore" enthusiast told me how the genre helped to shape the future of British dance music.
The Story of Boy's Own: The Acid House Gang Who Changed British Clubbing
Terry Farley talks about running the seminal fanzine, club night and record label.
I Bought the Brixton Academy for £1
How Simon Parkes prospered despite rave paranoia, Yardie beatings and Kurt Cobain's suicide.
A Hundred Thousand Joints Later, Tyree Cooper and Vin Sol Made an EP
And Matrixxman too! It's a match made in deep house heaven.
World Unknown: South African Acid House
"It was 1990. Mandela just came out. It was in that first wave of mixed clubs. For us, we were used to dancing alongside black people, but it was still strange to dance alongside whites.”
Nightmares On Wax Comes Full Circle
On EDM capitalism, recording with a 52-piece orchestra, and the fact that house music is "fun again."
Thatcher's War on Acid House
There was a time when plugging in a record player in an abandoned building brought a police response more appropriate to the assembly of a nuclear device. Whatever rattled the establishment about rave culture, in their own warped way they had a point...