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MSTRKRFT

MSTRKRFT (pronounced masterkraft) are two Canadian, pizza-munching, moustache-twirling disco-rockers that are about to explode their talent juice all over the world. This summer they’re releasing their debut album, The Looks, so expect their Daft Punk-esque pounding tunes sliced with some of th...

GREG WILSON - Bring the Funk

A lot has been told about the Hacienda of ‘Madchester’ in its thrills and pills guise – but what of those crucial early years? As a new album reveals, the Hacienda played a crucial role in bringing the black music of New York’s club scene into the British rave scene – specifically the man to us...

Matthew Herbert - Brave New World

For some people, somebody having a different approach can be just too much to bear. When Matthew Herbert toured jazz festivals with his Big Band Project it’s possible he made more enemies than friends. Certainly that was not the first and only uproar the English musician has caused in his music...

Hot Chip

Hot Chip have just made one of the most anticipated electronic albums of the year. They acquired a cult following of geeks after their debut Coming On Strong that filled a void in the musical landscape. Fresh from cracking America, we had some fun with them via e-mail messenger. You ha...

DJ Hell - Grand Master Gigolo

DJ Hell is quite probably Germany’s most famous and successful DJ and producer. With his impressive musical back catalogue and world-renowned Gigolo record label, he is reaching new heights of can’t-touch-this super starry status. Hobnobbing with P Diddy, Grace Jones and Bryan Ferry is becoming...

Au Revoir Simone

Au Revoir Simone are E Erika, A Annie and H Heather; three beautiful musicians from Brooklyn, New York that are in the business of making haunting electronic indie music and probably breaking a few hearts along the way. Looking like they’ve just walked off the set of The Virgin Suicides, they h...

THE INVISIBLES

Ever since the rise and fall of the vastly overrated “Superstar DJs” clubland has been busy redefining itself. Today’s ultra-modern clubber wants more than just a line-up featuring a smattering of big names. It’s simply not enough to watch an aging Fatboy strut his stuff, Jeff Mills go off on y...

JAMES PRIESTLEY

JAMES PRIESTLEY - The man who gave the Shoreditch scene a musical identity ++ AGE: 28 ++ LIVES: In the east end, of course, where else? ++ PROMOTES: James is a busy boy with many strings to his clubbing bow including top Sunday session Secretsundaze and minimal mash-up All Over My Face. ++ WE L...

GABRIEL MYDDLETON

GABRIEL MYDDLETON - The man who dared to take Caribbean music to the white middle classes! AGE: 25 ++ LIVES: A North London bwoy through-and-through, Gabe resides happily in Stokey. ++ PROMOTES: Popular dancehall and reggaeton sessions, Heatwave with his partner in musical crime, Masta G. Thei...

EROL ALKAN

EROL ALKAN - the man who was brave enough to make Monday night clubbing a reality and clev-er enough to make it work. ++ LIVES: In a bubble somewhere in London ++ PROMOTES: The glam-electrorock fest that is Trash ++ WE LOVE HIM FOR: Giving us all an excuse to carry the weekend on well into Tues...

ELECTRO ELVIS AND LULA

The ultimate clubbing couple ELECTRO ELVIS AND LULA ++ AGES: Electro Elvis is 28 and Lula is 29 ++ LIVE: Wang HQ ++ PROMOTE: The legendary Wang parties - designed as an antidote to the soulless nights that dominated in the wake of the Criminal Justice Bill, they pitch themselves as the "ne...

BEN SMITH AND NICK MATTHEWS - AKA BEST KEPT SECRET

BEN SMITH AND NICK MATTHEWS AKA BEST KEPT SECRET, champions of the Nu-Jazz and Broken Beats scenes from London to South Africa. AGES: Both 28 ++ LIVE: North and West London respectively ++ PROMOTE: What is literally London's Best Kept Secret. Their influence on the sophisticated Broken Beats an...

CIRCLESQUARE - JEREMY SHAW

01 Everyone in the world should take LSD at least once. Seriously. I mean there are other drugs that would have more of an overall mind-blowing, earth-shattering effect and all, but as far as a kind of quick and relatively painless (yet not necessarily easy) glimpse into different way of lookin...

Patrick Wolf

Forget the shambolic Mr Doherty, the current precocious genius of the music world is a floppy-haired man who goes by the curious name of Mr Wolf. Unlike his nursery-rhyme namesake, this Mr Wolf may be big (he stretches to an impressive 6' 4") but he certainly isn't bad. Far from it, with a...

UNDER CONTROL - JAMES HOLDEN

The world has never been more beholden to Mr. Holden. This 26-year-old is already an esteemed DJ, a digital producer par excellence and is head of the new buzz label Border Community. With his new mix CD At The Controls exciting fans everywhere we thought there was no better time to speak with...