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COUNTRYMUSIC - NATHAN FAKE

Border Community music has always been very organic, kind of back to nature. It‘s music that unveils a world in your imagination, which we would not normally see. Nathan Fake wins us over with his debut album and proves that true techno and pure electronica are very close to one another. They c...

A NEW FRENCH WAVE - JACKSON AND HIS COMPUTER BAND

Like many a Frenchman, Jackson Fourgeaud knows how to make an entrance. His debut ‘Smash‘ crash-landed at the end of last year, and the ripples are still being felt. It is one of the most daring, crazy, innovative and totally fresh records to be made in recent years. Like many artists, he has b...

STARS IN THEIR EYES - ROSS ALLEN RECOMMENDS VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS

ROSS ALLEN IS NOT ONLY A PROLIFIC DJ, HE ALSO A&RS FOR CASUAL RECORDS, ISLAND AND NINJA TUNE – AND HE IS ABOUT TO SET UP HIS OWN MANAGEMENT COMPANY. HIS NIGHT “DESTINATION OUT” IS HELD AT CARGO, LONDON, MONTHLY. “Various Productions are two guys from Hornsy in north London. They’ve...

STARS IN THEIR EYES - ROB DA BANK RECOMMENDS KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS

ROB DA BANK IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD. AS WELL AS BEING A REGULAR FIXTURE ON RADIO 1, HE STILL MANAGES TO CURATE HIS BESTIVAL FESTIVAL AND RUN SUNDAY BEST RECORDS. “The most exciting music I’ve got on my turntable now isn’t my usual diet of underground techno, experimental indie or perh...

STARS IN THEIR EYES - MYLO RECOMMENDS JUSTICE

MYLES MACINNES, AKA MYLO, HAS BEEN HAILED AS “THE SAVIOUR OF DANCE MUSIC”. HE HAS RECENTLY BEEN TOURING ACROSS THE UK, HEADING OFF TO THE SUNNIER CLIMES OF AUSTRALIA IN JANUARY 2006. “Justice from Paris are great. They came to my attention when they did a remix of Simian’s ‘Never Be A...

STARS IN THEIR EYES - MIRA AROYO FROM LADYTRON RECOMMENDS POP LEVI AND THE EMERGENCIES

MIRA IS MEMBER OF ÜBER-COOL ELECTRONIC OUTFIT LADYTRON, WHO HAVE JUST RELEASED THEIR NEW AND THIRD ALBUM “WITCHING HOUR”. “John Levi is Pop Levi, who used to play bass for us. He remixed our track ‘Evil’. He’s now signed to Ninja Tune and is releasing a couple of singles and an album n...

STARS IN THEIR EYES - JOJO DE FREQ RECOMMENDS HOWDI

JOJO IS ONE OF MOST PROLIFIC FEMALE DJS IN THE GLOBAL ELECTRONIC SCENE. SHE IS LONG-TERM RESIDENT AT LONDON MIDWEEK NIGHT SPOT, NAG NAG NAG AND HAS GREAT HAIR. “I'd like to choose Howdi as my up-and-coming stars for next year. They have just released their new single 'Number One Song I...

STARS IN THEIR EYES - EROL ALKAN RECOMMENDS MATT IRWIN

AS WELL AS TROTTING AROUND THE GLOBE WITH A BOX OF RECORDS, EROL ALSO FINDS THE TIME TO REMIX THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS AND FRANZ FERDINAND. HIS WEEKLY, WILDLY POPULAR KNEES-UP “TRASH” IS EVERY MONDAY AT THE END IN LONDON. “Matt had been coming to my night Trash at the End for four years....

STARS IN THEIR EYES

IN TRUE END-OF-YEAR STYLE, ELECTRONIC BEATS WISHES TO SPOTLIGHT THE UP-AND-COMING TALENT FOR NEXT YEAR. BUT INSTEAD OF US SCRATCHING OUR CHINS AND COMING UP WITH A WHO’S WHO LIST OF EXPLOSIVE NEW TALENT, WE THOUGHT WE’D ASK SOME OF THE MUSIC WORLD'S CURRENT PIONEERS. SO MOVE OVER KAISER CHIEFS...

SUPER STARRY DJ - TIGA

“ME AND SOULWAX HAVE SPENT A FUCKING UNREAL AMOUNT OF TIME TOGETHER. IT’S LIKE SUMMER CAMP, AND CONSIDERING THAT WE’RE ALL THIRTY OR MORE, IT’S PRETTY FUCKING AMAZING." “I’d like to run away and be a carpenter. It just seems…whatever happened to just doing it and not talking about...

AUTOMATIC AUTOMATOR - DAN THE AUTOMATOR

AS PRODUCERS GO, DAN THE AUTOMATOR IS THE PINBALL WIZARD OF HIS TIME. FROM ROCK TO POP TO UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP AND WHITE-KNUCKLE BLOCKBUSTER FILM SCORES, HIS OUTPUT IS BOTH HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AND PROLIFIC. HE IS BEST KNOWN IN THE UK AS DAMON ALBARN’S CHIEF COLLABORATOR IN THE GORILLAZ DURING THE F...

SEIZE THEIR MOMENT - HARD-FI

THE CURRENT PLANETARY ALIGNMENT LOOKS MAGNIFICENT FOR HARD-FI AND THE BAND’S FRONTMAN RICHARD ARCHER – ALMOST AS GOOD AS HIS PIN-UP BONE STRUCTURE. FOUR YEARS AGO HE STARED DEFEAT IN THE EYES WHEN HIS BAND CONTEMPO DEBUTED TO WIDESPREAD DISINTEREST. FOUR YEARS LATER, AND AFTER A PLATINUM-SELLIN...

ELECTRONIC BEATS IN AMSTERDAM - EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE

“ARE YOU ALL FUCKING ALRIGHT? MAKE SOME FUCKING NOIIIIIIIIISE THEN!!!!” SUCH WERE KEITH FROM THE PRODIGY’S FIRST WORDS TO THE 6000-STRONG CROWD OF BANG-UP-FOR-IT HEDONISTS WHO WERE IN THE HEINEKEN MUSIC HALL IN AMSTERDAM FOR THE LAST OF THE “ELECTRONIC BEATS” FESTIVALS IN 2005. Next Le...

DOUBLETROUBLE - HANS PETER LINDSTROM AND PRINS THOMAS

HANS PETER LINDSTROM AND THOMAS M. HERMANSEN (AKA PRINS THOMAS) ARE TWO YOUNG NORWEGIAN GUYS WHO ARE POSSIBLY THE MOST IN-DEMAND LEFTFIELD ELECTRONIC REMIXERS AND PRODUCERS AROUND, CREATING BETWEEN THEM A PRODIGIOUS AMOUNT OF MUSICAL MADNESS. THEY BOTH WORK ON INDIVIDUAL TRACKS AND EPS, REMIX T...

Madonna - SHE´S BACK

MADONNA, FIRST LADY OF POP, RETURNS WITH A NEW LOOK AND DANCE ALBUM THAT IS GIVING NEW MEANING TO THE WORDS STAYING POWER. This September, I was ushered into an expensive hotel suite on the 5th floor of an expensive hotel in central London. The occasion: an exclusive playback of the...