A week on Friday (20th January), The Cube in Bristol will host a screening of Northern Disco Lights, Ben Davis and Pete Jenkinson’s documentary charting the “rise and rise of Norwegian dance music”. Afterwards, just down the road at The Crofters Rights, one of the founders of the Norwegian scene, Mental Overdrive, will play his […]
Happy New Year! As 2017 begins in earnest, I naturally found myself looking back over 2016. From a work perspective, it was a busy 12 months.I was fortunate enough to work on some very interesting projects, resulting in some articles I’m particularly proud of. In a bid to keep track of this – and […]
With the passing of David Mancuso, DJ culture has not only lost one of its’ founding fathers, but also a man who understood, arguably better than anyone else, the importance of sound and environment in creating the perfect party. Most will know the basic story. From the early 1970s onwards, Mancuso threw parties in a […]
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Paper Recordings. I first became aware of the Manchester label a little later than most, sometime around the turn of the millennium. By the time I started investigating the catalogue properly, I was working at IDJ magazine. I ended up writing about the label a […]
While going through some old magazines the other day, I decided it might be a good idea to start archiving some of my old pieces for posterity. So, earlier today, I picked out an issue of IDJ at random and flicked through to see what I could find. It didn’t take long to find something […]
Earlier this year, I approached Red Bull Music Academy Daily with the idea of writing a feature focused on Roland’s SH-101 mono-synth. They loved the idea, and decided to use it as an excuse to launch a new series of articles on iconic and important pieces of musical hardware. They decided that they wanted to […]
Earlier today, Red Bull Music Academy Daily posted an in-depth article I wrote last autumn, accompanied by a mix I put together in celebration. Both were labours of love, and saw me re-visit a style of music that genuinely changed my life back in the early 1990s: Ambient House. Recently, I’ve mentioned the article – […]
I’ve always been a little obsessed with the short-lived musical revolution that was “bleep and bass”. It’s for this reason that I was delighted to be given the chance to write about it for Resident Advisor, a project that took over my life for several months.
After a fairly hit-and-miss summer, I’ve recently been throwing myself into writing a number of these kind of in-depth reviews for Juno Plus. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve cast my eye over releases from Tornado Wallace, Richard Sen, Herva and Mind Fair
After a relatively quiet summer – at least by recent standards – I’m back into the swing of things, with a bulging list of commissions. Top of the list is a new series of books for reluctant teenager readers on the history of music called Pop Histories.
Matt Anniss 