I found an interesting article on Vice’s website about Margaret Thatcher’s term in office in London and her relentless goal of pushing the acid house movement out of the UK.  Thatcher’s group of goons (AKA the police) around ’89 were striking down on acid house with an iron fist in an effort to drive the [...]

I wasn’t alive when Ian Curtis left this earth, but the mark he left on music will last forever.  Joy Division formed at a perfect time, when punk was all but over and this late 70′s renaissance was developing in the form of Factory Records.  To me, they are partly responsible for helping to shape [...]

If you’ve ever DJ’d before, you’ve almost no doubt done it at least once drunk (or in my case, all the time).  And fucking up while doing so is almost inevitable, but its fun right?  Difference is, most of us don’t get paid good sums of money to do it unlike Skream who made an [...]

A lot of good mixes and podcasts were put up on Soundcloud this week (and a few from the past that we just discovered), some from us, and some from others.  Let’s dive in on our recommendations for this week. Frankie Knuckles from the Boiler Room: The Godfather of House gives us a 60 minute [...]

There is a great article in the New York Times Magazine this week about O.M.D. and the important role they played in bringing synthpop and new wave to the masses in the late 70′s and early 80′s.  When Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys first started out, they were teens playing in bars in Liverpool.  They were [...]

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.  I can’t even go to the bathroom at a restaurant it seems without seeing a Random Access Memory sticker slapped up on a wall, forget having to see a billboard of it on every construction site wall in Manhattan.  So besides the Coachella teaser and [...]

For those of us who are fans of the Panorama Bar mix series, Juno had been good enough to alert us that the fifth installment mixed by Steffi has been released today.  The PBar series (and the Berghain) are some of the best mix CD’s you will find (if you can find them a la [...]

Let’s face it.  Most dubstep these days sucks.  I’m not here to rant and rave about brostep and all the other nonsense out there that festival DJ’s are playing these days nor do I want to start off this review on the wrong foot, but I want to put it out there from the get [...]

After us New Yorker’s got some good news last week in the form of Cassy getting the first residency at Output in Brooklyn, we get another thing to smile about from Cassy in the form of a mix CD.  Cassy will be piloting number 71 in the series for the London based night club and [...]

Today marks the five year anniversary of Mel Cheren’s death.  Mel was the co-founder of West End Records, which would go on to be one of the most prominent dance music labels of all time.  West End dominated the disco market along with Casablanca and Salsoul and was responsible for a lot of disco hits [...]