Contrary to popular belief that the discotheque and dance revolution didn’t begin until the mid-’70s, the whole two-turntables-and-a-mixer thing started happening a half-decade earlier. Demand was such that […]
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Listen to hundreds of hours of mixes (with tracklists) from “The Guv’nor” Andrew Weatherall. File under: Internet is Beautiful, DRVR is a new creation from The Flightpath Estate, “an […]
Featuring The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads, Cool Herc, John Cale, Afrika Bambaata, Fab 5, and more. “If it doesn’t work in New York, we’re in […]
Want to get inspired about dance music? About the exuberant, profound joy of dancing itself? About the importance of physical spaces for stretching out and-or letting loose? And […]
Recently one of the great mix CDs of the so-called electronica age, Kruder & Dorfmeister’s The K&D Sessions from 1998, finally landed on streaming services a quarter-century after […]
A 1986 story by Barry Walters shined a spotlight on a new dance-floor sound. In 1986, the great music writer Barry Walters, who made his name covering underground […]
Dive into the origins of Weatherall’s personal mantra “Fail We May, Sail We Must.” Yesterday, February 17th marked the second anniversary of the passing of Andrew Weatherall aka […]
Whether pitched up, down or at the wrong rpm entirely, sometimes the wrong speed on a turntable can completely transform a song — for the better. You’re well […]
