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It’s true that house music would still exist if Marshall Jefferson hadn’t been around to guide it — but it’s equally correct to say that without Jefferson...
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The Afro house sound is an ever-growing presence in UK dance music, with new labels, club-nights and a dedicated radio station springing up. Alongside a mix from Mr Silk, Ria Hylton explores the sound’s history, and speaks to some of the scene’s key players about forging strong connections with their growing audiences, and their aim to nurture a unique UK Afro house identity
The UK DJ world pays tribute to former Kiss FM stalwart
It was reported over the weekend that pioneering UK DJ Colin Faver has died.
Faver was a pioneering UK DJ who began his career in...
The dance scene owes much to gay culture...
Earlier this year, Lithuanian producer Ten Walls was riding on a wave of global love with his big-room smasher ‘Walking With Elephants’. Then, in...
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The infamous Manchester nightclub is considered by many as playing a crucial part in the rise of acid house
FAC51 The Haçienda has announced that an all-day virtual house party will take place on bank holiday weekend next month (Saturday 9th May).
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In the midst of the ruinous Thatcher era, Manchester’s Hulme Crescents estate became a haven for squatters, anarchists and acid house ravers, who converged in the hedonistic flat-turned-studio and after-hours club, The Kitchen. Kemi Alemoru speaks to former residents, DJs and familiar guests from the Madchester scene about the lasting impact this space had on the city’s cultural landscape
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Manchester's Happy Mondays drew influence from funk, house, and psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound. Here, Ben Cardew explores the lasting legacy of their 1990 album, ‘Pills ’N’ Thrills And Bellyaches’, which dropped in the midst of the Baggy takeover, and defined an era
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Andy Barker was the only ever-present member of 808 State, alongside Graham Massey, the group a crucial component of the UK rave scene since its early days...
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Flawless DJ, frequent hitmaker, dedicated mentor: Tony De Vit was a true hero of UK dance music. The most high-profile resident at hedonistic queer club Trade, he helped create the hard house sound, and was renowned not only for his impeccable mixing, but his compassion and care for others. Ahead of a new documentary, and with hard house at large once more, Stewart Who? reflects on his legacy with those he was close to, and those he influenced
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The story of rave and ecstasy in the UK has been explored in a new BBC Podcast.
The podcast, entitled Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave...
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The Manchester club no longer exists, but its cultural legacy lives on
The Hacienda has been voted one of the UK's top historic sites, despite the fact the warehouse that once housed the Manchester club no longer...
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Factory Records boss Tony Wilson apparently called it “the most important piece of journalism I’ve read in the last twenty years”...
An anthology of Freaky Dancing, the acid house fanzine that was distributed outside the Haçienda in 1989 and 1990, is to be published later this...
Exclusive mix from Todd Terry to celebrate 30 years of The Hacienda
Thirty years is a long time in dance music. In fact, it's just about all of it – the electronic kind, at least. Hence, why Manchester's Hacienda is held with such high esteem by anyone with a shred of interest in house and techno music.
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Seminal acid house outfit to tour material old and new
808 State have announced that they will be going on tour this year to mark their 30th anniversary.
The pioneering acid house group formed in...
Celebrating three decades of the UK's most notorious clubs
When it opened in 1982 the Hacienda in Manchester became a haven for the emerging acid house scene, and went on to inspire some of the city's greatest bands and artists.