Mixmag

Mixmag, launched in 1982, is a British monthly electronic dance and clubbing magazine which covers dance events, and reviews music and club nights.
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Interview by John McCready, Mixmag, July 1991
The look, the voice, the haircut is back. However it seems the lady who was born plain Pat Daniels is is revealing a more sensitive ...
Larry Levan: The Great Phoney Garage Revival
Comment by John McCready, Mixmag, November 1991
John McCready gets shirty about all this Garage hype. ...
Leftfield: Bobbing to the top of The Next Big Thing List
Interview by Andy Crysell, Mixmag, January 1992
IT'S NOT often that a band with no definite plans for their next release, without even so much as a recording contract, land a page ...
Report by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, March 1992
Back in October Mixmag covered the exploding LA Rave scene. Since then New York itself, city of metal, noise and chaos, has gone techno mental. ...
Tony Humphries: Turntable Legends Part 2: Tony Humphries
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, April 1992
THE BIG man has cricked his back. He's drugged out on 'Bufferin', 'Excedrin', 'Anacin', and major doses of 'Extra Strength Tylenol' after waking up in ...
Todd Terry: Ay Bop A Dobey: Todd Terry
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1992
"I'M FLYING down to Florida tomorrow, but I don't like hot weather so I guess it's gonna be terrible — I don't exactly need a ...
Overview by David Toop, Mixmag, June 1992
WHEN PHUTURE'S 'Acid Tracks' hit the decks in 1987, the title of this minimalist techno-homage to the Roland TR-303 blinded most of us to the ...
Carleen Anderson, Brand New Heavies, DaYeene, M People, Joey Negro, Young Disciples: Girls on Song
Report and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Mixmag, June 1992
"IT'S JUST tinkly pianos and wailing slags," was how 808 State once summed up the contribution of female vocalists to house music. If it wasn't ...
Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, September 1992
'Flowers' — Titiyo"I think she's Swedish [she is], but I really know nothing about this, so I don't know what to tell you. I was ...
Junior Vasquez: Out in New York
Report by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, September 1992
Despite a million AIDS warnings, New York clubbers are going wild. Clubs like the Roxy and the Sound Factory are packed with acres of exposed ...
John Cage, Brian Eno, Keith LeBlanc, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ultramarine: Ambient: The Chill-Out Zone
Essay by David Toop, Mixmag, October 1992
Ambient music: not just a soundtrack for the chill-out room, more a sound of the future. David Toop gets deep. Very deep. ...
Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, October 1992
What's Goin' On — Marvin Gaye ...
Report and Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, December 1992
BACK IN THE summer Carl Cox was asked to perform on the Radio 1 Road Show. Ever keen to please, Carl naturally obliged, he did ...
Obituary by David Toop, Mixmag, January 1993
The legendary Paradise Garage DJ passed away in November. David Toop pays tribute. ...
Tony Humphries: Goodbye New York, hello London
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, February 1993
Tony Humphries moves to London ...
Profile and Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993
ALLAH — NUMBER one deity in the world of Islam. Almighty soul controller, master and one God. Inspiration and divine power behind the words of ...
D:Ream, Lisa B, Serious Rope: Lisa B, D:Ream, Serious Rope: Fun
Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, May 1993
IT'S ABOUT a change of heart and a swift move up in emphasis. It's about Songs, Glamour and Style in capital letters. ...
David Bowie, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, The Rolling Stones, Run DMC: Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993
MANAGER ADOFO Muhammad is talking up his brother and CL Smooth's success. "The unique sound is all incorporated in Pete Rock's flow — his art. ...
Brand New Heavies, The Pharcyde: Pharcyde
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993
LAYERS OF sophisticated jazz are slinking their way through your speakers. Smokey strains of Blue Note beats collide with the mastery of John Coltrane, Donald ...
Guru, Run DMC: Run DMC: Down With The Kings
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993
It ain't a respect thing (even if it should be). It's the real thing. The kings are back. The gold, the fresh trainers and the ...
Juan Atkins: Juan Is The Teacher
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, Mixmag, August 1993
COULD IT be 'Magic'? Yes that was Juan Atkins, the "Magic One" and legendary Godfather Of Techno leaning against a pillar at the Drum Club ...
Joey Negro: Universe Of Love (Z/Virgin)
Review by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, October 1993
A FEW years ago, any talk of British garage would've been met with nothing more than a few hearty sniggers and the number of the ...
M People, The Tyrrel Corporation: M People, Evolution, Tyrrel Corporation: The Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, Mixmag, December 1993
UNLESS YOU'VE spent the last six months in an Iraqi jail, you'll have noticed M People. Mike Pickering's house-music-goes-pop combo has grown from a personal ...
Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, December 1993
They're back and Bill Brewster wants to know if they go shopping dressed like that. "Lets put the cards on the table," says The Cowboy, ...
Barbara Tucker: Work It, Girlfriend
Report and Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, December 1994
A clubland fixture, both on record and on the dancefloor, Miss Tucker proves that if you want to make it in New York you better ...
A Guy Called Gerald: Return of the Gerald
Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, February 1995
With 'Voodoo Ray' A Guy Called Gerald defined British acid house. With '28-Gun Bad Boy' he lit the fuse that became jungle. With his new ...
Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, April 1995
You may have heard that deep trance track with the manic laughing. That's Josh Wink, the coolest, wildest, funkiest trance doctor in America. When Josh ...
Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do (Warp)
Review by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, May 1995
OVER THE past year or two, Richard James has built up an antagonistic persona, composing tracks built of harsh ear-splitting noises. And yes, you'll find ...
Blake Baxter, Joey Beltram, System 01: Techno in Berlin: Down In The Bunker
Report and Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, May 1995
Berlin: Eastern techno axis, where hardened Detroit innovation collides with glam club babes in a former department store bunker. Tresor is the club and the ...
Montell Jordan: This is how HE does it
Report and Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, July 1995
Montell Jordan, six foot eight of elegant, chart topping, soul-swinging, street talking star, is holding forth on a basketball court in Southern California. Telling jokes ...
Report by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, July 1995
Jellies used to be heavy shit, for addicts and desperados. Then serious clubland hedonists started taking them to come down. Now, in the search for ...
Report by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, August 1995
One year ago we coined the term 'trip hop' for a new, instrumental school of stoned hip hop rhythms and psychedelic wizardry. Since then, the ...
LTJ Bukem: "Don't Miss Out on a Good Thing"
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, September 1995
That's what everyone's saying about LTJ Bukem — the man whose pioneering, melodic take on breakbeats has catapulted him into the drum n' bass super ...
Report by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, December 1995
Trainspotting, eh? We all do it, to one extent or another. But there are people who go that little bit further. People who take it to extremes. Who let collecting, buying ...
4 Hero: The Sound of Unimaginable Dreams
Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, March 1996
Dego and Mark are 4 Hero. And Jason's Optical Stairway. And Tom & Jerry. And the brains behind Reinforced Records. They gave Goldie a break ...
Why does everyone ignore "Jump Up" jungle?
Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, January 1997
Even Goldie has been dissing "jump up". But wasn't it the ragga stuff that put jungle back in the frame in the first place? ...
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Mixmag, October 1997
Arriving in the UK, via the QEII, after a six year break, rap legend KRS-One certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. If appearing on ...
Spring Heel Jack: Why Does Everybody Hate Spring Heel Jack?
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Mixmag, October 1997
Is it because they produced for Everything But The Girl? Toured with ambient rockers Spiritualized rather than Goldie? Or because they're seen as the epitome ...
Essay by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Mixmag, 2002
NOTE: This is the extended "directors' cut" version of the piece originally published in Mixmag. * ...
Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, 2006
IS IT STILL financially viable to employ a butler to carry one's record valise? Why can't you get wooden slipmats any more? Is 45rpm a ...
Guide by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, 2006
Okay, so it's not really the 40 most collectable records (if it was, it would contain nothing but doo-wop, northern soul and classical music). It's ...
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