Muzik
Muzik was a UK dance music magazine created by two former Melody Maker journalists, Push and Ben Turner, and published from June 1995 to August 2003
64 articles
List of articles in the library
Felix Da Housecat Presents Thee Madkatt Courtship: Alone In The Dark (Deep Distraxion)
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, June 1995
Pussy Power ...
Juan Atkins: Juan from the Heart
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, June 1995
Detroit's JUAN ATKINS is widely credited with having invented techno. Fourteen years later, he returns to claim his crown with the first ever Model 500 ...
The Chemical Brothers: Chemicrazy Pilots
Interview by Push, Muzik, June 1995
They've changed their name from The Dust Brothers to THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS and their beats are beefier than ever. Stand by for the imminent release ...
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, July 1995
Almost 10 years, after he sparked the acid revolution, Spanky is returning at the head of Phuture 303. But he's by no means the only ...
St Germain: Boulevard (F Communications)
Review by Push, Muzik, July 1995
GONE ARE THE days when everybody under 40 associated jazz with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band and little else besides. ...
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, August 1995
New York's Todd Terry is a giant of house music. He's also the subject of controversy and slander over his DJ sets and remix attitude. ...
Raekwon, RZA, Wu-Tang Clan: Wu-Tang Clan: Clan O'War
Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, September 1995
Staten Island's WU-TANG CLAN are the most notorious hip hop crew of the Nineties. And the biggest-selling. Here, RZA and Raekwon give a rare insight ...
KRS-One: KRS–1: 1 From The Heart
Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, November 1995
KRS-1 the grand daddy of hip hop takes to the soap box for a speech on record labels, street cred and 'The Goddess Theory'. Listen ...
Report by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, December 1995
Following the release of Mike Tyson and the acquittal of DJ Simpson the media circus is now focussing its attention on the spate of R&B ...
Leftfield: Kings of '95: Leftfield
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, January 1996
A nomination for the Mercury Prize. An appearance on Top Of The Pops. Music for the soundtrack to Shallow Grave. Oh, and a gold album. ...
Interview by Push, Muzik, 10 March 1996
With the release of their new album, Second Toughest In The Infants, UNDERWORLD take a hurtling ride through their world... With a little help from ...
Everything But The Girl: Walking Wounded (Virgin)
Review by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, June 1996
HOW ON earth did they get here? One minute Everything But The Girl are the icons of suburban depressives, idealistic students and all-round sad people, ...
Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, Joe Bataan, New Order, Rockers Revenge: Arthur Baker: Legend!
Interview by Kris Needs, Muzik, September 1996
In the beginning, there was ARTHUR BAKER. And without him, dance music wouldn't be what it is today. For starters, we wouldn't have had 'Planet ...
Interview by Push, Muzik, September 1996
PETE TONG. His Essential Selection show on Radio One is the nation's choice on a Friday night. It's a dry run for a night out, ...
Secret Knowledge: Hi Bunny, I'm Home!
Interview by Push, Muzik, September 1996
Kris Needs and Wonder. A boy from Aylesbury and a girl from Ohio. Music from the heart, some hard lessons from the street... and a ...
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing... (Mo'Wax)
Review by Push, Muzik, October 1996
STUTTERED BEATS, fluttered beats. Scratching harder and faster than the caretaker's cat at the local fleapit. Pianos which tease and prick, b-lines which cajole and ...
Jamiroquai: Travelling Without Moving (Soho Square)
Review by David Bennun, Muzik, October 1996
THE SEVENTIES was an age when people lived out their fantasies. Between the clubs of New York and the gay bathhouses of San Francisco, running ...
Nitin Sawhney : Nitin Sawhney: Displacing The Priest (Outcaste) ***
Review by David Bennun, Muzik, October 1996
SAWHNEY'S SECOND album is so omnivorously eclectic that it would be easy to mistake it for a new David Toop compilation. All the same, there ...
Coolio, Junior M.A.F.I.A., The Notorious B.I.G.: Notorious B.I.G.: B.I.G. Trouble
Report by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, October 1996
When the US hip hop elite hits the road, you expect sparks, right? When you put together names from the East and West Coast on ...
Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, November 1996
Chopper fanatic, sound system supremo, founder member of Kiss FM, former Talkin' Loud A&R guru, all-round celebrity and man of the people... What more do ...
Obituary by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, November 1996
At the age of 25, TUPAC SHAKUR was gunned down and died six days later in a Las Vegas hospital. His death was inevitable, but ...
Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan: Ghostface Killer: The Grim Rapper
Profile and Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, December 1996
GHOSTFACE KILLER'S debut long-player, Ironman, is yet another exceptional release from Staten Island's favourite sons. But this outing is a little different. Bringing lightness to ...
Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, December 1996
The death of Tupac has left the hip hop bad boy vacancy wide open. MOBB DEEP'S Havoc and Prodigy have already more than filled his ...
Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, December 1996
Lyrics with depth and a smooth-sung flow? Hip hop with real instrumentation? Attitude? Humour? Great songs? You need OUTKAST. ...
Puff Daddy: Sean 'Puffy' Combs: Multi-Million Dollar Man
Profile and Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, January 1997
At 26, SEAN 'PUFFY' COMBS is reputed to be worth some $170 million. But that's not all the East Coast hip hop mogul has a ...
Report and Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, January 1997
From healthy US hip hop act to global superstars in under twelve months, you could say 1996 has been a remarkable year for the FUGEES. ...
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, February 1997
PHIL SPECTOR would have been proud. If there's one trick the French pair can pull off with constant aplomb (and they do it repeatedly across ...
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, February 1997
DAFT PUNK. They're not daft They're not punks. Just two young French funkateers putting France on the house map with one of the most hyped ...
Masters at Work, Nuyorican Soul: Masters At Work: Shock of the Nu
Interview by Kris Needs, Muzik, March 1997
You know MASTERS AT WORK, you're familiar with the studio prowess of Mr Gonzalez and Mr Vega, you appreciate their high quality, chart-busting, dancefloor output, ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, April 1997
SPOOKY. VERY spooky. It's 11 am in deepest Clapham and in a cafe full of wheezing old men and cackling women, Richard Fearless, the sharp-dressing ...
Cypress Hill, DJ Muggs: DJ Muggs: Mugg Shot
Profile and Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, April 1997
One third of the multi-million-selling Cypress Hill, DJ MUGGS has earmarked 1997 as his year. Taking a step back from the Hill, his first foray ...
Interview by Push, Muzik, May 1997
DON'T MENTION the war. Unless you are in Rotterdam. Because if you are in Rotterdam, you really should know that on 14 May 1940, a ...
Tori Amos, Armand Van Helden: Armand Van Helden: Widow shopping
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, June 1997
"It's gotta be big" sang Tori Amos. And lo, it was! ARMAND VAN HELDEN's remix of the petite songstress put him right up there in ...
Luscious Jackson: Divan Du Monde, Paris
Live Review by Push, Muzik, June 1997
GUITARS ARE crap. It's a simple and obvious fact of modern life. Except when it comes to Luscious Jackson, that is. ...
Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, July 1997
The sassy, free-thinking BROWNSTONE make their return this month with a second album, Still Climbing. In the words of their 1995 smash, 'If You Love ...
Primal Scream: Vanishing Point (Creation)
Review by Push, Muzik, August 1997
YOU CAN'T overestimate the importance of Primal Scream in the grand scheme of groovy things. ...
Report and Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, September 1997
Ten years in the business and COLDCUT are still sticking firmly to their original philosophy of always being ahead of their time. Revolutionary software. System-booting ...
Speed Garage: Sound Of The Future
Report and Interview by Bethan Cole, Muzik, September 1997
It's harden faster, sharper and more bass-heavy than ever before, it has MCs, rewinds, ragga vocals and time-stretching. Its energy and hedonism is hard to ...
David Holmes: Holmes On The Deranged
Report and Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, October 1997
Celtic soul brother DAVID HOLMES heads for Noo Yawk to hang with the homies, freaks and weirdos. The result? The seedy core of The Big ...
Massive Attack: Essential Music Festival, Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, October 1997
SCROWFFHHI! Whumphh! Elbows in face. Solid wall of pressed flesh barring entrance. Distant sounds of something vaguely musical happening on the horizon. Looks like it's ...
Roni Size and Reprazent: The best record of 1997
Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, November 1997
That's Roni Size and Reprazent's drum & bass classic New Forms. Or at least it is according to the Mercury Music Prize's panel of judges. ...
Interview by Bethan Cole, Muzik, November 1997
Things are on the up for Tuff Jam. They've got a peak time radio show, records in the charts and followers all over clubland. They ...
Daft Punk: Guildhall, Southampton
Live Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, December 1997
YOU COULD probably count the number of truly functioning live house acts on the cuticle of Mr Fingers' smallest digit. It's computer music, no fancy ...
The Anthill Mob, DJ Ride, KMA Productions, Skykap: Eastside Stories
Report by Bethan Cole, Muzik, December 1997
From the Krays to hardcore, London's East End has always nurtured its own club scene. A rawer, rougher, more honest flipside to the glitz you'll ...
Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers: Larry Heard: Heard it through the grapevine
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, December 1997
The word is out: the original deep house pioneer Larry Heard has decided to stop making music. Or has he? ...
Asian Dub Foundation: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Live Review by Andy Crysell, Muzik, January 1998
FUCK POLITICS, let's dance, yeah? What say we wiggle across the dancefloor, gobble up the chemicals and frug our worries clean away? ...
Goldie: Saturnz Return (London)
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, February 1998
OF COURSE you want to hate it. A grand folly. A vain, epic conceit. You've heard about Noel Gallagher and David Bowie and wondered what ...
Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, February 1998
He's finished with Björk. He's finished with Rob Playford. And he's finished with his mid-life crisis. He's just about to meet Val Kilmer, Laurence Fishburne ...
Dance Culture: One Nation Under A Groove
Essay by Bethan Cole, Muzik, March 1998
Ten years ago, a few hundred people were raving all night to the sounds of acid house. A year later there were a few thousand ...
Les Rythmes Digitales: Les Rhythmes Digitales: ULU, London
Live Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, May 1998
TEN MINUTES into the gig and Monsieur Jacques Lu Cont is about to have his cover blown, thanks to an oblivious Derek Dahlarge. "Stuart, Stuart!" ...
Thievery Corporation: Super sharp suiters
Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, May 1998
Smouldering bossa-nova, bespoke tailoring and white-collar audio criminality: are Washington DC's Thievery Corporation the new Kruder & Dorfmeister? Or just the new Corduroy? ...
Deep Dish: Junk Science (Deconstruction)
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, June 1998
JUNK SCIENCE arrives, ironically, long after the initial Deep Dish bubble appeared to have reached bursting point. Rewind a few years to those early Yoshitoshi ...
Money Mark: Push The Button (Mo'Wax)
Review by Andy Crysell, Muzik, June 1998
A QUICK recap: Money Mark used to be a carpenter. One day he was called out to mend the Beastie Boys' gate. They got on ...
Derrick May: Innovator (R&S) ★★★★★
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, July 1998
Domestic release of definitive Derrick May collection ...
Josh Wink: Herehear (Ovum/S2) **
Review by Andy Crysell, Muzik, July 1998
Original Philly dread returns from self-imposed hibernation ...
Red Snapper: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, August 1998
SO WE all thought Red Snapper were something to do with "jazz"? Richard Thair's lot have been called many things since they first stormed to ...
Faithless: "It's not just fucking chirpy nonsense"
Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, October 1998
FAITHLESS are back, bigger, better and bolder than before. They say God is a DJ. He's probably a Faithless fan ...
Grooverider: Mysteries Of Funk (Higher Ground)
Review by Andy Crysell, Muzik, October 1998
The drum & bass veteran finally gets his arse into gear ...
Rae & Christian: Northern Sulphuric Soul (Grand Central)
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, November 1998
Landmark hip hop soul album from underground Manchester pair with guests Jeru the Damaja, the Jungle Brothers, Texas and more ...
112, Faith Evans, Puff Daddy, Total: Puff Daddy & The Family: Sound Republic, London
Live Review by Andy Crysell, Muzik, December 1998
Is this the greatest showman on earth? ...
Faith Evans: Keep The Faith (Arista/Puff Daddy Records)
Review by Angus Batey, Muzik, January 1999
Notorious BIG's wife and R&B sensation's long-time-coming Puffy-produced second album ...
Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, February 1999
Jay-Z samples the musical Annie, raps about champagne and has just spent five weeks at the top of the American album charts, and he still ...
Paul van Dyk: Follow The Leader
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Muzik, September 1999
On a mission to the Love Parade with two million German ravers and the biggest trance DJ in the world. Paul van Dyk on Berlin, ...
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