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
31 articles
List of articles in the library by date
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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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