Bethan Cole
Bethan Cole, b.1971, has written about music, fashion, beauty and the arts for the NME, The Big Issue, i-D, Vogue and The Sunday Times.
28 articles
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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 ...
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, March 1995
HE'S THE INVENTOR OF INTELLIGENT JUNGLE. HE'S HELD IN AWE BY ANDREW WEATHERALL. HE'S A PIONEER AND PRE-EMPTOR, A PRODUCER AND LABEL BOSS. HE'S LTJ ...
Jon of the Pleased Wimmin, Andrew Weatherall: Liverpool's Cream: Bag Company
Report by Bethan Cole, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995
TRAVELLING TO Liverpool by train, passing through the industrial landscape of warehouses and factories that once made Britain 'Great', you're reminded of the North's 19th ...
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 ...
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 ...
Juno Reactor: Goa: Trance tripping
Report by Bethan Cole, i-D, November 1995
Goa's legendary party scene has turned a global network of travellers on to its unique sound. Spiritual, psychedelic and blowing up across the world: is ...
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 ...
Daft Punk: What's Up? Daft Punk
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, December 1995
TWO THINGS you should know about Daft Punk. Firstly, they're not in the slightest bit stupid. Secondly, ostensibly, they've got nothing to do with 1977. ...
Coolio: Paradise Lost And Found
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, January 1996
Once the grim fictions of gangsta rap were Coolio's reality: gangs, guns, crack addiction, jail. Now he's swapped sin for salvation and notoriety for celebrity. ...
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 ...
Everything But The Girl: Once more, with feeling
Interview by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, April 1996
'Missing' was one of the most beautiful, evocative house records of recent years. Now Everything But The Girl are making jungle with the same kind ...
Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, May 1996
Leftfield are dance provocateurs who turned from the quick thrill of the clubland twelve-inch to take their place in the ranks of the unit-shifting, award-winning, ...
Report and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, June 1996
You reckoned the rave dream died years ago? Think again! They may have hung up their whistles and white gloves, but Scotland's musical youth are ...
Basement Jaxx, Idjut Boys: High In The Basement
Report and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, August 1996
As the tired ritual of corporate house culture burns itself out, something low key is rising from the ashes. It's eclectic, it's experimental and it's ...
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, October 1996
What happens when you remove all the boundaries? DJ Shadow's debut album, Entroducing, is a record without frontiers. ...
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? ...
Goldie, Menswear, Tricky: Pre Millennium Tension
Report by Bethan Cole, i-D, March 1997
Adolescent angst and twentysomething trauma used to be something of a cliché. But no longer. With admissions of young people to hospital at an all-time ...
Report and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, August 1997
IT HAPPENS like this: just when you're sitting comfortably, just when you least expect it, just from where you least expect it, along comes a ...
Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim: Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown: Nasty Girls
Essay by Bethan Cole, i-D, September 1997
Sisters with voices? Or Ladies with an attitude? Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown are just as nasty as they wanna be ...
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 ...
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, January 1998
AT THIS moment she's so far out, floating in her own self-programmed audiogalactic, that no one else in hip hop or R&B can touch her. ...
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 ...
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Eternal Ingénue: Charlotte Gainsbourg on Her Latest Stylish Role
Interview by Bethan Cole, The Independent, 9 July 2011
The daughter of Anglo-French musical royalty, Charlotte Gainsbourg was destined to be a performer — and now she's in the hottest arthouse film of the ...
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