Calvin Bush
Calvin Bush wrote extensively for Muzik and other dance magazines.
24 articles
List of articles in the library
Sheep On Drugs: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
Live Review by Calvin Bush, Melody Maker, 8 May 1993
HERE ARE some of the things you should never do at a Sheep On Drugs show: faint with pleasure, give birth, applaud, offer up flowers/puppy ...
Report and Interview by Calvin Bush, i-D, November 1994
Driving and driven. A DJ, record label boss, club promoter and artist, at just 23 Richie Hawtin is pushing his body and music to the ...
Profile and Interview by Calvin Bush, i-D, December 1994
i-D's BEST OF British pop special starts with M People. Winners of this year's prestigious Mercury Music Prize, like fellow Britpop protagonists Blur and the ...
Profile and Interview by Calvin Bush, i-D, February 1995
BEING UNIQUE means both having no equals and standing alone. Celebrating freedom, lamenting solitude. The infinite vastness of the air you breathe and the pressured ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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!" ...
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 ...
Derrick May: Innovator (R&S) ★★★★★
Review by Calvin Bush, Muzik, July 1998
Domestic release of definitive Derrick May collection ...
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 ...
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 ...
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