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Emma Warren

Emma Warren

Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture for decades. She is the author of Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre, Steam Down: Or How Things Begin, Document Your Culture and Dance Your Way Home: A Journey through the Dancefloor. Emma was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked on staff at The Face, and spent six years as an editorial mentor at Brixton youth-run Live Mag. She has a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM and runs her own Sweet Machine publishing. Her work has appeared in: The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Fader, Select, Mixmag, Dazed & Confused, Muzik, DJ Magazine, Downbeat and others. 

(photo © Theo Ndlovu)

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LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad: LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad in... Mission Possible

Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1996

LTJ Bukem, the man behind the 50,000 selling Logical Progression album, the excellent Good Looking and Looking Good labels and drum 'n' bass classics 'Music', ...

Bryan Gee, DJ Dazee, DJ Die, DJ Krust, Flynn & Flora, Henry & Louis, Massive Attack, Peter D. Rose, Roni Size and Reprazent, Smith & Mighty, The Wild Bunch: Bristol responds to Bass

Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1996

More than any other British city Bristol has always had an identifiable musical sound. From Smith and Mighty, Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead, to current ...

Daft Punk: Clubs: Daft Punk

Interview by Emma Warren, The Face, February 1997

ANYONE WHO'S ever found themselves propelled on to the middle of the dancefloor as soon as the twisted "wah wah" strains of 'Da Funk' hit ...

DJ Krush: MiLight (Mo' Wax)

Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1997

TOKYO B-BOY DJ Krush, purveyor of the original spooked instrumental head nodder, is back. Alongside Shadow, and Mo' Wax's beat symphonies, Krush and co helped ...

A Guy Called Gerald: Have You Ever Ridden a Horse? A Guy Called Gerald

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1997

IS SPEED GARAGE SELFISH? IS EVERYONE A NUMBER? DOES DERRICK MAY LOOK LIKE EDDY MURPHY? GERALD SIMPSON THINKS SO AND HE'S SEEN BIGGIE AND TUPAC ...

Air: Moon Safari (Virgin)

Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1997

PARIS' PREMIER sound sculptors have long advocated the beauty of sound over dancefloor considerations, and with Moon Safari they've nailed their flag to a vocodered ...

Air: Get some Air!

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1997

AIR ARE THE MOST SOPHISTICATED DUO TO EMERGE FROM THE PARISIAN SCENE. EMMA WARREN FINDS THEY HAVE MORE IN COMMON WITH DEBUSSY THAN DAFT PUNK ...

Ed Rush & Optical: Ed Rush and Optical: Jungle Fever

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, February 1998

ED RUSH AND OPTICAL HAVE JOINED FORCES WITH VIRUS, THEIR NEW IMPRINT DEDICATED TO DIRTY DRUM 'N' BASS. EMMA WARREN GETS INFECTED. ...

Matthew Herbert: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Radioboy

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, February 1998

MATTHEW HERBERT HAS KILLED OFF HIS EGG WHISK PLAYING WISHMOUNTAIN GUISE TO CREATE THE SUIT PEELING RADIOBOY! EMMA WARREN TUNES IN. ...

Jeff Mills: Doing it on Purpose

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, June 1998

JEFF MILLS, LAUNCHES HIS PURPOSE MAKER ALBUM, ABOUT LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WITH A PHOTO EXHIBITION OF HIS FAMOUS "FAST" HANDS AND LESS FAMOUS ...

Ed Rush & Optical, Grooverider: Grooverider: New Funk Theory

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1998

DRUM 'N' BASS' MOST POPULAR DJ IS JUST ABOUT TO RELEASE HIS DEBUT LONG PLAYER. EMMA WARREN TALKS DOUBLE JAZZ INFLUENCED CONCEPT ALBUMS WITH THE ...

UNKLE: Psyence Fiction (Mo Wax)

Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, August 1998

New Adventures in Psy-Fi! ...

UNKLE: HMV, Oxford Street, London

Live Review by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1998

Back to the Futura! UNKLE may not have mastered playing live yet, but they can still put on a show with a little help from ...

Basement Jaxx: The House that Jaxx Built

Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, April 1999

HAVING JUST COMPLETED THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR SO FAR, BASEMENT JAXX ARE ABOUT TO KICK HOUSE MUSIC INTO THE NEXT CENTURY: NOT BEFORE SHOWING ...

Layo & Bushwacka!: Lowlife's Come...

Profile and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, December 1999

LAYO & BUSHWACKA HAVE MADE AN ALBUM AS TASTY AS FOOD AT THE END'S AKA RESTAURANT. EMMA WARREN CHOWS DOWN WITH THEM ON SOME SUBTERRAIN ...

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