Interviews

Guest Reviewer: John Dahlbäck

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on February 22, 2012
The immensely talented Swedish producer, John Dahlbäck, joins us for a chat and fills us in on producing records since the age of 15, his favourite places to spin and about his superb new compilation for Toolroom Records.

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5 Music Making Tips; Da Fresh (interview)

Reported by Joshua [Trackitdown] on February 20, 2012
Specializing in creating devastatingly groovy killer crunchy tech-house beats, French producer Arnaud (his surname) aka Da Fresh has been a Skrufff favourite for the last couple of years.

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Guest Reviewer: Cosmic Gate

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on February 20, 2012
German production duo Cosmic Gate have been in the game for just over a decade but in that time they have accomplished more than most artists can hope to achieve across a whole lifetime. 

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Guest Reviewer: Noisia

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on February 17, 2012
This week we welcome Dutch trio Noisia into the Guest Reviewer hot seat! We're huge fans of their genre busting bass productions and get extremely excited whenever we hear a new Noisia release is on the horizon. 

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5 Music Making Tips: Jupiter Ace (interview)

Reported by JontySkrufff on February 17, 2012
With Mixmag recently labeling him ‘Ireland’s answer to Eric Prydz’ Jupiter Ace, a.k.a Gregory Ferguson, appears on course for imminent pop crossover success, in particular courtesy of his new track Wheel of Life.

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5 Music Making Tips: Nir Shoshani (interview)

Reported by JontySkrufff on February 16, 2012
As well as being the A&R for thriving Israeli tech-tribal label Punch Music, Nir Shoshani is a seriously accomplished producer in his own right, travelling the world for over 14 years spinning and releasing top quality techno and progressive tinged tech-house.  Click here for more; http://soundcloud.com/nirshoshani 

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5 Music Maker Tips; Steve Mac (interview)

Reported by JontySkrufff on February 16, 2012
Starting out making music aged just 15, Steve Mac’s teamed up with production partner Rob Chetcuti to form Rhythm Masters in the mid 90s, going on to release scores of massive house records together before splitting in 2002.

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Interview With DJ Fresh

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on February 15, 2012

In 2011 the sound of DJ Fresh took to the mainstream airwaves thanks to his crossover smash hit 'Louder' and high profile remixes for the likes of Herve and Wretch 32. 

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Guest Reviewer: Eats Everything

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on February 10, 2012
With his releases on Pets Recordings and dirtybird being championed by the likes of Pete Tong, Claude VonStroke, Maya Jane Coles, A-Trak, and Carl Cox it was not surprising to see Bristol producer Eats Everything emerge as one of the most promising artists of 2011. The now seminal Entrance Song featured on a series of high profile Essential Mix episodes before Eats Everything himself was invited to perform on the coveted mix series.

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Guest Reviewer: Angerfist

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on February 9, 2012
Having represented the hardest form of electronic music for many years, it was this years explosion into the higher end of the DJ Mag Top 100 Poll powered by Trackitdown.net that brought Angerfist to a whole new level.

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Krankbrothers Interview

Reported by Joshua [Trackitdown] on February 6, 2012

Danny Clancy and Kieran Clancy are the founders, organisers and resident DJs at Krankbrother. Evolving from a private party in Corsica Studios, the last couple of years have seen them develop Krankbrother into one of the most cutting edge parties in the capital, as well as now being an equally exciting DJ duo of the same name. We caught up with the pair ahead of them playing Connected at Cable on Saturday Feb 11th with Waifs & Strays, Krankbrothers & more

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Droog’s Andrei Osyka: From LA With Love (SWMC) (Interview)

Reported by JontySkrufff on February 3, 2012
One of the more prominent and international events taking place at next weekend’s Sochi Music Winter Conference 2012 will be the showcase of LA's stellar label — Culprit.

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“Basically Russia is a large country with tremendous resources and almost unlimited opportunities. If the majority of the club industry stops striving for the lowest possible denominator with which to earn money, we will have a music scene to rival that of any other big electronic scene in the world.”

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Guest Reviewer: D-Nox & Beckers

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on January 31, 2012

Since coming together in the mid 2000's the formidable duo of D-Nox & Beckers have been taking their unique blend of house, minimalism and techno to all corners of the globe via some of the world's biggest and most discerning dance floors and festival. Over the years, their high calibre productions have appeared on labels such as Baroque Records, Craft Music, Great Stuff Recordings, Toolroom Records, D-Nox's own Sprout Music and of course, Christian Smith's Tronic.

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Guest Reviewer: Marcel Woods

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on January 30, 2012
Marcel Woods is one of the most influential movers and shakers in the Dutch dance scene. Since the mid-90's he has been at the forefront of music label management, production and of course performance all over the world!

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Lauhaus; Don’t Call Me (Only) Polder (interview)

Reported by JontySkrufff on January 25, 2012
Dutch minimal tech-house type Lauhaus visits Moscow superclub Arma 17 this weekend (January 27) to spin alongside Berliner Jonty Skrufff and Russian producers Mike Spirit and Special Case.

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Guest Reviewer: X-Press 2

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on January 19, 2012
We are extremely honoured to welcome house music pioneers X-Press 2 as this week's Guest Reviewers.

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Guest Reviewer: Dodge & Fuski

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on January 16, 2012
As Guest Reviewers this week we are joined by UK bass production outfit Dodge & Fuski. The guys had been steadily building pace on the scene with releases and gigs from 2006 but the world took notice of their massive 2 track EP for Sludge Records in 2010 and it wasn't long before the big boys started knocking on their door. Early the following year they were snapped by the formidable Never Say Die Recordings and things quickly went stratospheric.

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Guest Reviewer: Nic Fanciulli

Reported by Jack Bridges TID on January 11, 2012
This week we are honoured to welcome none other than Nic Fanciulli into the Guest Reviewer hot seat. Since the mid 2000's Nic Fanciulli has been blazing a trail across the world's most discerning dancefloors with his distinctive brand of house and techno whilst simultaneously releasing an impressive calibre of music via labels including Ovum, Renaissance, Global Underground, Sci + Tec, Rejected and of course, his very own label, Saved Records.

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2012: Is the End Nigh (Or Not?): Mugwump (interview)

Reported by JontySkrufff on January 9, 2012
According to the Mayan Calendar the world (or at least civilisation) is due to end cataclysmically on December 21st 2012.  With economists and futurologists also almost all predicting a year of upheaval, Skrufff asked a bunch of our favourite DJs and personalities for their predictions for 2012; both musically and apocalypse-wise . . .

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