The Information – Documenting Dance Music History

I remember the day he posted it :astonished:… Breaking News first here on TP

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Wait, is my memory bad to the point that I read it here first too? Oh lord….

I drempt that the good @Doctorbrowncelray joined the chat briefly…

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Old school hip hop tapes guide. Lots of these are available on Soulseek and Youtube.

props from this original portlander for the clyde drexler reference

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Hey! Been a while. Good to see your name pop up @Doctorbrowncelray hope all is well.

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The Wire A-Z of Ambient
July 1993


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A comprehensive documentation of the Blackburn Warehouse scene. Some real gold here, the interviews with the people who were there are really worth listening to

https://www.acidhouseflashback.co.uk/

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Extensive new ‘anniversary’ interview with Morgan Khan up on Greg’s site

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Calibre Cuts was such an influence when we were at school, template for our mixtapes, no longer did we record our mixtapes with gaps trying to do a similar thing with the pause button, had no clue it was spliced. Still got my copy and bought a lot of tracks from it.

Posted before - a short film clocking in at 9:09 - about Daft Punk’s Chicago house roots. Features brilliant footage of the House-o-Matics dance crew.

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Thank you for posting these.

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Behind the Groove - Definitive article from early 80s that DJ Mag reprinted in their 93 disco edition that was when Mastercuts did the 1st Salsoul comp

A new mini documentary by Roland on Underground Resistance + Submerge, with interviews with Mad Mike, Cornelius Harris, Waajeed and many others

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Came out on the 1st
I enjoyed it even if it was quite short.
Mike and his sister and the submerge / UR crew are proper!!

Love what they’re doing at the Detroit school of arts. Imagine wajeed being your lecturer :sunglasses:

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'God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines’ (2022) is the story behind one of Detroit’s great contributions to world culture: Techno, the electronic music phenomenon created by Black artists in the 1980s that transformed dance music internationally and blossomed into the multi-billion dollar industry of EDM today.

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