Recent DJ Features
You can almost smell the crushed velvet. While Led Zeppelin were doing unspeakable things with sharks and glam rock was ubiquitous, thousands of musicians plied their trade in humbler surrounds. Performing in holiday camps and supper clubs, the cabaret band is as evocatively seventies as crimplene, Mike & Bernie Winters, the three-day week and the colour brown. Bill Brewster looks back at the heyday and impact of the cabaret band and its occasional forays into funky soul.
The Equals were a groundbreaking multiracial pop group at a time of terrible racism. This is the story of how they came together in a North London school... and how they fell apart.
First in a series of classic articles by dance music journalists, Dom Phillips introduces us to the phenomenon of progressive house, as originally published in Mixmag in 1992.
Recent DJ Interviews
DJ legends tell their tall tales over tea
The original superstar DJ on how he fixed it for British nightlife with the world's first discos in Leeds and Otley.
As a snake-hipped mod he scandalised London with the twist, then DJed his way through the swinging sixties.
Books
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- Mystery Mix :Sal Principato May 2008
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Recent DJ Interviews
It's spin up north. 'This England', classic northern soul documentary from 1977.
