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Feb 5, 20221 min read

Heller & Farley - Dynamic Duo

Remixing - The song to start with has to be good.. Many of us in prog circles will have fond memories of Heller & Farley. The Roach Motel...

PHC - JayDobie

Jan 29, 20222 min read

Power - Its about the DJ promotion..

1993 and Power are one of the biggest DJ promotion services in the UK.. Back at a time when I was regularly playing out and working in a...

PHC - JayDobie

Jan 21, 20221 min read

Drum Club.. Dancefloor & Production..

"We intend to add loads of new ideas to what's essentially trance music".. A Thursday night was always the way to start a weekend and...

PHC - JayDobie

Jan 15, 20221 min read

Rocky & Diesel.. Rock 2 House..

The partnership first came to prominence when they teamed up with Ashley Beedle.. Darren Rock and Darren House.. I always really liked...

PHC - JayDobie

Jan 8, 20221 min read

Dust Brothers.. Cut the Crap..

We like to work on the hoof.. Dust Brothers are of course a pair of American producers. However, for a short while the UK had its very...

PHC - JayDobie

Dec 17, 202116 min read

Fabio Paras - Walking Away..

Progressive Icon.. Musical Pioneer.. As the Facebook PHC group goes into its fourteenth year in 2022 and the blog approaches 30,000 hits...

PHC - JayDobie

Dec 11, 20211 min read

Joe T Vannelli.. A dubby mix

He's remixed Thelma Houston, Danny Tenaglia, Robert Miles and even Eartha Kitt.. You can't talk about Italian DJ producers without...

PHC - JayDobie

Nov 20, 20211 min read

MOS - The £500,000 sound system..

The sound system was originally tested to 156 decibels.. Hard to believe that the Ministry of Sound has been with us for 30 years now....

PHC - JayDobie

Nov 13, 20211 min read

Tony De Vit - Up the Brum..

You got me Burning Up.. While perhaps Tony De Vit may not be regarded as a progressive house DJ, for anybody that heard him play back in...

Playboys & Helicopter..freshblood remixers.

PHC - JayDobie

Nov 6, 20211 min read

Playboys & Helicopter..freshblood remixers.

Early nineties.. remix culture was becoming increasingly popular, this great DJ mag piece from 93 explores two prolific teams.. Playboys...

Billy Kiltie - Running Scotland's hottest record shop and label..

PHC - JayDobie

Oct 29, 20211 min read

Billy Kiltie - Running Scotland's hottest record shop and label..

This week we head back to 1993 and a DJ magazine article about the hugely popular record shop 23rd Precinct. Originally opened by an...

PHC - JayDobie

Oct 23, 20211 min read

Pete Tong - Essssential..

January 1993 - "they might be giving me more time next year; then I'm going to introduce more guests doing half hour mixes.." Pete Tong...

Home - £10,000,000 clubbing for the noughties..

PHC - JayDobie

Oct 16, 20212 min read

Home - £10,000,000 clubbing for the noughties..

Its how you look.. Its how you listen.. Its who you are.. Home nightclub.. (owners Big Beat International) Situated at No1 Leicester...

PHC - JayDobie

Oct 2, 20211 min read

Reasons to be cheerful..

Four independent record labels that helped define the sound of UK house music speak to Tony Marcus about what started to go right back in...

PHC - JayDobie

Sep 25, 20211 min read

Techno knows no face..

An early piece examining anonymity and aliases in dance music. Whilst even in 1992 the concept was not unheard of in other genres, house...

PHC - JayDobie

Sep 12, 20211 min read

Ambient - Where did it come from?

Follow up piece (1992) to the 1990 Mixmag feature exploring what was described as a 'bizarre phenomenon' - ambient house. Atmospheres and...

PHC - JayDobie

Sep 4, 202117 min read

Steve Parry - The Seladorian..

This month we were very pleased to sit down with one of the most humble and busy guys in dance music. He's forged a career which first...

PHC - JayDobie

Aug 29, 20211 min read

John Digweed - Natural Progression

A great one to stumble across this week. John Digweed talks his club night, musical style, Twilo and the two albums that were about to be...

PHC - JayDobie

Aug 27, 20211 min read

Kings of Clubs.. McClusky & Hannon

Always nice to come across a piece documenting the early nineties in clubland. Here we have Sean McClusky (Love Ranch & The Brain -...

PHC - JayDobie

Aug 13, 20211 min read

Lee Burridge - In the city..

He was one of the so called Nu-Breed. After a stint in Hong Kong where he helped launch the underground club scene he moved back to the...

While most at home with the trendier balearic crowd its just as capable of entrancing up a rave crowd.
Dom Phillips
Mixmag 1992

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