I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs – I expected lots of gory detail and exciting anecdotes and couldn’t wait to get to the acid house chapters….The…
love Jim. The Doors are my most favourite band and I’ve read a lot of material that has been released about them since their emergence in the 1960s rock movement out in Los Angeles, USA. This is probably the most definitive and largest biography that I have yet encountered on…
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This is the third Simon Spence book that I have read. He is a very talented music journalist from Manchester with a taste for documenting, wild, stylish cultural movements that have emerged from the Madchester craziness. Excess All Areas covers perhaps the most successful and innovative band to have ridden…
View More Review: Happy Mondays – Excess All Areas – by Simon Spence
I’ve already read a Matthew Collin book – This is Serbia Calling – so I was chuffed when I stumbled upon this work, a history of UK dance music culture. As a DJ and Promoter for 24 years I’m quite aware of a lot of the history of dance music…
View More Review: Altered State – The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House – by Matthew CollinTimothy Leary is an acid guru. It was him who truly brought LSD to the masses in the psychedelic 1960s as he turned from Harvard professor and dropped out of society to promote the new wave of LSD hippy counterculture. He became public enemy number 1 and was jailed but…
View More Review: I Have America Surrounded – The Life of Timothy Leary – by John Higgs
The Shuffle Show with Wez G – WEEK 3 – 16.11.14 – XPress Radio This week’s Shuffle Show on Xpress Radio sees host Wez G joined by Fran from Traffic, Cardiff University’s underground clubbing and Djing society. Also from Traffic, guest DJ Dom Varndell spins a minimix. :::TRACKLISTING::: # Artist…
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I felt like a bit of a change, a bit of an up-tempo feel to the mix to warm those toes in the murky winter weather… I’d recently put together a nice acid house feeling dub for a Brazilian vocalist to work on and wanted to fit it into the…
View More Wez G – Head Alchemy (DJ Set 65)
Beautiful Stranger is about that random woman you cross paths with in the street. The casual glance, the seductive smile, a breath of fresh air in an otherwise dull day. Soundtrack to your mystery encounter, ‘Beautiful stranger’ is melodic, progressive, has some lovely vocals, and finishes with some far out,…
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A fresh, funky mix of chilled beats and bang it up tribal and progressive, perfect for an African sunset. Let me take you on a trip…SO HIGH!!! :::Tracklist::: Time Track 0:05 Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance (Fast Pop Mix) [Circa Records] 4:30 Underground Sound Of Lisbon – African Dream [Twisted] 11:23 Barrio…
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