John Cage and Marcel Duchamp

byJeremy Allen
December 7, 2023

In 1968, John Cage and Marcel Duchamp played a game of chess involving pieces that generated electronic sounds and a very expensive bottle of wine. The details of what actually happened that night were pored over by historians for years after

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Einstürzende Neubauten

byDave Simpson

In January 1984, German experimental noise pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten performed the Concerto For Voice And Machinery in all its spontaneous glory at the ICA in London. Art? Or demolition?

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5 minute read

Greg Wilson

byNeil Mason

We rewind to 1983 and find ourselves in a time when one record player seemed ample. And then along comes DJ godhead Greg Wilson and he’s live on the telly with two record players and they’re called “turntables”. Whatever next?

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8 minute read

We Are The Muzik Makers

byNeil Mason

In 1995, a new music magazine catapulted underground electronic music into the mainstream. To mark 20 years since the first issue of MUZIK, we track down its founders to tell the full story (although it wasn’t that hard to find them)

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7 minute read

Hardkiss At The 1995 Billboard Dance Music Summit

byKris Needs

When the distinguished American music trade mag hosted its Dance Music Summit in San Francisco in January 1995, little did they know that the stars of the show would be Hardkiss, an underground outfit who would inadvertently help lay the foundations of today’s EDM craze

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