Janine Rainforth ‘Stretch’

byAnton Spice
October 13, 2022

Maximum Joy’s Janine Rainforth recalls the making of the Bristol post-punk band’s 1981 debut ‘Stretch’, a dub-inspired single which became a surprise hit on the dancefloors of NYC

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Irmin Schmidt ‘SPOON’

byJools Stone

Can’s Irmin Schmidt reflects on the making of ‘SPOON’, the game-changing single from ‘Ege Bamyasi’

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Dave Clarke ‘Wisdom To The Wise’

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Dave Clarke talks about ‘Wisdom To The Wise’, one of the finest, hard-hitting cuts from his ‘Red’ series, and indeed from techno history

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Bauhaus ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’

byJools Stone

Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash takes us back to the dying days of 1978 and the genesis of ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, a cornerstone track that launched an entire genre and subculture

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Strafe ‘Set It Off’

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Steve Standard recalls the making of his haunting electro classic ‘Set It Off’, released under the name Strafe, which took 1980s New York by storm

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Dubstar ‘Stars’

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Dubstar’s Steve Hillier explains how a breaks album, dub reggae and a nightclub closure fed into their 1995 hit ‘Stars’

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‘Runaway Train’, a stark live recording of radio communication between the driver of derailing Canadian train and his controller, appeared on vinyl in 1993, uncredited on the Ash International label. It was of course an early Scanner release. Robin Rimbaud talks us through the extraordinary release…

Janine Rainforth ‘Stretch’

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Anton Spice

Irmin Schmidt ‘SPOON’

Dave Clarke ‘Wisdom To The Wise’

Bauhaus ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’

Strafe ‘Set It Off’

Dubstar ‘Stars’

Scanner ‘Runaway Train’

Robert Görl

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Jimi Tenor

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Janine Rainforth ‘Stretch’

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