Man Parrish ‘Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)’

byRobert Harris
April 11, 2024

Man Parrish tells the blistering story behind his futuristic and uncompromising 1982 floorfiller ‘Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)’ – barks and all

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Liquid Liquid ‘Optimo’

byRob Harris

Liquid Liquid’s Sal Principato tells us about their 1982 ’Optimo’ EP, which features the no wave classic ‘Cavern’, a track that caught Grandmaster Flash’s magpie ears

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4 minute read

Robert Hood ‘Rhythm Of Vision’

byPaul Clarke

Robert Hood’s 1994 album ‘Minimal Nation’ stripped techno back to its vital organs, marking the birth of an entirely new way to feel a genre. The Detroiter reveals the story behind one of its standout moments, ‘Rhythm Of Vision’

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4 minute read

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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4 minute read

A Certain Ratio ‘Shack Up’

byRob Harris

Martin Moscrop talks us through A Certain Ratio’s cover version of Banbarra’s 1975 funk barnstormer, ‘Shack Up’

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5 minute read

Richard Barratt ‘Testone’

byRob Harris

Sweet Exorcist’s Richard Barratt – aka DJ Parrot/Crooked Man – recalls the making of 1990’s essential bleep techno cut, ‘Testone’, with Richard H Kirk

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4 minute read

Orange Juice ‘Rip It Up’

byMatt Parker

The excellent Edwyn Collins explains how Buzzcocks, new-fangled bass synths and music press tittle-tattle shaped Orange Juice’s TB-303 trailblazer, ‘Rip It Up’.