Stationed behind the decks, Rusty Egan made the Blitz club tick and was pivotal to the electronic and new romantic cause. With a definitive Blitz boxset incoming – curated by the man himself – he regales us with colourful tales of Kraftwerk, globetrotting and his late-career rebirth

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