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Jamie Harley: Surfing On The Sine Waves

You won’t have heard of him before, but you will have heard his work. Jamie Harley is the sound engineer that everyone from Aphex Twin and Autechre to Fuck Buttons and Hot Chip turns to when they’re doing a live show. And if you ever need a room ringing out, Jamie is your man
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Dan Tombs: Vision On

Have you ever been to a live show and wondered where, as if by magic, the images and graphics and fancy lights come from? If you’ve seen Jon Hopkins or Blanck Mass this summer, you’ve been wowed by visual artist Dan Tombs
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Amon Tobin: Live And Direct

Superstar sonic boffin Amon Tobin has just performed his head-spinningly spectacular ‘ISAM’ live show for the very last time. Before he “takes it into the desert and burns it”, the revered master of sound and light talks about the genesis of the ‘ISAM’ concept and his unique approach to making electronic music an all-encompassing live experience
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Top Trackage

Our new monthly round-up of top trackage – courtesy of the man who invented the phrase “trance trousers”
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A Guy Called Gerald

Gerald Simpson, better known as A Guy Called Gerald, reveals the inspirations and influences behind his work going right back to his earliest days as a pioneering force of the UK acid house scene
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Hardkiss At The 1995 Billboard Dance Music Summit

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