While I'm in this techno/house groove we should have something from Detroit and one of the originators of the whole thing. Derrick Ma...

One of my favourite tunes of last year was Doc Daneeka's massively upbeat slice of retro-rave, recently repressed on vinyl. The ...

Almost everything I've posted here recently, except for the Ride song at the weekend, has been bleeps and squiggles, 303s and 808s, a...

A bank holiday bonus. I don't know if this is the best thing on the internet today but it's definitely up there.

Hardkiss were a San Franciscan trio who played a key role in the early 90s in establishing rave/dance music in the USA. At first they put...

This is Timothy J. Fairplay's remix of Mangsebung by Sweden's Fotan- thumping drum track, swirling noises and then the seagulls c...

I expressed the view on Twitter recently that the new single from Ride is a lovely thing, shot through with an end of summer feel. Opinio...

I mentioned LFO yesterday so it seems appropriate to follow up with something from their back catalogue. LFO were a Leeds based duo (Jez ...

One of the many very specific offshoots of the acid house revolution of 1988 was bleep 'n' bass, an almost exclusively northern s...

As well as the slightly Orbital-by-numbers new track Copenhagen (which has grown on me over the last week) Orbital have celebrated their ...

There are records that come along and surprise you sometimes, songs that show a change of direction, new influences, time spent with othe...

A New Order postscript- I meant to post this during last week's extravaganza and forgot so it's here as an extra. When Run 2 was ...

This came my way the other day, a massive, ominous, thundering piece of heavy duty ambient dub from 1992, Thrash and Greg Hunter reworkin...

Tonight we are going to my niece's 18th birthday party. She is a very artistic and creative person and has given her party a retro sp...

After all that New Order (and I could go on I'm sure) it's time for a change of pace and style. Andrew Weatherall has uploaded an...

Technique is my favourite New Order album. Released in January 1989 I was 18 years old and I bought it the day it came out and then playe...

Day 4 of New Order week and I've got two live performances for you and some discussion of related recorded work. First up is this, so...

By 1985 New Order were well into their stride, the faltering, unsure, step-by-step progress of the early years well in the past. 1983...

More early New Order. Movement was released in December 1981 and was by all accounts a difficult album to make. The group were unbalanced...

Before my holiday I promised/threatened some New Order posts, so that's what's happening for the next few days I think- nuclear w...