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In amidst the endless how-to-hakken reels.... ... and the countless clips of scanty-clad female deejays jiggling as they performatively tweak the knobs ... driving huge crowds inexplicably wild with the tame-old same-old sounds of an endless, extending-in…

Listening to this perfect little tune - a favorite from 2step garage days - I noticed how the whole track is propelled along by horn fanfares.

My Instagram keep throwing up reels of Charlotte de Witte, who apparently is one of the biggest deejays in the world.

I was quite taken with the Bass-O-Matic album, cringe though the band name is In the review, I make that cardinal rockcrit error of looking for the dance artist who can sustain at album level.

Thanks to Gemma Ross for including Futuromania in the Mixmag list of summer reading for dance music fiends The full list is here, a worthy bunch to sit alongside indeed

From a 1971 issue of Melody Maker Still, there are two turntables - plus bonus feature of a built-in cassette recorder!

Pure Gurley gorgeousness in this Rogue Unit mix Such emotional subtlety to almost anything Steve Gurley touches The other versions - nice 'n' slinky Ray Keith (+ Nookie) work-over in two parts and then the Shades of Rhythm version, the "Hard" Halfway thro…

Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - Danceteria oral history by Joy Press, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club in the 1980s.

Had Instagram for ages and ages but never got into looking at it regularly until quite recently.... the algorithm quickly learned to serve me up dance music, as that's what I'd linger on.

Sourced in Isn't she lovely?

Well, a dream comes true - I appear on a pirate radio station.

Well, I may not have provoked a musician to pen a retaliation tune (unlike my own flesh and blood, who recently joined a select pantheon of irritant critics).

Made me mad?

This video for the Monolithikmaniak mix of “Window in the Sky” - only to be found in this fuzzy, off-TV video cassette recording - is some kind of audio-video apex of its era.

Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune that's some folk-memory persistence some contiNUUMity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ooh a UKG refix of what on some days is my absolute favoritest jungle tune of all-est time.

Everyone knows about Moving Shadow coming from Stevenage But I hadn't realized that Ruff Kut!

Enjoy this forensic analysis by Michaelangelo Matos of a classic pirate radio set.

This pair had a Top 10 hit with a song that is basically about an intra-scene war - the nu garage rappists (Oxide + Neutrino, So Solid) versus the old guard.

just some of the obvious greats... but Sly (with and without Robbie) did all sorts of odd things Dunbar worked on a record by Jackson Browne!

Brand-new anachronism from Z-Neo Fault-less - very-nearly-convincing as time travel The artwork by one AROE is very in the wildstyle of DJ Trax early releases on Moving Shadow release rationale "Z-Neo's new album RE:Z is his fantastic & most exhilarating…

Big shout to Matthew Ingram the Mighty Woebot whose tape of the early Black Dog EPs introduced me to their most magickal musik phase.

Talking about favorite records of the 21st Century so far...

A long overdue big shout going out to S.

Always felt this tune by Dev, "In the Dark" - my fave single of 2011 - was a UK garage flashback / rip-off.

Three pieces very much worth reading: 1/ James Parker with a short piece at the Atlantic on the mystery of drumming and its relationship to Time and Flow (spinning off a book that also sounds worth reading: John Lingan’s Backbeats: A History of Rock and R…