Matt Anniss shares on update on his ongoing PhD research into rural rave culture in East Anglia, outlining the next stage of the ongoing project.
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Author, journalist, researcher, dance music historian, DJ, record collector, speaker, podcaster and founder of Join The Future.
REAPPRAISED: 04 – THE FIREMAN: RUSHES
Matt Anniss dusts down an overlooked 1998 collaboration between Youth and Paul McCartney, a fine example of the latter’s love of risk-taking and experimentation
DEAR KEITH: A PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO JD TWITCH
Matt Anniss pays tribute to the late, great JD Twitch, who passed away recently, sharing an expanded and re-edited version of a message he sent following the Optimo co-founder’s terminal diagnosis earlier in the year
LISTEN: ‘THE HARDCORE CONUNDRUM’ – A CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY DICKER
In a specially extended bonus episode of Join The Future’s ongoing radio show/podcast series, author Holly Dicker talks in depth about her history of hardcore, ‘Dance or Die’, gabber, Rotterdam raves, free party culture and documenting demonised dance music movements.
EVENT: ‘BLEEP + BASS + BEYOND’ PANEL IN LEICESTER
This Thursday, JTF founder Matt Anniss will be heading to Leicester to talk about bleep & bass, as part of R10.EMS and Kontakt’s ‘Sound’ season.
LISTEN: JOIN THE FUTURE ON NOODS, AUGUST 2025
On the latest episode of Join The Future’s monthly Noods Radio show, Matt Anniss joins the dots between ambient, weirdness, IDM, dub, UK bass and twisted acid house.
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