Your chance to view the archived broadcast of Matt Anniss’s acclaimed online talk on the roots and rise of acid house and rave culture in East Anglia
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LONG READ: THE STORY OF CHILL OUT MUSIC, 1988-95
In an essay first published by RBMA Daily in February 2016, JTF founder Matt Anniss tells the story of ambient house and the turn-of-the-’90s chill-out movement
FACEBOOK LIVE Q&A THIS THURSDAY
This Thursday (25th June), Join The Future’s Matt Anniss will be chatting to Velocity Press founder Colin Steven – and you can ask questions too
SALUTING THE ‘SALVADOR DALI OF RAVE’
As a new retrospective of Junior Tomlin’s visual work lands in bookstores, we salute the illustrator who arguably did more than anyone else to define the visual aesthetic of the rave era
JOIN THE FUTURE: MIX 02
Almost two years after its predecessor, the second Join The Future mix is here – and this time there’s both vintage tracks and contemporary cuts
STRUCTURAL RACISM IN UK DANCE MUSIC: TIME FOR ACTION
In a personal response to the killing of George Floyd and the continuing protests that followed, Matt Anniss discusses ways he has inadvertently maintained structural racism in UK dance music – and why he’ll be donating book sales royalties to anti-racism charities on both sides of the Atlantic.
