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.
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Author, journalist, researcher, dance music historian, DJ, record collector, speaker, podcaster and founder of Join The Future.
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.
REAPPRAISED: 03 – CLAUSELL: DON’T LET IT BE CRACK
Matt Anniss looks back on the NY and NJ proto-house movement’s 1986 “anti-crack” record – a response to an epidemic of addiction and death that was then sweeping through New York City.
EVENT: TALKING RURAL RAVE CULTURE & COMMUNITIES AT WELL DRESSED SOCIAL, DERBY
JTF founder Matt Anniss will be discussing his research and ‘hidden histories’ of rural rave across England and Wales ahead of a screening of Aaron Trinder’s fine documentary, ‘Free Party: A Folk History’
READ & LISTEN: RECALLING THE COLLECTIVE JOY OF WATCHING TREES 2025
Matt Anniss looks back at the 2025 edition of Optimo and Ransom Note’s Watching Trees micro-festival – and shares the recording of his ‘watching morning’ ambient DJ set
LISTEN: JOIN THE FUTURE MIX 03
The Join The Future mix series returns, with Matt Anniss delivering a nu-disco, dub disco and deep house throwdown – with a few surprises thrown in!
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