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
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Author, journalist, researcher, dance music historian, DJ, record collector, speaker, podcaster and founder of Join The Future.
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.
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’
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