Find out more about Matt Anniss’s PhD research project – and how you can contribute right now by sharing your experiences and memories of pay-raves and free parties in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
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Author, journalist, researcher, dance music historian, DJ, record collector, speaker, podcaster and founder of Join The Future.
LISTEN: MATT ANNISS, DJ RICHIE & JONATHAN P WATTS IN CONVERSATION
A special bonus episode of Join The Future on Noods, showcasing a recording of a conversation between Jonathan P Watts, Matt Anniss and DJ Richie in front of a live audience at PrimeYarc, Great Yarmouth, in March 2023
EVENT: UNCOVERING HIDDEN RAVE HISTORY IN NORWICH
Join The Future founder Matt Anniss is heading over to East Anglia next week to promote his PhD research project. While there, he’ll be hosting a talk and book reading at the Holloway in Norwich.
LISTEN: JTF ON NOODS – MARCH 2025
Hear from electronic music polymath Mark Pritchard and Sheffield trio The All Seeing I on the latest episode of our ongoing Noods Radio residency.
REAPPRAISED: 02 – MR HERMANO: FREE AS THE MORNING SUN
For the second entry in our ongoing Reappraised series, Matt Anniss revisits Mr Hermano’s joyous, sunrise-ready Carlos Santana cover, ‘Free As The Morning Sun’
REAPPRAISED: 01 – HENRIK SCHWARZ: SUPRAVISION EP
In the first of a continuing series re-assessing records in his collection, Matt Anniss returns to Henrik Schwarz’s 2002 debut, the Supravision EP, hailing the majesty of slow-motion chugger ‘Marvin’
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