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
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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 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!
HELP US CREATE A NEW HISTORY OF RAVE CULTURE IN EAST ANGLIA
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
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.
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