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
Category: Features
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
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.
MEET BASS AGENDA’S CHARITY CAREBOT$
Get the lowdown on an epic compilation that aims to raise significant funds for the NHS and Medicines Sans Frontieres
LOCKDOWN LISTENING: BLEEP & BASS EDITION
There’s been a glut of great Bleep & Bass mixes and themed radio shows of late. Here we run down some of our favourites…
BLEEPOGRAPHY: 18 – FORGEMASTERS ‘TRACK WITH NO NAME’
The Bleepography returns after a short Easter break, with Matt Anniss focusing on the record that brought the world Warp Records, Forgemasters’ superb ‘Track With No Name’