As it turns 40, Matt Anniss revisiys Pet Shop Boys first remix album, Disco, and asks: can a remix album be more culturally significant that the original album that inspired it?
Category: Features
LISTEN: JOHN BELTRAN IN CONVERSATION
Hear the long-serving Michigan producer discussing his long career, creative process, varied influences, different projects and fine new album as Placid Angles, ‘Canada’.
DEAR KEITH: A PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO JD TWITCH
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
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.
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
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’
