Read the first UK media article about ‘bassline house’ – the precursor to bassline – in full, with a new contextualising introduction.
Category: Features
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF BASSLINE
To mark a quarter of a century since the birth of bassline, we’ve put together two audio documentaries and a slew of related articles.
RICHARD H KIRK, 1956-2021
Join The Future author Matt Anniss pays tribute to the Cabaret Voltaire and Sweet Exorcist co-founder, who passed away earlier this week aged 65
LONG READ: THE STORY OF CHILL OUT MUSIC, 1988-95
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
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.
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