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: Long Reads
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: 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’
FROM THE ARCHIVE: NORWEGIAN GOOD (IDJ, 2007)
In 2007, Lindstrom, Prins Thomas and a young rising star called Todd Terje appeared on the cover of IDJ magazine. 18 years on, we share that cover feature – with a new contextualising introduction by its author, JTF founder Matt Anniss. Just don’t call it ‘Scando-learic’…
THE BBC’S NOT-SO ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF DANCE
‘This is not a history, but catnip for old ravers and Now That’s What I Call Dance Classics’ for younger listeners’. Matt Anniss dives into Radio 1 Dance’s series on ‘dance history’, urging the BBC to document our culture more authoritatively
LISTEN: A LIFE IN DJ MIXES
JTF founder Matt Anniss looks back on his DJ history through 15 years of mixes, highlighting a mix of live club recordings, conceptual workouts, dystopian journeys, breathless rave mix-ups, heady ambient soundscapes. and musical eclecticism
