Hear the long-serving Michigan producer discussing his long career, creative process, varied influences, different projects and fine new album as Placid Angles, ‘Canada’.
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LISTEN: JTF MIX 04 – JD TWITCH’S STEPPERS MIX (2021)
A chance to listen to a killer selection of high-grade steppers reggae gems from the JTF archive, mixed to perfection by the late Optimo co-founder
REAPPRAISED: 04 – THE FIREMAN: RUSHES
Matt Anniss dusts down an overlooked 1998 collaboration between Youth and Paul McCartney, a fine example of the latter’s love of risk-taking and experimentation
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.
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!
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