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?
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LISTEN: JTF ON NOODS JUNE 2026 – COOLING SOUNDS FOR EXTREME HEAT
As the UK melts under extreme heat, JTF founder Matt Anniss mixes up ambient, folk, IDM, electro, fourth world records and other cooling, shady sounds.
LISTEN: TALKING SHEFFIELD MUSIC HISTORY WITH DANIEL DYLAN WRAY
On the latest episode of Join The Future on Noods, Sheffield-based music journalist Dan Dylan Wray takes time out to discuss some of the themes in his acclaimed new history of independent music in the Steel City, Laidback, Groovy & Nasty.
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’.
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
