The epi­thets ‘God­fath­er of Techno’ and ‘Ori­gin­at­or’ have been applied to the musi­cian and  pro­du­cer Juan Atkins who passed away on Octo­ber 31^st 2026 at… Read more

Sampling is more than bor­row­ing some­body else’s melody. It’s music­al resur­rec­tion, cul­tur­al rebel­lion and an extraordin­ary act of artist­ic alchemy. But when an old record­ing… Read more

Twenty years after Back to Black, it’s time to recog­nise that Amy Wine­house did­n’t just bor­row hip-hop’s sound. She used its tech­niques. Amy Wine­house could… Read more

There was a time when suc­cess­fully imper­son­at­ing a rap­per required, at min­im­um, a base­ball cap, sev­er­al regret­table hand ges­tures and the con­fid­ence of a drunk… Read more