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TOP 100 DJs POLL THE FULL RESULTS! INTERVIEWS WITH ALL THE TOP JOCKS THE TRENDS, NEW ENTRIES & STATS

NINA KRAVIZ, , & MORE TALK ABOUT THEIR MENTORS • MUSIC • CLUBS SPOTLIGHT ON UNSUNG PIONEERS DJ PIERRE, MIKE DUNN & DJ BONE • TECHNOLOGY

TECH AWARDS RESULTS!

• ALL THE BEST NEW KIT

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF

MARTIN GARRIX STILL THE WORLD’S NO.1 DJ! No. 575 November 2017 £4.95

PLUS: , , TOUGH LOVE, NASTIA, JORI HULKKONEN, JENSEN INTERCEPTOR, No.575 November 2017 £4.95 RAHAAN, DANA RUH, BYRON THE AQUARIUS, BILL BREWSTER, PETER VAN HOESEN,

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040 WORLD’S NO.1 DJ Having claimed the Top 100 DJs crown for the second year in a row, shares his top moments of the past 12 months... Cover pic: LOUISA VAN DOODAR

037 TOP 100 DJS COUNTDOWN 130 UNDER THE INFLUENCE 137 HISTORY IN THE MAKING The full results from this year’s Top 100 DJs Nina Kraviz, Eats Everything, Andy C and We chat to DJ Pierre, Mike Dunn and DJ Bone poll, with handy analysis from our hacks too... more reveal their DJing mentors... about making noise from behind the scenes...

145 AGE OF AQUARIUS 148 CATCH THE BEAT 160 FRIEND ZONE Rising Atlanta star Byron The Aquarius DJ Mag chases down Jenson Interceptor to We join Nic Fanciulli to celebrate fi ve years of discusses the move from to house... talk all things electro... his Maidstone-based fest, The Social...

016 COMIN’ UP Golden Teacher, Peter Van Hoesen, FEMME, Joki Hulkkonen, Tru Thoughts, Bill Brewster... 156 ON THE FLOOR Discovering fresh talent in Poland, exploring Oasis Festival, Fly Open Air reviewed... 187 MUSIC REVIEWS Call Super, Extrawelt, Anja Schneider, Roman Flügel, SMD, Honey Dijon, Kelela, Rocks FOE... 224 THE BEAT OF THE DRUM 227 CIRCUIT BREAKER 214 TECH Experimental footwork producer, We get to grips with Novation’s new Mono Secret Cinema does Maschine Jam, V-Moda Machinedrum, invites us inside his studio... Circuit Station synthesiser... Crossfade 2s, Sound Device PreMix 6...

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Advertising Sales & Marketing Director Heath Holmes [email protected] Sales Manager Chris Blackhall [email protected] CONGRATS, MARTY! Advertising Manager Iain McGoldrick [email protected] So there’s a new set of Top 100 DJs results, and it’s perhaps no Managerial surprise that Dutch wunderkind Martin Garrix has retained the No.1 Publisher James Robertson spot — he’s had such a big year, as we profile in his big winner’s Managing Director Martin Carvell feature from page 40 onwards. Who else could you imagine winning Accounts Patricia Jordan [email protected] this year? I first interviewed Garrix just after his big breakthrough track ‘Animals’ dropped. He was extremely well-adjusted for one so young Events — but then most of the Dutch DJs I’ve met seem to be, too. I Head of Events Adam Saville [email protected] remember thinking how mad it was that one big record could Events Booker Alex Donald [email protected] catapult you into an international DJ career, but he’s shown since Events Manager Alex Anderson [email protected] that he’s no one-hit wonder. So let’s adopt a goofy voice and say ‘Congrats, Marty!’… A few of the chairs have been re-arranged at the top end of the chart Subscriptions (page 48 onwards), but a bit further down the poll a slew of Email [email protected] ‘underground’ names have been voted in — Solomun, Black Coffee, Telephone +44 20 7684 4881 , , Alison Wonderland, Andy C, Disclosure Online subscribe.djmag.com etc. This perhaps suggests that the EDM stranglehold on the Top 100 is on the wane, and that clubbers from the more discerning scenes

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DJS PLEDGE THOUSANDS IN WAKE OF RECENT TRAGEDIES and call on other DJs to dig deep for good causes

THIS YEAR has seen a number of tragedies, both half the money from those discounted tickets to with an overwhelming response from the EDM natural and man-made, shock the globe, and often the disaster relief fund. world, for which Las Vegas has become a particular has seemed as if the whole world is crashing down hub. The likes of , , Calvin around us (after all, good news doesn’t sell). Several days later, Diplo donated $100,000 to the Harris and answered the call, while Recently, however, big name DJs have been using Las Vegas shooting victims’ fund. The Vegas attack, Tiësto and even doubled the amount, their money and infl uence to at least help the which took place during a country music festival, raising almost $1 million in a single day. situation as best they can. was the worst mass shooting in US history, with a Of course, money can’t make up for the horror lone gunman killing 58 people and injuring over endured by the victims, or the pain the families Tech-house star Seth Troxler donated $10,000 from 500 more. of those lost are going through now. However, it his fee for October’s Ultra Mexico to the Mexico “My deepest sympathies are with the victims of can ease pressure, and help to rebuild or reduce City earthquake relief fund. The earthquake, which the horrifi c tragedy and their families,” read a the chance of more deaths in the future by struck on 19th September, killed over 370 people, statement from Diplo posted on . “It’s my starting a conversation. Dance music is now one and left over 6,000 more injured. hope that these events will start a long-awaited of the creative sector’s biggest markets, and with Troxler challenged other headliners to match his and honest conversation about the importance that power, the responsibility it has to act on its donation via his Twitter account, with Top 100 DJs of gun control in America. Las Vegas is my home, founding principles of love and unity is greater winner, Martin Garrix, and veteran, Richie and it’s devastating to see this happen in such a than ever. From looking at the Top 100 DJs profi les Hawtin, answering the call. vibrant city with an amazing community of people this issue, it already seems that an increasing Meanwhile, the festival’s organisers did their bit I consider my family.” number of DJs are supporting charities on a day to too, slashing ticket prices and promising to donate Diplo also asked other DJs to donate to the cause, day basis.

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DJ575.CU-CU1.indd 16 16/10/2017 16:25 DJ MAG CO-HOSTS LONDON FILM INCOMING Helena Hauff HELENA HAUFF SCREENINGS has dropped ‘Have You Been There, We partner with the Doc’N Roll fi lm fest to show the world Have You Seen It’ premiere of Manchester Keeps On Dancing and the acclaimed EP for Raving Iran... and it’s pure electro dynamite!

Patrick Topping Hot Creations HQ has been super busy. Hot on the heels of a brace of X-PRESS 2 by DETLEF and TUFF CITY KIDS comes a new EP of tech-house fodder from Newcastle fave named ‘Be Sharp Say Nowt’.

FORT ROMEAU is back with another breathtaking release, this time a double A-side on DGTL Records. ‘Untitled DJ MAG has teamed up with the great Doc’N Roll panel takes place at the Rio Cinema in London’s II’ is deep, Film Festival to show a couple of dance muisc- Dalston on Saturday 4th November at 4pm. analogue-driven related fi lms on big screens in the capital this The other fi lm is the phenomenal Raving Iran, Fort Romeau techno month. which shows the consequences of putting on that bubbles Manchester Keeps On Dancing is an ace parties in Tehran and the outlying desert when melodically, while ‘A Familiar Place’ is documentary about the Manchester clubbing you’re raving against the morality police. proggy, emotive and acidic with a dark scene following the arrival of in The stars of the fi lm, Blade and Beard, will industrial vibe. the city in the 1980s. Shot in a fi lm noir style, it be chatting live from Switzerland after the features testimonies from the likes of Laurent screening via satellite along with acclaimed DOC DANEEKA Garnier (who spent some time DJing at the Iran-born DJ Darius Syrossian and others tbc. has at last Haçienda in the late ‘80s), Todd Terry, Seth Catch this fi lm and discussion on Wednesday delivered his debut Troxler, Andrew Weatherall, Marshall Jefferson 15th November at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton at LP (‘WALK.MAN’) and , as well as Manchester stalwarts 8.30pm. to Ten Thousand such as Dave Haslam and Luke Unabomber. Other fi lms being shown in the Doc’N Roll Yen following a Manc-affi liated legends Greg Wilson, Mike festival include docs about Can and Tangerine recent EP series. Pickering, Justin Robertson and Warehouse Dream, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald, A ‘mixtape of beats cut & pasted Project resident Matthew Krysko also feature in grunge band L7 and the doom metal scene. Sign Doc Daneeka the fi lm, and will be present on the night for a up to Doc’N Roll’s mailing list by November 1st for pleasure’, Q&A panel that follows the screening, alongside to be in with a chance of winning one of two apparently, and it’s director Javi Senz. pairs of tickets to Raving Iran or Manchester full of classy and chunky house excellence. The world premiere of the fi lm and subsequent Keeps On Dancing. docnrollfestival.com Samurai Music welcomes back regular face OFFICE PLAYLIST LIVE STREAMS HOMEMADE WEAPONS (for PBR STREETGANG the fi rst time Late Night Party Line since last year’s Skint Records ‘Negative ’ LP) with four heavy-hitting VOLTAGE Homemade Weapons tracks on the Mood Swings COMING SOON ‘Heiress’ EP. Metalheadz Platinum ANDREA OLIVA Newcastle party, LIVE FROM #DJMAGHQ 3RD NOV DJMAG.COM/HQ Jaunt, marks 10 AMP FIDDLER years in 2017, and Amp Dog Knights this month drops Mahogoni Music a triple release to celebrate, named ‘Sea’, ‘Land’ and MARCUS INTALEX & SPIRIT ‘Air’ the EPs bring Untitled MCR / Acid Monday Inneractive Music together the likes of ARTEFAKT, CATCH UP AWOL, LUKE HESS, DJ SLING GREEN VELVET and honcho’s The Secret LIVE FROM GROOVECRUISE LA BLACKHALL & Blackhall & Bookless Born Free Records WATCH NOW AT YOUTUBE.COM/DJMAGTV BOOKLESS.

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DJ575.CU-CU1.indd 17 16/10/2017 16:25 COMIN’ UP HYPE CHARTS This month’s biggest tracks, as determined by live sales data analysis from bptoptracker.com

HOUSE TECHNO

01. S'Express 01. M.A.N.D.Y. vs. 01. Red Axes Theme From S'Express (Detlef ) Body Language (Danniel Selfmade Dub Mix) Kalacol feat. Yuli Vainshtein Hot Creations Get Physical Music Life And Death 02. Tim Engelhardt 02. Maetrik 02. Red Axes Reality Ninex 7-c Round Fryhide Clash Lion Life And Death 03. Mark Jenkyns, Mizbee 03. Maetrik 03. Johannes Albert Sirens feat. Mizbee Cortex 11-b Giovanni Frizzante Hottrax Clash Lion Frank Music 04. Amine Edge & DANCE, Blaze 04. John Tejada 04. Theo Kottis Lovelee Dae Aisling Misunderstood (Lauer Remix) Defected Kompakt Moda Black 05. YokoO, Retza 05. , Audion, Tiga vs Audion 05. Tensnake Euneirophrenia Stabbed In The Back (ANNA Remix) Hello? All Day I Dream Turbo Recordings True Romance Recs 06. Billy Kenny 06. Sebastian Mullaert 06. Benjamin Froehlich The Hood Girl Samunnati (The Vocal Expression) Drums From Memory Relief Records Default Position Permanent Vacation 07. Jamie Jones 07. Len Faki 07. Lindstrøm Melodic Phase My Black Sheep (Jimmy Edgar & Truncate Remix) Tensions Circus Recordings Figure Feedelity Recordings 08. Eli Brown 08. Arjun Vagale, Juliet Fox 08. NoBass NoFun Hysteria Radiate(feat. Juliet Fox) Funky Man Raven Repopulate Mars Odd Recordings Prison Entertainment 09. PAX 09. Len Faki 09. Coco Monad Universe My Black Sheep (Cleric Y Remix) Melchizedek (Roe Deers Remix) Lost Records Figure Nein Records 10. Billy Kenny 10. Frank Kvitta 10. NOZZ Trip Report Speaking Thru Emotions (Coyu Raw Edit) Misfits Relief Records Suara Roam Recordings

BASS EDM TRANCE

01. Benny L 01. , , MC Ambush 01. Aly & Fila, Ferry Tayle Low Blow Hands Up feat. MC Ambush Concorde Metalheadz Platinum Wall Recordings FSOE Fables 02. Virtual Riot 02. Pauls feat. Moses York 02. Warriors, S&L Degenerates Make Your Mind Up ( & NEW_ID Remode) Dana feat. S&L Disciple Round Table Axtone Records Who's Afraid Of 138?! 03. Ivory, Syndicate 03. Yotto 03. Circuit Breakers 93 Style feat. Virus Syndicate North Freaky Disciple Round Table Anjunadeep Zero One Music 04. Current Value 04. Yotto 04. Outsiders, Hypnocoustics Eager Fight (A.M.C Remix) Isolation Earthshine Blackout Music NL Anjunadeep Sacred Technology 05. BassBrothers 05. Thomas Feelman, Teamworx, STV 05. David Forbes, Richard Lowe Tuff Tuna Never Stop Loved No More Playaz Size Records Grotesque 06. Ed:It 06. Henry Fong 06. Talla 2xlc, Indecent Noise Nevermind It Bubblin Anthem The Darkside feat. Hypetraxx Shogun Audio Spinnin Records Outburst Records 07. 12th Planet, Phaseone, Barely Alive 07. Einmusik 07. Alpha 9 Send It Serenade Lily Disciple Round Table Einmusika Recordings Flashover Recordings 08. Murda 08. John Christian 08. Humanoids, 3 Of Life Ball Licker Back To The Oldskool Drama Queed Disciple Round Table Musical Freedom HOMmega Productions 09. BAR9, Myro 09. Dirtcaps, Reebs 09. Electro Sun Take Me Up (Tantrum Desire Remix) Let's Get Wasted Cotton Candy Disciple Recordings KLASH Bounce Recordings 10. Mr. Frenkie 10. Richie Loop, Mr.Black, 22Bullets 10. Bjorn Akesson Bass Symptom Higher feat. Richie Loop Circles Blackout Music NL Revealed Recordings FSOE

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Takuya Matsumoto ‘(Some Lost) Time’ BM

TOKYO’S Takuya Matsumoto makes beautiful, decorative house music — no two ways about it. Supported by and picked up in the past by R&S spin-off Meda Fury, he’s by no means short of industry supporters because of it. Wistful, raw with emotion and artfully textured, ‘Time’ bears all the hallmarks of Matsumoto’s primitive yet dainty approach to production. Built of lumbering chords that swing fl accidly, it fl utters and unfurls — forgive the cliché — like a cascade of animated origami ornaments. Rudimentary in

its parts and with reedy synths, it’s imbued with pastoral STONE-COLD KILLER nostalgia, and humanity shines through Matsumoto’s machines. A2 ‘Wrap’ is equally enthralling, an absorbing array of deep, steely reverberated pads and digital bleep fl urries, while ‘Springsdub’ loops a heartfelt vocal round over a stuttering four-four in typical style (check ‘NY NY’ for reference). As a bonus there’s a slightly beefed up, elongated and wound-up edit of the Japanese maestro’s Gallic accordion classic ‘Jump Rope Music’. Perhaps a little downtempo for most dancefl oor sets, there’s a Balearic — albeit darker and more urban — wonder to Matsumoto’s masterpiece EP for BM. So where and when is the , please!?

Denis Sulta ‘Sulta Selects 2’ Ténèbre ‘Territory III’ EP Sulta Selects WNCL Recordings

AFTER the rampant success of the fi rst ‘Sulta FRENCH-BORN but based in , Ténèbre Selects’ (‘Nein Fortiate’), Glasgow’s latest originally tickled our fancy back in 2014, house darling Denis Sulta returns with with a slew of coarse, self-released techno another trademark banger. ‘Our World (With slammers… before promptly falling off the A Boy On Its Shoulders)’ takes that twisted, radar entirely. Now he’s returned with four synthetic, spectral signature Sultra hook and lays it over Afro chanting, tracks, and it couldn’t be a more welcome rich chords, reedy airs and a thundering four-four (not forgetting return. Clearly a student of the Randomer school of broken bass bangers, a hooj trance hook!). Derivative of his previous two instant classics, sure, ‘Territory III’ is all gully low-end and whiplash percussion (and a splash but it’s still his most impressive work yet. of breaks too!), with all the energy of Pickle Rick on a rampage. Oosh!

Joe ‘Tail Lift’ / ‘MPH’ Austin Ato ‘Song For Mr Lewis’ Hessle Audio Phonica White

OH, JOE. Where have you been? Why — after OBAN’S Austin Ato follows up his giving us the likes of ‘Claptrap’ and ‘Punters Futureboogie release with a sublime slab of Step Out’ — did you leave? What did we do? joyous for Phonica White. ‘Song Actually, we don’t care, because you’re back For Mr Lewis’, featuring spoken word from now. That out of the way, ‘Tail Lift’ is laidback, black civil rights campaigner Representative club samba — tropical vibes aplenty via maracas, shakers, whistles John Lewis, is reinforced with strong live drums, crisp cowbells, bongos, and the like, plus those classic off-kilter Joe keys. ‘MPH’, meanwhile, chimes, epic strings and a beautifully warm, wholesome bassline. A dub reverses the formula — stripped-back, with anticipation created by rapid version roughs it up, while ‘Morning’ is aqua deep, with a steely oscillations. Wacky and wonderful. twist, big bulbous wiggle and a wigged-out jazz organ. Bless!

Mr. G ‘Unreleased Gemz Pt2’ Kid Lib ‘Blue Dreamers’ / ‘That Special Phoenix G Way’ Foxy Jangle THE UK techno/house legend returns to his Phoenix G imprint with previously unreleased ALONG with having the best name ever, Foxy cuts. ‘Kick It’ is classic G; moody house with Jangle is the new offshoot from Welfare and a cavernous bass drum, chunky hi-hats, Rob DC’s Rua Sound label. First up to bat is naughty vocal snippet and a sinister hook, Sheffi eld’s Kid Lib, boss of Green Bay Wax and while ‘Intro’, also slamming, takes it back to 1990 with Italo-house one of ’s brightest new stars. Here’s why: ‘Blue Dreamers’ chords. ‘Practice’ is more minimal, built on a deep funky bass groove, matches booming bass with bursts of semi-automatic snare, while ‘That fi zzing cymbals and a hypnotic submarine bleep, and ‘Rex One Saturday Special Way’ adds in old school vox to boot. It’s nostalgia done tastefully; Night’ is mind-bending Motor City soul. G’s devil is always in the detail. comforting but with an edge. And vinyl-only, so best snap it up quick!

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DJ575.CU-Killers.indd 19 16/10/2017 16:18 Untitled-1 1 13/10/2017 16:36 300614 Technics Turntables WOS Ad_DJ MAG_210x297.indd 1 28/09/2017 11:47 COMIN’ UP HOT SEAT We throw a few curveball questions the way of... Jori Hulkkonen Forever enamoured by the ‘80s advent of new music technology, in the form of synthesisers and samplers, and the pioneering acts who used these to create futuristic sounds, Finland’s Jori Hulkkonen has spent his career adding this influence to the later templates of house and techno. Along the way he’s supported , worked with personal heroes including John Foxx and the Pet Shop Boys’ Chris Lowe, produced Villa Nah, and formed a long-standing relationship with Tiga, which started with massive electroclash anthem ‘Sunglasses At Night’ at the start of the century. The arrival of his tenth album, ‘Don’t Believe In Happiness’, landing on My Favorite Robot on 24th November, welcomes his most personal work yet. With Jori singing across the 13 tracks, it’s a pointed and richly-produced look at the current state of the world reflected through his dark, wry personality. We checked in for a chat...

Can you explain the billing ‘Jori Hulkkonen performs a 5hrs 30mins long live remix of Joe Jackson’s ‘Steppin’ Out’’? “I don’t know if I can! I had a discussion with a few friends, and the result was that the best song in the world ever is ‘Steppin’ Out’ by Joe Jackson. It also has the perfect tempo, it’s 160bpm so it’s great for running. A few years ago I made a 45-minute version for jogging. Then I wondered how long you could stretch a song without it becoming boring for the performer and the audience, just taking all the little elements and trying to find new ways to interpret them. “Basically, I had all the sequences running on a lot of gear and there was lots of live improvisation on these themes. The first couple of hours were ambient, a bassline sequence like ‘70s/’80s , then the beat came in and it became electro. It was a very interesting ISOESKELI Pic: NOORA experience. I’d say it was a bit more of an avant- garde performance, rather than a regular remix.” moments, but achieving stability, I don’t believe to do an album based on those. Giving it a few that anymore. When you reach a certain age, at exact years sounds a bit more science fiction, a Why don’t you believe in happiness? least for me, you become cynical. You realise how bit more dark humour.” “When I came up with the song, I thought it the world works and where things are heading.” was just a very powerful title. It grew on me to It’s quite a switch from re-recording an ‘80s hit use it as a theme for the album. There are lots On that note, one of the titles is ‘Water Wars about wearing sunglasses at night... of political and ecological themes on there. 2021-2027’! Who wins? “It’s funny, I’ve done so many records and albums This was the first time I tried to make an album “I don’t even know who’s going to be there. and it’s that one cover version that still sticks which has a bit of an edge with lyrics, rather Everybody knows it’s going to start happening. with me. It’s good to have that kind of stuff in than doing ‘hard breaks and good times on the There are lots of wars over resources happening your history.” dancefloor’ kind of music! I don’t really believe now. One of my friends said it’s optimistic that you can achieve happiness in a sense. You can be it’s only going to start in 2021! Definitely there Did you ever wear your sunglasses at night? happy and you can have fun, you can have these will be a lot of big political changes and I wanted “No! It’s cheesy.”

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PETER VAN HOESEN FROM: BELGIUM

SOUNDS LIKE: DONATO DOZZY, MIKE DEHNERT, SVEN WEISEMAN

THREE TUNES: ‘P2ME’, ‘BREACH’, ‘SEVENTY SECRETS’

WHERE NEXT: SLAUGHTERHOUSE, STUTTGART, OCTOBER 28TH

“THE ONLY negative would be a general lack of time to chill out a bit more,” says Peter van Hoesen when asked about his summer. That’s not a surprise, because the man who grew up around EBM and new beat in ‘80s Antwerp is busier than ever, more than 10 years into his career. These days, he has many different projects on the go, from solo productions to collaborative work as Sendai, live shows to running his Time To Express label. What characterises his sparsely evocative techno is a mastery of sound design and a focus on long-form, hypnotic grooves. Most of it is made on a modular system that offers infinite possibilities and “really is one of the best things to happen in my musical life in recent years. It is an endless source of inspiration”.

Right now, Peter’s output is strongly connected “to a state of trance or transcendence. Dancing means leaving one reality behind and stepping into another. From this perspective, I try to build a musical landscape which helps the listener get into that other reality.” He has done so recently via ‘Stealth’, a compilation on his label that featured his own tracks as well as those by Voices From The Lake and Wata Igarashi. He’s also put out two solo EPs in 2017 that are innovative, experimental techno affairs with deft details and expansive, heady atmospheres. A new one is on the way to mark the 30th release on the label and it is “a bit of a special one”, with two tracks quite removed from standard four-four techno. “I have experimented with and faster tempos, and that was a lot of fun,” he says, before adding that all releases on his label are “tightly curated” and are currently focused on more experimental techno.

Next to working with others such as Yves de May because “it’s very valuable to give up a bit of your own ego” and “interesting and enriching to be able to let go of certain issues and trust someone else’s judgement above yours”, Peter has also been a partner in vintage synth studio Handwerk Audio in ’s Kreuzberg. As such, he is a real gear-head who often helps others finalise and master their tracks and enjoys the chance it offers to “step outside your usual zone”. The rest of the year will see more of this, the re-start of his residency at Brussels’ Technoon, and continued preparations for the 10th anniversary of the label in 2018. “Music is such an endless universe, there is always something new to study and be fascinated about. To be the endless student, I guess that is a constant priority and goal.” KRISTAN J CARYL

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TRU THOUGHTS Q&A ROB LUIS How and when did Tru Thoughts come about? “The first release was in 1999 and came about because I had been DJing and running club- FRESH from celebrating adulthood with a big for nu-soul, leftfield , bass and hip- nights for a while and wanted to push the music one-eight birthday bash last month at Camden’s hop, as well as exploring soundsystem culture and artists I liked out there to a wider audience.” Roundhouse with a massive line-up of family alongside the international sounds of Latin disco friends — Quantic, Hot 8 Brass Band, Alice and Afrobeat. Despite casting a wide net, the Tru Who’s involved? Russell, Rodney P and lots more — Tru Thoughts Thoughts staple has crafted a carefully defined “I am the A&R and co-own the label with Paul looks forward in 2017, having achieved an remit, hinged on prime cuts and a left-of-centre Jonas. We have a great team in and in astonishing amount during its lifetime. approach to quality music inflected with soul. , who are vital to what we do too.” Set up in Brighton by Robert Luis and Paul Even after 18 years of sterling hard graft, Tru Jonas in 1999, the label has carved out a niche Thoughts is only getting better and better. What does it sound like? “We are very eclectic. I guess a lot of labels would say that, but good music made with feeling might GIMME 5 be the best way to describe it.”

Who’s releasing on it? “Quantic on his own is always flipping styles. We have from Flowdan, beats from Werkha, soul from Moonchild and Alice Russell, jazz from Nostalgia 77, tropical from Lakuta… plus many more genres.”

Bonobo Flowdan Hot 8 Brass Quantic Rodney P Who’s playing it? ‘Terrapin’ ‘Horror Show ‘Furthest ‘Live Up (feat. “Support for recent releases has come from Benji Band “As the first single Style’ ‘Sexual Healing’ Moment’ The Peoples B, Gilles Peterson, Danny Krivit, Sir Spyro, Julie ahead of the release Adenuga and Toddla T.” “A big club track “This track will rock “One of my favourite Army)’ of ’s debut from the first grime Quantic tracks to DJ album ‘Animal Magic’, any club without fail. “I am the biggest album released on Tru We’ve even heard out with. Futuristic London Posse/ Proudest Tru Thoughts moment? this track captured Thoughts. Flowdan is a tropical tech beats. a moment. This was that Rodney P fan, so “There have been a few. The Quantic Soul no compromise artist and Skream have The ‘Mishaps to actually release recorded on an Atari when it comes to Happening’ album Orchestra headlining the main stage at The Big computer and four- been known to drop music from Rodney is Chill is one of them, though.” delivering real grime it in their DJ sets. sold about 30,000 a dream come true. track tape, so should music. He’s recorded copies in a year and I be an inspiration to Before its release I This track has a great an amazing dubplate was getting close to feel was a release that positive message and What’s next for the label? any new artist on of the track for me really helped Quantic good ideas and music harassed by DJs after we released it just “We have a great downtempo/electronic/sung featuring lyrics from a promo copy. They’re on the creative path after the 2011 riots being the key — not his classic ‘Skeng’ and he continues on vocal album being released by Rhi. Rhi has just budgets.” now one of the biggest in . Been produced, arranged, played and sung on all the ‘Jah War’. Very big in touring bands on Tru today.” supported by so many all my DJ sets.” Thoughts.” DJs, and Frankie Boyle tracks. And we have an LP of soulful orchestrated and Idris Elba too.” versions of Dr Dre covers by Sly5thAve, which Dr Dre himself has approved of.”

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from Paris, and had been one-half of played there on occasion). Quite by the prolific “guitar noise” band Blue accident, they’d found themselves a GOLDEN Sabbath Black Fiji. Ollie, Sam and record label. Richard then met vocalist Cassie Ojay TEACHER (“some 16-year-old Glaswegian girl”) at Tracks like the infectious ‘Party People’, Green Door and, as their courses came the cowbell-heavy ‘Rashomon’ and with some free recording sessions bolted the waist-winding ‘Shatter’, not to FROM: on, they used them to try out something mention a hook-up with dub legend GLASGOW, SCOTLAND new. Bringing in Ollie’s brother Laurie, Dennis Bovell, soon found them shoved a drummer who had found himself in together as a band, and touring Europe. SOUNDS LIKE: thrash bands with names like Ultimate London’s influential Soul Jazz also !!!, THE RAPTURE, E.S.G Thrush and Urine Gagarin, a rag-tag tapped them for a release on its Sounds band came together. Got all that? Good. Of The Universe imprint. THREE TUNES: ‘RAVEINSTIGATOR’ “There was never a point where all six of Now their ‘debut’ album ‘No Luscious ‘SHATTER’ us said we wanted to become a band,” Life’ is ready to be unveiled (although ‘PARTY PEOPLE’ says Ollie. “It just became that way.” a two-track C60 cassette album did “The biggest thing that connected it all emerge in 2014, so it’s perhaps is that we were all up for improvising a technically their second). And it’s WE HAVE Glasgow’s cult studio Green lot,” adds Rich. more or less as haphazard as previous Door to thank for Golden Teacher (also recordings. “We almost plan not to make the name of a psychedelic mushroom, The fruits of the angular sessions, albums,” says Rich. Adds Ollie: “Our doubtless entirely coincidental). taking in post-punk, disco, weird tribal process of recording has always been The six-piece met while availing ambience, bleeping 303 acid, dub, not to go into the studio with songs themselves of one of its free, year-long and the vagaries in between written, and then record loads, and mix production courses for unemployed found their way into the hands of loads of versions and edit them, then musicians. Ollie Pitt, Sam Bellacosa and Keith McIvor, aka JD Twitch of Optimo, scrap half of them, and then maybe Richard McMaster had been studying Glasgow’s notorious Sunday club-night come out with a good EP. But this time at Glasgow’s School of Art, while famed for its general wildness and around, it kind of worked.” Charles Lavenac had moved to Glasgow eclecticism (Ultimate Thrush had even BEN ARNOLD

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01.  ‘Rock On’ TAKE TEN “It wasn’t quite the first single I bought (that was Benny Hill), but it was certainly the most important to me. David Essex was my first pop hero. He was beautiful, looked amazing in a white suit and this, produced by War Of The Bill Brewster Worlds’ Jeff Wayne, is still one of the great British pop 45s of all time. He also appeared in one of the great Brit With the release of ‘Bill Brewster Presents Tribal Rites’ pop-pathos movies of the 1970s, That’ll Be The Day.” this month, a musical autobiography compilation on 02. Rodger Collins ‘Sexy Sugar Plum’ Eskimo Recordings, we asked the ‘’ man “I got introduced to Northern soul by a gay friend Ross, to run through some of his most important tracks from who dragged me down to London just to buy a pair of leather-soled shoes from Ravels in Oxford Street. He also his 46-year-strong record collection... took me to my first all-nighter at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, where this record was one of the anthems of the day.”

03. The Damned ‘New Rose’ “I was 17 when this was released in late 1976. The first British punk single. Blew my head right off. I moved down to London within six months. Who needs amphetamine sulphate when you have Rat Scabies on drums?”

04. The Normal ‘Warm Leatherette’ “I remember buying this from the old Rough Trade in Notting Hill after John Peel played it. The first release on Mute. It still sounds like a completely demented record nearly 40 years later. Many years later, I got to hang out and interview its maker and the founder of Mute, Daniel Miller, one of my heroes.”

05. A Certain Ratio ‘Shack Up’ “This scratchy cover version of the Banbarra classic was my route into funky black music. I tracked down the original, then set out looking for other things ACR had name-checked in interviews like Cameo and Spunk. Life was never the same after this.”

06. J. Walter Negro & The Loose Joints ‘Shoot The Pump’ “Probably the archetypical Not Yoik record of the early 1980s, it mixed rock, , disco and rap into one anarchic fusion. Despite recording an (unreleased) album, this was their only release. It was massive in London at the time and I still carry it with me for special occasions.”

07. Dr John ‘Jet Set’ “This was originally released on Arthur Baker’s Streetwise label and produced by one of hip-hop’s early producer heroes Duke Bootee (aka Ed Fletcher). I bought it after reading an enthusiastic review by Danny Baker in the NME, and it still kills me every time I hear it. One of my favourite electronic records, and one I still play out.”

08. No Smoke ‘Koro Koro’ “It was this style of tribal business that really won me J, author, journalist, label owner and party promoter, Bill Brewster is one of over to house and, amazingly, it was British: Dark, deep dance music’s dedicated tastemakers. He even used to be a chef. and funky. It predated the work of ’s Murk, who At the helm of London’s Low Life party and online fanzine DJ History, he took this sound and made it their own. Warriors Dance, amassed a cult-like following within the UK disco scene during the ‘00s, while on which this was released, was arguably the first great Dhis books alongside Frank Broughton, How To DJ (Properly) and Last Night A DJ Saved UK dance label of the era.” My Life, offer unique, generation-defining commentaries on the cultural bedrocks of our scene. 09. Mood II Swing ‘All Night Long’ His three contributions to the Late Night Tales series demonstrated not only his eclectic “MIIS are my favourite house producers and they made and encyclopedic knowledge of music, but also his expert ability to select and programme so many killer records in a relatively short space of time. a DJ set; and now, after four decades building up his repertoire, he’s set to release ‘Bill I always felt this got overlooked because it was on the Brewster Presents Tribal Rites’, a musical autobiography in the form of a three-part B-side of the equally ace ‘Do It Your Way’ but it’s super- compilation on Eskimo Recordings — cataloguing ‘Post-Punk’, ‘Balearic’ and ‘House’. soulful and I never tire of hearing it. When I was running “I’ve been collecting records for 46 years and seriously for 40 years,” Bill tells DJ Mag. “I Twisted UK, I tried to license this for UK release, but the wanted to put an album together that reflected all the different periods, genres, tempos boys had lost the original parts for it.” and styles I’ve passed through over those years, while also doing something that is also amazingly entertaining without removing any items of clothing.” 10. LCD Soundsystem ‘Losing My Edge’ Featuring rare, wigged-out funky jams in ‘Part One’, jazzy Balearic gems for ‘Part Two’ and “Still remember my friend handing me this in Vinyl house classics from the likes of Chicken Lips and Larry Heard with ‘Part Three’, as you’d Junkies and saying, ‘You’ve gotta check this out!’ It’s a expect, it’s a real education and it’s all there just waiting to be mined. So we asked Bill to distillation of all of the things I’ve loved in music — from pick some of his most formative tracks (that don’t appear on the compilation)... punk to house — it’s got it all, and it had me digging back into my old records for those post-punk sounds again.”

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SOUNDS LIKE: ALUNAGEORGE, DISCLOSURE, BLONDE

THREE TUNES: ‘S.O.S’, ‘LIGHT ME UP’, ‘FIRE WITH FIRE’

“DON’T make me fight fire with fire” is the incandescent lead hook of Laura Bettison aka FEMME’s 2-step-inspired single of the summer. Equipped with a tongue-in- cheek video that has nearly hit one million views, it’s brought the heat to the Midlands-born artist’s already smoking status. Annie Mac dubbed her a “one woman powerhouse” as the vocalist, producer, writer and performer of her own brand of alternative pop music. Growing up in a small village outside of Rugby, the music scene wasn’t exactly at Laura’s doorstep; to catch live bands it would take a venture into Birmingham or Coventry. “I spent a lot of my late teens playing at open mic nights around those cities, getting dropped off by my parents with my stage piano in the boot. I wasn’t really aware of DJ culture or an scene growing up. I was led to believe the only route to a career in music was either playing in a famous band or going to the BRIT School and becoming a pop star. It wasn’t until I moved to London at 18 that my world got a lot bigger and I realised there was a path for me as a producer/writer and performer in electronic music,” she tells DJ Mag. She relocated to the Big Smoke to study music at Goldsmith’s University; a decent introduction to city life and soon enough was performing in venues like The Old Queen’s Head. It was here that she met Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich who took a shine to her work and vice versa, and eventually they formed the supergroup Ultraísta with Atoms For Peace drummer Joey Waronker. Their first LP in 2012 gained endless praise and it firmly set FEMME’s all-round singing, songwriting and production skills into the limelight. In 2016, she released her first solo album ‘Debutante’; a fine slice of what she describes as retro-future pop. Her work is inspired by icons of the past and the present from to Matthew Herbert, from Bowie to Bjork. On stage nothing can knock Laura’s confidence; her first tour was supporting Charli XCX in the USA. “Honestly, having done all manner of shit and sensational gigs since the age of 16 there’s not much that could shake my confidence at this point. However, supporting Charli on that tour was my first experience of playing to sold-out rooms of American teenagers and it was absolutely insane. They screamed from the moment you set foot on stage to the final note of the last song, and that kind of rush is completely addictive,” she reminisces. She has a new single in the pipeline, ‘Angel’, that experiments with vocal layers and textures, and she’s spent the last six months working on new material for her next album that challenges the traditional song format. She’s a very decent DJ too, earlier this year boxing off the #VIPENGUIN DJ competition, and winning a set at the 20,000-capacity festival Sundown. About to embark on a UK live tour with her biggest headline show to date in London this December, her long list of achievements to date is only the beginning. ANNA WALL

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