J Hus interview from sometime round 2017…
A rare interview with J Hus, just before the debut album dropped- https://www.theransomnote.com/music/interviews/i-am-the-movement-j-hus-talks/
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Gone To A Rave #13: Acid Techno
Easily, and bizarrely, the most popular piece I have ever written. Read it over on Ransom Note to enjoy the comment thread packed with misty eyed ravers (and a few […]
Shifting Dreams : Fracturing England
This piece first appeared on The Ransom Note In 1980 Alvin Toffler wrote ‘The Third Wave’, the second of his seminal works of futurology. The book analysed how societies change […]
Soundcloud & Corporate Culture
In the space of 7 years, the online sharing/ streaming platform Soundcloud has become the premiere place to find and host music – from 2010 to 2013, it sky rocketed […]
England’s Dreaming : The Free Party Monster
This week saw the media, in the grip of a typically slow summer news cycle, offered a tragedy they were powerless to resist – the death of a teenager at […]
Gone to a Rave #1
Ian McQuaid’s Gone To A Rave* *In his bedroom For the last 5 years I've been meaning to archive my bloated, ever growing collection of rave records, only to be […]
Valentine Dyall – A Lost Master
Prior to 1978 the BBC had no policy for archiving material. Tapes and tapes of promethean TV and radio were wiped with impunity. I cant help but be fascinated by […]
England’s Dreaming – Filming the Occult
Theres no history, just legends and lies. On this funny little island we tell all sorts of tall tales, and Im going to use this column to tell some of […]