The life of a true music lover is a divine mixture of beauty and obsession, dedication and impulse; and there are very few who can be fairly categorised as a true music lover more than Thomas Koch, aka DJ T. His list of accolades and contributions to electronic music are irrefutable, indelible and seemingly endless. There’s his editing and publishing work in the periodical world: founding Groove Magazine in 1989 and remaining its publisher and author for 15 years (Groove remains one of the longest running – 20 years and counting – and most respected dance music periodicals in the…

Buraka Som Sistema have always liked throwing curveballs. From their first DJ residencies, where off-the-cuff sets were “pretty much rehearsed live… mixing for people at raves, that was our practice – kinda like shock therapy” to incorporating unusual material into their songs – recording shattering glass, or throwing an orange at the wall and using the sound as a snare. Even their first drum & bass collective, Fusion Lab, had a reputation for mixing things up: “it wasn’t all about drum & bass, it was all about experimenting with crazy beats.” So it was hardly surprising that some years ago,…

Sean Brosnan has compiled the follow up to the highly successful ‘Future Disco’ mix album, set for release on his new label NeedWant in October.

Following the highly successful ‘Future Disco – A Guide to 21st Century Disco’, Sean Brosnan has mixed and compiled ‘The Extended Future Disco Mix’ a unique re-edited, extended and remixed journey of this burgeoning genre, which Mixmag calls “the most exciting production work going on in clubland”.

The second edition picks up where volume one left off. It features the epic pianos of the chart bound Juan MacLean’s ‘Happy House’, an exclusive remix of Mercury…