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    • The evolution of Eastern Electrics

    • Will Paterson

    • 2012-04-19

    • When Will Paterson and Rob Star hosted their first Eastern Electrics August bank holiday weekend party double header in 2008, they had a vision to evolve the brand from a top class clubnight into a full festival. Four years later on Saturday, August 4th they’ll achieve that goal with the first Eastern Electrics Festival on Clapham Common featuring Jamie Jones, Tensnake, Julio Bashmore, Miguel Campbell, Kerri Chandler and more. We caught up with Will to find out more about the origins of Eastern Electrics, this summer’s festival and what the future holds.

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    • Daedelus talks Archimedes and Victoria style

    • Daedelus

    • 2012-04-10

    • Victorian garmented futurist Daedelus returns to London with his beat crunching Monome an steamfunk audiovisual invention Archimedes this Friday at Village Underground. Imagined by Daedelus, created with the expertise of Emmanuel Biard and David Leonard, and premiered at KOKO last year, he’s back with the mechanised wall of moving mirrors: Archimedes 2.0. We got the chance to chat to Daedelus to find out what his influences are and how Archimedes was born.

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    • A conversation with Anchorsong

    • Masaaki Yoshida

    • 2012-03-12

    • Anchorsong – aka Masaaki Yoshida – has become globally recognised for his live shows, which have described as “like watching a painter drawing on a white canvas”, as he creates electronic music completely live using a sampler and keyboard, in front of the audience. While he mainly performs solo, he frequently adds a string quartet to his set up and he’s bringing his show to London’s Cargo on Thursday, March 22nd. I caught up with Masaaki to find out more about his influences, his work and what to look out for in 2012.

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    • Jeremy Williams: Getting Behind the Camera

    • 2012-02-24

    • Photographer Jeremy Williams made the switch from model to the other side of the camera with great success. He’s already had the chance to work with Britain’s Got Talent winner Jai McDowall, the reformed Hanson, singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko and pop act Wynter Gordon. Following a short stint in Australia, Jeremy is now residing in Sheffield where his exhibition Coming Out: Emerging From Adolescence & Other Collections is on display until Saturday, March 3rd at Bank Street Arts. Presented as part of Sheffield’s celebration of LGBT History Month, the images show a personal and usually private reflection of the self. I caught up with Jeremy to find out more.

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    • Sean Brosnan

    • Needwant label boss

    • 2012-02-20

    • Sean Brosnan set up label Needwant to ensure his Future Disco series of compilations would get into the ears of disco lovers, but he never expected to be notching up the release of his fifth edition at the end of February. We caught up with him to find out why he thinks disco is still getting dancefloors moving.

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    • Together WMF interviews: Utah Saints

    • Utah Saints

    • 2011-11-18

    • With just one week until the first Together Winter Music Festival at London’s Alexandra Palace, we talk to another top act about the now sold out event. This week it’s the turn of Utah Saints.

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    • Together WMF interviews: Jeremy Olander

    • Jeremy Olander

    • 2011-11-07

    • London’s Alexandra Palace hosts the first Together Winter Music Festival at the end of the month, and we continue to find out more about the top acts with our third interview: Jeremy Olander. Championed by WMF headliner Eic Prydz as “the next big thing”, Olander has three top two records under his belt. We found out more.

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    • Together WMF interviews: The Japanese Popstars

    • The Japanese Popstars

    • 2011-10-31

    • With the first Together Winter Music Festival touching down at Alexandra Palace in London at the end of November, we continue to find out more about the top acts with our second interview: this time with The Japanese Popstars. The Irish electro trio certainly aren’t Japanese but their pounding sound has won them an army of fans across the globe so they fit the “stars” part of their name at least! We found out what they’ve been up to this year and why they’re looking forward to the first Together WMF.

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    • A Conversation with Coppe'

    • Coppe'

    • 2011-10-23

    • The legendary godmother of Japanese Electronica, Coppe’, a serial collaborator with the likes of Plaid, Red Snapper, The Orb, Kettel, Atom TM and Tipsy, teamed up with the the artists and associates of the UK label Bit-Phalanx, for a charity remix project that spawned an album and a UK tour with shows in Manchester, Brighton, Birmingham and London. While the album saw Bit-Phalanx acts remix her “Yogurt” tune from her 12th release Artificial Insemination, she took a new live show on the road and all proceeds from the collaboration have gone towards the victims of the 2011 Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami. We caught up with Coppe’ twice when she was in London to find out more.

    • Together WMF interviews: John Dahlbäck

    • John Dahlbäck

    • 2011-10-19

    • The first Together Winter Music Festival touches down at Alexandra Palace in London for two nights on Friday November, 25th and Saturday, November 26th. Saturday sees Eric Prydz headline with top names from the house, techno and electro scenes including Vitalic, John Digweed, Pete Tong and Ed Banger’s SebastiAn. Swedish house producer and DJ John Dahlbäck will also be appearing, incorporating pure house through to electro, techno and progressive. We caught up with him to find out what he’s got planned for the Alexandra Palace show.