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Steve Lawler Interview

Steve Lawler

Tales of the tourbus from Steve Lawler and friends as they take their 'mobile disco' on the road.

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Matthew Herbert Interview

Matthew Herbert

The man whose samples force home a political point gives us a unique insight into his studio techniques.

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Evil Nine Interview

Evil Nine

Brighton breaksters Evil Nine tell all about the influence of the undead on their latest album.

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Daedelus Interview

Daedelus

Alfred Darlington, AKA Daedelus, talks about embracing dance music on his finest album to date.

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Anthony Pappa Interview

Anthony Pappa

Tips, tricks and studio secrets are revealed by Aussie DJ and producer, Anthony Pappa.

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Ninja Tune

Ninja Tune

As the leftfield label celebrates its 18th year, a chat with the men that make Ninja Tune tick.

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Robert Owens

Robert Owens

The man with the most distinctive voice in house music, Robert Owens, talks about his new album.

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Robyn

Robyn

Chart-topping Swede, Robyn, talks about her second bite of the pop cherry.

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Shlomi Aber

Shlomi Aber

The privilege of releasing Renaissance's first ever artist album falls to Israel's Shlomi Aber.

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FlyKKiller

FlyKKiller

Creating the music they want to with no constraints, FlyKKiller let us into their alien world.

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King Roc

King Roc interview

Breaking new ground and rewriting the industry rulebook, King Roc shares his vision.

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Little Dragon

Little Dragon interview

Sweden's Little Dragon have that familiar yet fresh feel down to a fine art on their quirk-laced debut.

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The Tuss news article

Load Of Old Tuss

Is it the Aphex Twin? Or a bloke called Brian? We talk to Rephlex owner Grant Wilson-Claridge to clear up the Tuss fuss.

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EXTRAS: Full interview transcript

Chris Fortier

Chris Fortier interview

Chris Fortier is blowing all prog pre-conceptions out of the water with his long-awaited debut album.

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Junior Boys

Junior Boys interview

Placing style over substance holds little interest for Canadian duo Junior Boys.

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Echaskech

Echaskech interview

Echaskech reveal their aim to get spines tingling and return some melodic meat back to the bones of electronic music.

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Meat Katie review

Spin Out/Lot 49 feat. Meat Katie

Crowd-pleasing breaks don Meat Katie launches his new Lot 49 compilation down at Herbal.

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Snowbombing review

Snowbombing 2007

Piste, beats and breaks with James Zabiela, Kid Carpet, Rob da Bank et al.

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Ulrich Schnauss

Ulrich Schnauss interview

German composer Ulrich Schnauss talks about his new album and reveals what inspires him creatively to produce his rich, immersive sound.

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Pioneers Of Live Dance Feature (cover: iDJ Feb 2007)

Pioneers Of Live Dance feature

The first seeds of live dance music were sown well over 30 years ago, long before the days of PAs in muddy fields and warehouses, let alone full-blown worldwide stadium tours. Grab your drink and head for the dancefloor as iDJ pays tribute to the pioneers of live dance.

Includes interviews with Kraftwerk, The Prodigy, Moby, Orbital, Underworld, The Orb and Altern 8.

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!!! (chk chk chk)

!!! interview

US punk funkers !!! (chk chk chk) talk about their new album, bandwagon-jumping and making people cry.

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Klaxons

Klaxons interview

New rave has been the sound of 2006, or so certain sections of the music press would have us believe. The figureheads of this glowstick-waving, guitar-toting movement are dance-influenced indie trio Klaxons.

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About Ian Roullier

Ian Roullier (2008)

I am a freelance music journalist. I have written for a variety of magazines and websites including the BBC, Mixmag, DJ, Clash, Knowledge, SoundsXP and was once upon a time Contributing Editor at musicOMH.com.

I have also written for Logo and Chaat magazines and eJay and worked for the Watford Observer and North London Newspapers.

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