Knowledge interview from earlier in the year about the hardcore continuum with me plus Martin 'Blackdown' Clark, Gabriel 'Heatwave' Myddleton and MC Sway

RENEGADE ACADEMIA: THE Cybernetic Culture Research Unit director's cut of unpublished feature for Lingua Franca, 1999; short remix appeared in Springerin, 2000 by Simon Reynolds Smack in the middle of the United Kingdom, Leamington Spa is like a...

SADIE PLANT and "WRITING ON DRUGS" Feed, 2000 by Simon Reynolds Drug theorist Sadie Plant sucks on the long, bendy tubing of a hookah at Kush, a Moroccan-style bar in downtown Manhattan, and exhales a cloud of tobacco smoke. "This is the real thing,...

DFA and LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: label and band profile Groove, 2005 by Simon Reynolds For the last three years, DFA has been on a mission to make New York City live up to its own legend--"to be what it should be," as the label's co-founder James Murphy...

TRICKY's MAXINQUAYE in SPIN'S BEST ALBUMS OF THE NINETIES Spin, 1999 by Simon Reynolds TRICKY, Maxinquaye (Island, 1995) Although all but one of its tracks were recorded in London, Maxinquaye has everything to do with Tricky's home town Bristol, the...