THE BALEARIC BEAT GOES ON
Steve KIW rounds up his personal take on the development of the balearic sound. Part four: New waves, new wavs, new ways, new raves. Despite house and hip-hop…
MURMURATION – ERLAND COOPER QUIZZED
“The essence of Orkney’s magic are the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light” George Mackay Brown, 1921-1996 Over the last few years Erland Cooper has…
BUNKER BUZZ CHART AUGUST
These are the 1BTN DJ recommendations for August 2020. Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Roisin Murphy Something More (Skint Records) The Queen of the sultry groove…
5 On It – Women Claiming Their Space In The Music World
1BTN’S Jo Dressler tells the story of women making their mark in contemporary music, from Muslim metal to Filipino dancehall. INDONESIA All female, Muslim metal band (now there’s a few…
Glyn Biggabush Interview
As one half of Brum based duo Original Rockers (later Rockers Hi-Fi) Glyn ‘Bigga’ Bush created the 90s progressive-house-dub classic Push Push, put out four great albums, contributed a cut…
Still Searching for the Balearic Beat
In this instalment of Steve KIW’s story of the Balearic Beat the establishment takes fright, a lot of blissed out ravers jump in coaches and record collections begin to look…
Inkswel & Colonel Red – Benjimans Ghost Vol. 1
Never leaning on the notion of a mould or convention, Colonel Red Is a phenomenon in the underground soul circuit, blending the segways between Rnb, Broken Beat, Hip Hop and…
BUNKER BUZZ CHART JULY
1BTN DJ selections for the month of July; all new releases or re-issues. Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Sault Untitled (Black Is) (Forever Living Originals) The…
THE SEARCH FOR THE BALEARIC BEAT
Our DJs use the word Balearic with abandon. So often in fact that it came as no surprise when a listener asked: Hola 1BTN, What, exactly, is ‘Balearic’? Among…
LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE – SET FOR LOVE!
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life is a charitable foundation creating fundraising initiatives for the electronic music industry & beyond in support of children in crisis. Founded in January…
JAZZ IS DEAD. ADRIAN YOUNGE & ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD IN CONVERSATION
How’s lockdown life on the west coast Adrian? Same as it is over there, boring! *laughs* I guess music is keeping you running through though, right? I guess so, trying…
BUNKER BUZZ CHART JUNE
These are the 1BTN DJ recommendations for new music and reissues going into June 2020. There is a Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. L-Side & MC…
LUKE UNABOMBER INTERVIEW
A few weeks back 1BTN’s Joel Essex caught up with the legendary DJ, promoter, and everyone’s favourite lockdown instagrammer, Luke ‘Unabomber’ Cowdrey for a good old natter. Here’s the conversation that…
LABEL FOCUS – ROOTS GARDEN
Roots Garden is a Brighton institution. A legendary midweek club night that ran for 14 years and span off a record label that has released over 150 tracks – including…
BRIGHTON LOCKDOWN CREATIONS
Well, these are tough times for the arts. Tough for professional creators, venues, promoters and everyone connected with the arts, financially at least. But the bright side of isolation and…
Producers Choice: Atjazz on The RAH Band
How you doing, Martin? I’m very well thank you very much thanks for having me on My Pleasure. Whereabouts in the world are you right now? I’m…
MALIAN MUSIC ON FILM – LOCKDOWN VIEWING PART 1
There is no shortage of films about music from Mali. To accompany a piece about the MUSIC OF MALI, 1BTN DJs Jo Dressler and Ian Lawton offer some suggestions for…
THE MUSIC OF MALI
Mali, the landlocked country of West Africa has a rich, long-lived and deeply embedded musical tradition and has given us numerous musical treasures, a few of which I would like…
FLORIAN SCHNEIDER OBITUARY
Steve KIW pays tribute to Florian Schneider and the mighty Kraftwerk It is impossible to overstate the importance of Kraftwerk. Consequently it’s pretty much impossible to describe the legacy…
BUNKER BUZZ CHART MAY
Here are the big quarantine tunes from the 1BTN massive going into the month of May 2020. Incomplete Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Tornado Wallace Mundane…
5 GREAT TONY ALLEN RELEASES FROM THE LAST 5 YEARS
Legendary drummer Tony Allen died on 30 April 2020 aged 79. He was furiously creative and prolific until the end. 1BTN pays tribute to the great man by shining a…
GUILTY PLEASURES
Guilty musical pleasures – What are they? Why are they? And what’s to be guilty about!? Jo Dressler goes in search of the uncool … Being British comes hand…
We pay tribute to Detroit electronic music icon, Mike Huckaby.
It is with deep sadness that we learn today of the death of another great of the electronic music scene. Detroit music icon Mike Huckaby passed away on Friday April…
5 On It – Five Revolutionary Female MCs
Most hip-hop fans know the story of DJ Kool Herc’s legendary back-to-school jam that contributed to the birth of a musical revolution in the West Bronx, New York City in…
Bunker Buzz Chart April
Some quarantine listening for you. Here are the April recommendations for life under lockdown from our 1BTN DJs. Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Murge Can’t Hurt…
5 On It – J-Felix on 80s boogie and funk
J-Felix’s brilliant sophomore album Whole Again Hooligan is a melting pot of musical influences. 1BTN Boogie head Kirollus Elyas asked him to tell us how he became a Boogie and…
5 On It – Five of the Best Underground Music Docs
The last ten years has seen an explosion of music documentaries – bigger budget docs like Amy, Chasing the Train or 20 Feet From Stardom, but also a whole slew…
Bunker Buzz Chart March 2020
These are the albums and tracks that are big in the 1BTN Bunker this month! There is an incomplete version of this chart as a Spotify playlist (Link at bottom…
Andrew Weatherall Obituary
Legend, pioneer and musical hero to so many of us at 1BTN, Andrew Weatherall passed away on February 17, 2020. Whether you know him from his work with Primal…
The Genius of Talk Talk
Mark Holis’ band Talk Talk transcended their synth-pop (and punk!) roots to become, retrospectively, one of the most admired bands to have recorded in the 20th century. The band recorded…
Kokoroko Interview
Jim Lister spoke to Kokoroko’s Onome Edgeworth (Percussion), Ayo Salawu (Drums) and Tobi Adenaike (Guitar) on his 1BTN show before their February gig at Concorde 2 in Brighton. Photo: Nina…
David Mancuso
Fifty years ago David Mancuso threw the first of his legendary Loft parties. Twenty years ago Nuphonic released two fantastic Mancuso compilations (The Loft 1999 and The Loft – Volume Two…
Bunker Buzz Chart February 2020
The biggest new tunes and reissues in the 1BTN bunker as we enter February 2020 with accompanying Spotify playlist (go to the bottom of the page for the link). …
5 On It – Five Bitchin’ Queer House Cuts by Sophie Paul
Step onto a dancefloor in a mainstream club today and you’d be forgiven for thinking that dance music is dominated by straight, male, so-called ‘EDM’ culture. House music is going…
Anna Meredith Interview
1BTN spoke to the maverick Scottish composer ahead of her UK tour. You’re playing Brighton on the 10th of February, the last date of your uk tour. Are you…
Sonar Kollektiv: Celebrating 21 Years! Words With Jurgen Von Knoblauch
Hey, Jurgen! How you doing? Good. Good to talk to you! You too. Where are you in the world are you right now? I’m on the East Coast, in Savannah,…
ARXX Interview
1BTN’s Black Feather spoke to riotous Brighton two piece ARXX about their new EP fuelled by superfood smoothies and early nights, their origins and their recording process. Photo: Kaleido Shoots …
Música é vida: Daniel Maunick In Conversation with Mickey Duke
How do, Dan? You good? I’m good man thanks for having me on. Pleasure. Where about are you at the moment? I’m up in Scotland, in my little studio i’ve…
5 On It – Eone’s Top 5 Wave Cuts
Though the wave scene has been growing and evolving for some time now, with clear distinctions between different styles, artists and labels, its emergence into the mainstream has become more…
Bunker Buzz Chart November
The biggest tunes buzzing around the 1BTN radio bunker entering November, selected by our DJs. Full playlist and reviews below and Spotify playlist. Cruisic, Slowly Inspector Norse…
ACCA Digital (part of Brighton Digital Festival)
1BTN spoke to Laura Ducceschi, programmer of ACCA Digital which runs from 30 Sep to 18 Oct in partnership with Brighton Digital Festival and features Holly Herndon, Tim Hecker and…
CHRIS CRACKNELL IN CONVERSATION WITH KATE TEMPEST
Kate, How are you? I’m very well. How are you? I’m very well thanks, where are you this morning? I’m in a, kinda, radio, down the line studio in the…
Pete Lawrence Discusses The Campfire Convention And The Little Chill Festival w/ Chewy Beatwell
How you doing, Pete? Very well, thank you. You’re bringing the Little Chill festival to East Sussex in July, as a fund raiser for your new project, which is very…
Sonny Johns AKA The Rail Abandon In Conversation
Hi, Sonny. How are you? Very well, thank you. So you are Leeds born and bred, Sonny? Huddersfield. Just down the road. I’ve travelled around a bit but I’m back…
The Queenie and Wildblood Show with Crazy P
Crazy P’s loopy loved up grooves, seductive soaring vocals, life-affirming festival performances, goosebump generating DJ sets and epic remixes and reworks have soundtracked our terrace days and clubbing nights since…
Detroit Day
1BTN in conjunction with Detroit Tourism and Metro Centre are proud to present, Detroit Day. You know Detroit, right? Famed for it’s legendary auto industry and for it’s music; it’s…
Brazilian legend Ivan Conti In Conversation With Mickey Duke.
Ivan, how you doing? Fine, thank you my friend. Where are you in the World right now? I am in my house in Saquarema, which is about 2 hours from…
Sally Called Adam In Conversation With Mickey Duke
Sal, how’s it going? It’s good, Mickey, It’s good. Everything’s great at the moment, pretty busy and pretty manic. Releasing a record on your own label is pretty hard work…
BUNKER BUZZ CHART MARCH
An amazing amount of killer choonage this month as the 2019 release schedule gets into full swing. Here are the essential cuts at the beginning of March as selected by…
1BTN Records Of The Year
Let’s get straight to it: 2018 has been a bumper year for music. Here on 1BTN we are blessed to have an incredible array of DJs who are only too…
Kamaal Feel The Noise
Kamaal Williams gig review. Words by Joel Essex, photo by Fred Lopez. It’s been just over two years since the seminal release of Black Focus, an album that brought to…
A Scottish tale – Whisky, rain and music
We talk to Gavin Sutherland, AKA Other Lands, from Firecracker Recordings Mac-Talla Nan Creag, about their soon to be released 2nd LP, “The Sorrow of Derdriu”. So Mac-Talla Nan Creag…
5 On It – 5 Crucial Keith Hudson Recordings
Aka ’The Dark Prince of Reggae’ aka ‘The Ghetto Dentist’ (he was qualified apparently), Keith Hudson cut his teeth (sorry) on the Jamaican music scene working for trombone legend Don…
5 On It – 5 Brilliant Broken Beats
For a short, but extremely frenzied few years, either side of the Millennium, the talents, minds and hearts of some of the finest drum and bass, house, jazz, electronic and…
Patrick Robinson talks to the boys at Craigie Knowes
Glaswegian label dons, Craigie Knowes, first made a dent in the UK’s dance music scene back in 2015 with their first annual fundraiser for the charity, War Child. The record…
Alterleo – From Russia With Love
Our man, Dan Storey, wanted to know more behind the lovely music being produced by, Denis Leonovitch AKA Alterleo, a talented sound man out of Moscow. He asked and here…
Life really is beautiful for Vince Watson
We speak to the prolific veteran Scottish producer about his 2 new albums, Via under his own name and a new alias, Quart. You are living in Amsterdam these days…
Hubbabubbaklubb – The dreams the dreamers dream
The Hubbabubbaklubb crew take time off from cruising on their Mopeds to talk about their debut LP. SO TELL ME ABOUT HUBBABUBBAKLUBB – HOW DID YOU ALL MEET? In kindergarten….
130701 – Label Focus
Ian Lawton spoke to Dave Howell of ground breaking FatCat subsidiary 130701. He filled us in about the history of the label, its ups and downs, its second wind, forthcoming…
5 On It – 5 Killer Anadolu Psych Cuts
In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown phenomenon of Anadolu Pop. My book, The Turkish…
Who Is Disco Patrick?
Who is Disco Patrick? A music lover and a record collector and also a vinyl-only DJ who started collecting records in 1978. Where are you based and why there? I…
Fox & His Friends Talks To Woodenhorse Provocateur
WH Provocateur talks to Fox & His Friends on their forthcoming compilation – Socialist Disco: Dancing Behind Yugoslavia’s Velvet Curtain 1977-1987 It seems that virtually every country tried their hands…
Neil Innes Chats With 1BTN
Few artists possess such a varied and impressive CV as Neil Innes. From The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles, Monty Python and The Innes Book of Records, to his…
Italo Disco Cover Art – A Love Story
As a huge Italo-Disco fan, part of the appeal of collecting the records is definitely some of the mad cover art which adorns these cheesy pizza platters. I aim to…
Invisible Inc’s Lost Transmissions LP Review
Various Artists – Lost Transmissions From The Off-World Territories Invisible Inc. have just released this astonishingly diverse palette of styles courtesy of renowned ambient innovator Laraaji, multi-Grammy Award-winning producer and…
Uniting Of Opposites
Within the world of music promotions – and the deluge of files that get sent through the myriad of fibre-optic cables – a beautiful slice of new cosmic-space-jazz entitled Ancient…
The Library Music Film
WH Provocateur speaks to Shawn Lee about the forthcoming The Library Music Film WH: For the uninitiated, can you please explain what ‘library music’ is? SL: Library music is purpose…
Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival
Ian Lawton spoke to promoter Daniel Spicer about Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival which runs throughout October at various venues. What was the original motivation for setting up Brighton Alternative Jazz…
Aretha Franklin
Dan Tester looks back with the greatest of respect on the Queen of Soul’s legacy. Included is also Steve KIW’s tribute; an exceptional and impromptu first hour, taken from his scheduled show in which he lovingly collates her legendary performances… read more
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life!
We recently added ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life foundation’ to our ever-evolving roster of presenters. With host, Dan Storey, along with an assorted array of special guest selectors ‘LNADJ’ will showcase their incredible knowledge of music from across the genres, whilst highlighting the importance of what they are set up to do… read more
Following the rainbow to LGBTQ Pride
1BTN DJ and presenter Kate Wildblood reflects on what LGBTQ Pride means to her on the eve of Brighton Pride 2018. Whether your first or your forty-first, nothing comes close…
Jazz Re:Fest Review
Jazz Re:Freshed’s Jazz Re:Fest, now in its sixth year, has become an important focal point for the UK’s rapidly growing community of young jazz musicians. This year it took a…
What’s Goin’ on w/Richard Norris
We caught up with Richard Norris regarding his new project ‘The Long Now’, which is a collaboration between Richard and Icelandic musician Finnur Bjarnason. Hello Richard, so please tell us,…
Mickey Duke talks to Justin ‘TopRock’ Mckenzie about all things Jazz Re:freshed
Justin, how you doing? Hi, yeh, I’m good. Just busy with some last minute running’s but I’m cool. You & Adam are old school heads of the London clubbing scene,…
Mickey Duke chats to Mildlife lead singer, Kev McDowell
Hey, Kev. Mickey here from 1BTN. How you doing? Awesome, yeh, I’m good. Thanks. Starting at the beginning then, Kev. How long have you guys been performing together as a…
Nat Birchall Interview
Known for a series of albums exploring the cosmic end of jazz on the Pharaoh Sanders/John Coltrane axis, saxophonist Nat Birchall has released an LP of full dread roots reggae…
Defunkt – Thermonuclear Sweat
1BTN’s Ian Lawton traces the genesis of New York, Jazz-Funk band Defunkt and their underrated album ‘Thermonuclear Sweat’ The first time I heard the the term ‘Jazz-Funk’ was in connection…
Sampa the Great Interview
Sampa the Great, the creator of the Great Mix Tape and the Great Mixtape II which is due for release soon, was kind enough to take time off her busy…
Steve Cobby Interview
As one half of Fila Brazillia and then as part of various collaborative projects, and under several solo monikers, Steve Cobby has been a prolific producer of electronic music from…
#metoo – a modern man’s guide
#metoo – a modern man’s guide The #metoo debate has posed some thorny questions for men. What should we do? How can we help? Is it even our responsibility? A…