house/techno playlists
Her Voice : A playlist for International Women’s Day 2021
Although it has it’s beginnings way back in 1911, International Women’s Day has an increasingly important role to play in our society. Every March 8th, the day is an important day to celebrate Women’s achievements, equality, gender parity and also to fundraise for female-focused charities. This year the focus of the day is #choosetochallenge – …
Feature / Playlist: Factory Records – A complete Spotify discography
FOLLOWING the success (well, relatively) of our John Peel playlist, in which we compiled all the Festive 50 tracks for every year John ran that feature all in one place (well, the ones from Spotify anyway), we’re delving into the catalogue of Manchester’s Factory Records. It’s a story that’s been well told in lots of …
Exclusive: Backseat Mafia Takeover Mix 001: King Britt
Recently we fell for Back2Black, the latest EP from Philly producer King Britt (read our review here), and so we were beyond delighted when he agreed to open our new series of exclusive mixes – the Backseat Mafia Takeover Mix, with his Summer Vibes mix. Most people in the know, know of King Britt (His …
Playlist: Rare gems from the Warp Records Catalogue 1989-1994
The story of Warp is now a thing of legend. Born out in Sheffield’s FON record shop by store workers Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell, alongside record producer Robert Gordon. Originally named Warped, it was shortened when the trio discovered it was difficult to distinguish over the phone. Like any new label, they …
Playlist: Carl Cox @ Opening Party, Space Ibiza, Spain 31st May 2009
What do you get if you put together one of the worlds bet, and biggest, DJ’s with one of the best (and biggest – you get the gist) clubs. Well, unforgettable nights. While we at Backseat Mafia were’t at Space in Ibiza in 2009 for the season opening party, the pretty epic set Carl Cox …
Playlist: John Peel Show 26.6.88 tracks
Whatever John Peel show you use, compiling a complete playlist, or even an accurate one, given the breadth of the music chosen, much of it remaining in obscurity, is nigh on impossible. One of the enjoyable things though, it’s – apart from the cross genre breadth that Peel utilised meaning the music jumps from one …
Playlist: Graeme Park – Hacienda, Manchester 28.3.92
Put together a legendary club, Manchester’s Hacienda (a club I frequented albeit somewhat infrequently around this time), famously owned by Tony Wilson and Factory Records and propped up almost exclusively by New Orders money, and a DJ – Graeme Park, who was in the midst of his nine year residency at the club, at the …
Feature: I was a Manumission Robot! Plus ’98 club anthems soundtrack
It was May, 1998. I was 34 and jobless, my girlfriend had left me, and my band of twelve years was imploding before my eyes. The dry-rot on the bedroom walls of my rented flat had reached a state where it was hazardous to sleep in there. Rock bottom had begun to sound like an …