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Heller & Farley - Dynamic Duo
Remixing - The song to start with has to be good.. Many of us in prog circles will have fond memories of Heller & Farley. The Roach Motel...

PHC - JayDobie
Feb 5, 20221 min read


Power - Its about the DJ promotion..
1993 and Power are one of the biggest DJ promotion services in the UK.. Back at a time when I was regularly playing out and working in a...

PHC - JayDobie
Jan 29, 20222 min read


Drum Club.. Dancefloor & Production..
"We intend to add loads of new ideas to what's essentially trance music".. A Thursday night was always the way to start a weekend and...

PHC - JayDobie
Jan 21, 20221 min read


Rocky & Diesel.. Rock 2 House..
The partnership first came to prominence when they teamed up with Ashley Beedle.. Darren Rock and Darren House.. I always really liked...

PHC - JayDobie
Jan 15, 20221 min read


Dust Brothers.. Cut the Crap..
We like to work on the hoof.. Dust Brothers are of course a pair of American producers. However, for a short while the UK had its very...

PHC - JayDobie
Jan 8, 20221 min read


Fabio Paras - Walking Away..
Progressive Icon.. Musical Pioneer.. As the Facebook PHC group goes into its fourteenth year in 2022 and the blog approaches 30,000 hits...

PHC - JayDobie
Dec 17, 202116 min read


Joe T Vannelli.. A dubby mix
He's remixed Thelma Houston, Danny Tenaglia, Robert Miles and even Eartha Kitt.. You can't talk about Italian DJ producers without...

PHC - JayDobie
Dec 11, 20211 min read


MOS - The £500,000 sound system..
The sound system was originally tested to 156 decibels.. Hard to believe that the Ministry of Sound has been with us for 30 years now....

PHC - JayDobie
Nov 20, 20211 min read


Tony De Vit - Up the Brum..
You got me Burning Up.. While perhaps Tony De Vit may not be regarded as a progressive house DJ, for anybody that heard him play back in...

PHC - JayDobie
Nov 13, 20211 min read


Playboys & Helicopter..freshblood remixers.
Early nineties.. remix culture was becoming increasingly popular, this great DJ mag piece from 93 explores two prolific teams.. Playboys...

PHC - JayDobie
Nov 6, 20211 min read


Billy Kiltie - Running Scotland's hottest record shop and label..
This week we head back to 1993 and a DJ magazine article about the hugely popular record shop 23rd Precinct. Originally opened by an...

PHC - JayDobie
Oct 29, 20211 min read


Pete Tong - Essssential..
January 1993 - "they might be giving me more time next year; then I'm going to introduce more guests doing half hour mixes.." Pete Tong...

PHC - JayDobie
Oct 23, 20211 min read


Home - £10,000,000 clubbing for the noughties..
Its how you look.. Its how you listen.. Its who you are.. Home nightclub.. (owners Big Beat International) Situated at No1 Leicester...

PHC - JayDobie
Oct 16, 20212 min read


Reasons to be cheerful..
Four independent record labels that helped define the sound of UK house music speak to Tony Marcus about what started to go right back in...

PHC - JayDobie
Oct 2, 20211 min read


Techno knows no face..
An early piece examining anonymity and aliases in dance music. Whilst even in 1992 the concept was not unheard of in other genres, house...

PHC - JayDobie
Sep 25, 20211 min read


Ambient - Where did it come from?
Follow up piece (1992) to the 1990 Mixmag feature exploring what was described as a 'bizarre phenomenon' - ambient house. Atmospheres and...

PHC - JayDobie
Sep 12, 20211 min read


Steve Parry - The Seladorian..
This month we were very pleased to sit down with one of the most humble and busy guys in dance music. He's forged a career which first...

PHC - JayDobie
Sep 4, 202117 min read


John Digweed - Natural Progression
A great one to stumble across this week. John Digweed talks his club night, musical style, Twilo and the two albums that were about to be...

PHC - JayDobie
Aug 29, 20211 min read


Kings of Clubs.. McClusky & Hannon
Always nice to come across a piece documenting the early nineties in clubland. Here we have Sean McClusky (Love Ranch & The Brain -...

PHC - JayDobie
Aug 27, 20211 min read


Lee Burridge - In the city..
He was one of the so called Nu-Breed. After a stint in Hong Kong where he helped launch the underground club scene he moved back to the...

PHC - JayDobie
Aug 13, 20211 min read
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