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## Posts
- [Daft Punk — Da funk • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/daft-punk-da-funk.md)
- [Milk & Sugar feat. Lizzy Pattinson — Let The Sunshine In • 2003](https://blog.12edit.com/video/milk-sugar-let-the-sunshine-in.md)
- [Darude — Sandstorm • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/darude-sandstorm-2000.md)
- [Roni Size & Reprazent — Watching windows • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/roni-size-watching-windows.md)
- [De Nuit — All That Mattered (Love You Down) • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/de-nuit-all-that-mattered.md)
- [187 Lockdown — Kung Fu • 1998](https://blog.12edit.com/video/187-lockdown-kung-fu.md)
- [Viennese masters of downbeat, Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister. 2020s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/kruder-dorfmeister-2020.md)
- [Technotronic — Pump up the jam • 1989, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/technotronic-pump-up-the-jam.md)
- [Orhan Terzi aka DJ Quicksilver. Late 90s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/dj-quicksilver-in-silver.md)
- [Röyksopp feat. Erlend Øye — Poor Leno • 2001](https://blog.12edit.com/video/royksopp-poor-leno.md)
- [York — Farewell to the Moon (Watergate remix) • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/york-farewell-to-the-moon.md)
- [The incomparable Karl Hyde, lead singer and author of an absurd lyrics in the Underworld band. 1999](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/karl-hyde-underwater.md)
- [Basement Jaxx feat. Blu James — Red Alert (UK version) • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/basement-jaxx-red-alert-uk-version.md)
- [Goldie — Mother • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/goldie-mother.md)
- [DJ Tonka working on Heartjumpa track in his home studio. Interior view and outside view. September 2000](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/dj-tonka-studio.md)
- [Zed Bias feat. Nicky Prince & MC Rumpus — Neighbourhood • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/zed-bias-neighbourhood.md)
- [Robert Miles — Children (UK version) 1996, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/robert-miles-children-uk-version.md)
- [Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke for Kevin and Perry go Large promo. 2000](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/kevin-and-perry-go-large-poster.md)
- [DJ Dado — The X-Files • 1996, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/dj-dado-the-x-files.md)
- [Young Grooverider and Fabio. Early 90s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/grooverider-and-fabio-early-90s.md)
- [Meet Synkro, one of the most influential artist of future garage scene. 2010s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/synkro-2010.md)
- [Tosca — Honey (Markus Kienzl dub) • 2001](https://blog.12edit.com/video/tosca-honey.md)
- [Libra pres. Taylor feat. Jan Johnston — Calling your name • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/libra-pres-taylor-calling-your-name.md)
- [Chemical Brothers feat. Bernard Sumner — Out of Control • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chemical-brothers-out-of-control.md)
- [Adam F — Music in my mind • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/adam-f-music-in-my-mind.md)
- [Rod Modell is having a good time](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/rod-modell-drivin.md)
- [Scooter — How much is the fish? • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/scooter-how-much-is-the-fish.md)
- [Deep Dish: Ali ‘Dubfire’ Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi in Toronto. 2003](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/deep-dish-in-toronto.md)
- [The Prodigy — Girls • 2004, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-prodigy-girls.md)
- [Young Will Smith aka Fresh Prince flouts the rules of etiquette. 80s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/rude-fresh-prince.md)
- [B-15 Project feat. Crissy D, Lady G — Girls like us • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/b-15-project-girls-like-us.md)
- [Trance Allstars — Go! 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/trance-allstars-go.md)
- [Tangerine Dream, an electronic music classics. Edgar Froese is the one on the far left. 1976](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/tangerine-dream-baroque.md)
- [Tim Deluxe feat. Sam Obernik — It Just Won't Do • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/tim-deluxe-it-just-wont-do.md)
- [AIR feat. Beth Hirsch — All I need • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/air-all-i-need.md)
- [Duck Sauce — Barbra Streisand • 2010, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/duck-sauce-barbra-streisand-2010.md)
- [Carl Cox — Phuture 2000 • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/carl-cox-phuture-2000.md)
- [The Grid — Swamp thing • 1994, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-grid-swamp-thing.md)
- [It’s a fine day to embrace the world. Kirsty Hawkshaw in 1992](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/kirsty-hawkshaw-92.md)
- [Beastie Boys — Body movin' (Fatboy Slim remix) • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/beastie-boys-body-movin.md)
- [Alibi — Eternity • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/alibi-eternity.md)
- [ATB — 9 pm (Till I Come) 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/atb-9pm.md)
- [Timo Maas is looking into his future. Early 00s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/timo-maas-future.md)
- [Freddy Fresh feat. Fatboy Slim — Badder Badder Schwing • 1999](https://blog.12edit.com/video/freddy-fresh-feat-fatboy-slim-badder-badder-schwing.md)
- [The Orb — Little fluffy clouds • 1990, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-orb-little-fluffy-clouds-90.md)
- [Young Rupert Parkes aka Photek. 90s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/young-photek.md)
- [Nomad feat. Steve Mac, MC Mikee Freedom — I wanna give you devotion • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/nomad-i-wanna-give-you-devotion.md)
- [Robbie Rivera — Bang • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/robbie-rivera-bang.md)
- [Massive Attack feat. Elizabeth Fraser — Teardrop 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/massive-attack-teardrop.md)
- [The Basement Jaxx members (Felix Buxton and Simone Ratcliffe) are caught red-handed. 1999](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/oops-basement-jaxx.md)
- [Moby — Natural Blues (Animated version) • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/moby-natural-blues-animated-version.md)
- [Chicane with Power Circle — Offshore '97 • 1997](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chicane-with-power-circle-offshore-97.md)
- [Modjo — Chillin' 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/modjo-chillin.md)
- [Adam F on Circles music video shoots. 1997](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/adam-f-circles-photoshoot.md)
- [Enigma — Principles of Lust (Find Love) • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/enigma-principles-of-lust.md)
- [The musician of the second wave of Detroit Techno, Carl Craig. Late 90s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/carl-craig-turntables.md)
- [Quadrophonia — Quadrophonia • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/quadrophonia-quadrophonia.md)
- [Sven Vath shows a pyramid on the reverse of one-dollar bill](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/sven-vath-triangle.md)
- [Natural Born Chillers — Rock The Funky Beat • 1997](https://blog.12edit.com/video/natural-born-chillers-rock-the-funky-beat.md)
- [Josh Wink on a conscription. 2001](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/josh-wink-crop.md)
- [Klubbheads — Turn up the bass • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/klubbheads-turn-up-the-bass.md)
- [SL2 — On A Ragga Tip • 1992](https://blog.12edit.com/video/sl2-on-a-ragga-tip.md)
- [James Lavelle, Mo’Wax label founder. 1990s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/mowax-james-lavelle.md)
- [Inner City — Good Life • 1988, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/inner-city-good-life.md)
- [Morcheeba. In the centre is lead singer Skye Edwards. On either side are the Goldfrey brothers. Ross is on the left, Paul in on the right. Early 00s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/morcheeba-pattern.md)
- [StoneBridge feat. Therese — Put ‘em high • 2004, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/stonebridge-put-em-high.md)
- [Cosmic Baby — A Tribute to Blade Runner • 1995, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/cosmic-baby-a-tribute-to-blade-runner.md)
- [M-Beat feat. General Levy — Incredible (Booyaka Booyaka) • 1994, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/general-levy-incredible.md)
- [William Orbit, the great and terrible](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/william-orbit-the-great-and-terrible.md)
- [Olive — You're not alone • 1996](https://blog.12edit.com/video/olive-you-are-not-alone.md)
- [Joey Beltram — Game Form • 1995](https://blog.12edit.com/video/joey-beltram-game-form.md)
- [Gat Decor feat. Juana Volkers — Passion • 1992](https://blog.12edit.com/video/gat-decor-passion.md)
- [The All Seeing I — The beat goes on • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-all-seeing-i-the-beat-goes-on.md)
- [Jan Johnston, the first lady of trance music. Early 00s](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/jan-johnston-00s.md)
- [Double Trouble feat. Rebel MC — Street Tuff • 1989, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/double-trouble-street-tuff.md)
- [Photek — Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu • 1997](https://blog.12edit.com/video/photek-ni-ten-ichi-ryu.md)
- [Jan Johnston — Flesh • 2001](https://blog.12edit.com/video/jan-johnston-flesh.md)
- [Mylo — In my arms • 2005](https://blog.12edit.com/video/mylo-in-my-arms.md)
- [Chemical Brothers early performance in 1996](https://blog.12edit.com/photo/chemical-brothers-live-96.md)
- [Dance 2 Trance — Power of American Natives • 1992, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/dance-2-trance-power-of-american-natives.md)
- [The KLF feat. Glenn Hughes — America: What Time Is Love? • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-klf-feat-glenn-hughes-america-what-time-is-love-1991.md)
- [Shy FX feat. UK Apachi — Original Nuttah • 1994, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/shy-fx-feat-uk-apachi-original-nuttah.md)
- [Antiloop — Nowhere to hide • 1997](https://blog.12edit.com/video/antiloop-nowhere-to-hide.md)
- [Us3 feat. Rahsaan — Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) [US Version] • 1992, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/us3-cantaloop-us-version.md)
- [The Chemical Brothers — Elektrobank • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chemical-brothers-elektrobank.md)
- [Audio Bullys feat. Nancy Sinatra — Shot you down • 2005, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/audio-bullys-shot-you-down.md)
- [DJ Tonka pres. Chip Tunes — Heartjumpa • 2001](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chip-tunes-heartjumpa.md)
- [Artful Dodger feat. Craig David — Re-rewind • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/artful-dodger-re-rewind.md)
- [Kraftwerk — Musique Non Stop • 1986, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/kraftwerk-musique-non-stop.md)
- [Royal Gigolos — California Dreamin' • 2004, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/royal-gigolos-california-dreamin.md)
- [The Shapeshifters feat. Cookie — Lola’s Theme • 2003, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-shapeshifters-lolas-theme.md)
- [Apollo 440 — Ain’t talkin’ ’bout dub • 1996](https://blog.12edit.com/video/apollo-440-aint-talkin-bout-dub.md)
- [Scooter — Move your ass! • 1995, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/scooter-move-your-ass.md)
- [A Guy Called Gerald — Voodoo Ray • 1988](https://blog.12edit.com/video/a-guy-called-gerald-voodoo-ray.md)
- [Junior Jack — Thrill Me (Such a Thrill) • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/junior-jack-thrill-me.md)
- [Röyksopp — Eple • 2001, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/royksopp-eple.md)
- [Sequential One — Happy Feelings • 1995, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/sequential-one-happy-feelings.md)
- [Orbital — The Saint • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/orbital-the-saint.md)
- [Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop) • 1984, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/harold-faltermeyer-axel-f.md)
- [Phats & Small — Turn Around • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/phats-small-turn-around.md)
- [DJ Rap — Good To Be Alive • 1999](https://blog.12edit.com/video/dj-rap-good-to-be-alive.md)
- [I:Cube — Adore • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/i-cube-adore.md)
- [Groove Armada feat. Celetia Martin — My friend • 2001](https://blog.12edit.com/video/groove-armada-my-friend.md)
- [Rusko — Woo Boost • 2010, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/rusko-woo-boost.md)
- [Party Animals — Aquarius • 1996, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/party-animals-aquarius.md)
- [Kernkraft 400 — Zombie Nation • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/kernkraft-400-zombie-nation.md)
- [Kosheen — (Slip & Slide) Suicide • 2001, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/kosheen-slip-slide-suicide.md)
- [Uniting Nations feat. Laura More — Ai No Corrida • 2005](https://blog.12edit.com/video/uniting-nations-ai-no-corrida.md)
- [Basement Jaxx — Rendez Vu •  1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/basement-jaxx-rendez-vu.md)
- [Beloved — Sun shining • 1989, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/beloved-sun-shining.md)
- [Gouryella — Gouryella • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/gouryella-gouryella.md)
- [M/A/R/R/S — Pump up the volume • 1987, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/marrs-pump-up-the-volume.md)
- [Benassi Bros. feat. Dhany — Hit my heart • 2004, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/benassi-bros-hit-my-heart.md)
- [Puretone — Addicted to Bass • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/puretone-addicted-to-bass.md)
- [Propellerheads — Bang on • 1998](https://blog.12edit.com/video/propellerheads-bang-on.md)
- [Daft Punk — Technologic • 2005, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/daft-punk-technologic.md)
- [187 Lockdown — Gunman • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/187-lockdown-gunman.md)
- [Moby — Bring back my happiness • 1995, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/moby-bring-back-my-happiness.md)
- [Herbie Hancock — Rockit • 1983, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/herbie-hancock-rockit.md)
- [Goldie feat. Diane Charlemagne — Inner City Life • 1995, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/goldie-inner-city-life.md)
- [PPK — Resurrection • 2001, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/ppk-resurrection.md)
- [Enigma — Sadeness. Part 1 • 1990, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/enigma-sadeness-part-1.md)
- [Ken Ishii — Awakening • 2003, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/ken-ishii-awakening.md)
- [Suzanne Vega & DNA — Tom’s Diner • 1990, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/suzanne-vega-dna-toms-diner.md)
- [Kai Tracid — Tiefenrausch (The Deep Blue) • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/kai-tracid-tiefenrausch.md)
- [Cerrone — Supernature • 1977, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/cerrone-supernature.md)
- [Kojak — Can‘t stop it • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/kojak-cant-stop-it.md)
- [Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher — Let Forever Be • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chemical-brothers-let-forever-be.md)
- [Liquid — Sweet Harmony • 1992](https://blog.12edit.com/video/liquid-sweet-harmony.md)
- [Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder on the Dancefloor • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/sophie-ellis-bextor-murder-on-the-dancefloor.md)
- [Tori Amos — Professional Widow (Armand van Helden remix) • 1996](https://blog.12edit.com/video/tori-amos-professional-widow.md)
- [Second Protocol — Basslick • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/second-protocol-basslick.md)
- [Wildchild — Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim remix) • 1998](https://blog.12edit.com/video/wildchild-renegade-master.md)
- [System F — Out of the blue • 1999](https://blog.12edit.com/video/system-f-out-of-the-blue-1999.md)
- [Sonz of Loop da Loop Era — Peace & Loveism • 1992, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/sonz-of-loop-da-loop-era-peace-loveism.md)
- [Chicane — Offshore • 1996, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chicane-offshore-96.md)
- [Adam F — Circles • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/adam-f-circles.md)
- [Faithless feat. Estelle — Why Go? • 2005](https://blog.12edit.com/video/faithless-why-go.md)
- [Space — Magic fly • 1977, AI HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/space-magic-fly.md)
- [Powerhouse feat. Duane Harden — What You Need • 1999, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/powerhouse-what-you-need.md)
- [The Supermen Lovers — Starlight (The Fame) • 2001, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-supermen-lovers-starlight.md)
- [Darude — Feel the beat • 2000](https://blog.12edit.com/video/darude-feel-the-beat.md)
- [Robert Miles feat. Nina Miranda — Paths • 2001, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/robert-miles-paths.md)
- [Giorgio Moroder — From here to eternity / Utopia • 1977, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/giorgio-moroder-from-here-to-eternity.md)
- [Elvis vs JXL — A Little Less Conversation • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/elvis-vs-jxl-a-little-less-conversation.md)
- [Laurent Garnier — Flashback • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/laurent-garnier-flashback.md)
- [DJ Hype pres. The Ganja Kru — Super Sharp Shooter • 1996](https://blog.12edit.com/video/ganja-kru-super-sharp-shooter.md)
- [Opus III — It’s a fine day • 1992, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/opus-iii-its-a-fine-day.md)
- [SQ-1 — Balare • 2002, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/sq-1-balare.md)
- [Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip — Galvanize • 2004, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/chemical-brothers-galvanize.md)
- [Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/massive-attack-unfinished-sympathy.md)
- [Cornershop — Brimful of Asha (Fatboy Slim remix) • 1998](https://blog.12edit.com/video/cornershop-brimful-of-asha.md)
- [Daft Punk — Revolution 909 •  1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/daft-punk-revolution-909-97.md)
- [The KLF — Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent) • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-klf-last-train-to-trancentral.md)
- [Kraftwerk — Die Roboter • 1991, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/kraftwerk-die-roboter.md)
- [DJ Tonka — Don’t be Afraid (To Let Yourself Go) • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/dj-tonka-dont-be-afraid.md)
- [Antiloop — Start rocking • 2000, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/antiloop-start-rocking.md)
- [Roni Size & Reprazent — Brown paper bag • 1997, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/roni-size-brown-paper-bag.md)
- [Serious Danger — Deeper. Part 1 • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/serious-danger-deeper.md)
- [Altern 8 — E-Vapor-8 • 1992, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/altern8-e-vapor8.md)
- [Underworld — Jumbo • 1999](https://blog.12edit.com/video/underworld-jumbo.md)
- [The Wiseguys — Start the commotion • 1998, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/the-wiseguys-start-the-commotion.md)
- [William Orbit feat. Beth Orton — Water from a vine leaf • 1993, HD](https://blog.12edit.com/video/william-orbit-water-from-a-vine-leaf.md)
- [Benny Benassi pres. The Biz — Satisfaction (First version) • 2003](https://blog.12edit.com/video/benny-benassi-satisfaction-first-version.md)
- [Sven Vath — L’Esperanza • 1993](https://blog.12edit.com/video/sven-vath-esperanza.md)
- [AIR — Kelly watch the stars • 1998](https://blog.12edit.com/video/air-kelly-watch-the-stars.md)
- [Rollo Armstrong goes to studio. How to break a bad habit and start writing good music](https://blog.12edit.com/rollo-goes-to-studio.md) - I came across a brilliant story in an interview with Faithless’s grey eminence Rollo Armstrong. Despite the fact that he prefers to stay out of album covers and gigs, it was he who came up with the sound for each track; he was responsible for the concept behind the albums; he gave instructions on w…
- [Adam F — Colours Revisited.  What’s wrong with the new version of the great drum‘n’bass album](https://blog.12edit.com/adam-f-colours-revisited.md) - My unexpected review of the year. I realised that Adam F was re-recording Colours—one of the best drum‘n’bass albums ever—and, apparently, the new version should be on the shelves. Right. I listened to it. My first impression was that the studio sessions with which Fenton teased readers on Facebook…
- [The downside of listening to music for long periods of time](https://blog.12edit.com/past-perfect.md) - The downside of listening to music from years gone by for long periods of time is that it starts to feel as if it was recorded today and everyone is listening to it. Of course, that’s not the case. The characters on stage now are increasingly reminiscent of students from a remedial class. With name…
- [Mirco de Govia / Best 2001—2006](https://blog.12edit.com/mirco-de-govia.md)
- [Musicians as brands](https://blog.12edit.com/tm.md) - Not many people are willing to admit that The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Moby, Aphex Twin, van Buuren, and Tiësto are incredibly overrated names (as are many other guys in the electronic music hall of fame). No doubt they have their merits and I write about them regularly, but most of the buzz around thei…
- [Book: Stephen Witt — How music got free](https://blog.12edit.com/how-music-got-free.md)
- [Daft Punk — Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. A brief story behind the film for the album Discovery](https://blog.12edit.com/daft-punk-interstella-5555.md)
- [Documentary / Northern Bassline: It’s Bass Up North](https://blog.12edit.com/northern-bassline.md) - A documentary about Northern bassline. Filmmaker David Graham travelled to the north of the UK to briefly recount the emergence, heyday and decline of a form of grunge music that reached out to young people in the once industrial centres of the United Kingdom. This is the second in a series of prog…
- [The Non-Persistence of Memory](https://blog.12edit.com/non-persistence-of-memory.md) - I’ve noticed that I don’t remember track names anymore. They are washed out of my memory at the first opportunity. Earlier (about 15 years ago), I could say, this track was released in such-and-such year and is only found on the New Zealand edition; now the musician’s name is enough of an anchor fr…
- [Filterheadz / Best 2002—2024](https://blog.12edit.com/filterheadz.md) - “We started out playing instruments as kids. Gradually we get more and more interested in electronic music. First into house like Masters at Work and early Daft Punk. We got into techno by going to a house party and checking out the second room where they were playing techno. The energy and vibe wa…
- [Guess Who, 3AM, Ratty. Why does Scooter need side projects?](https://blog.12edit.com/are-you-ratty.md)
- [Faithless: Bangers & Rarities / 1995—2006](https://blog.12edit.com/faithless.md) - When it comes to Faithless, it’s a bit of a shame that they are perceived as a one-hit wonder Insomnia/Salva mea (the older ones could add God is a DJ and We come 1, the tuned-in could remember Take the long way home and I want more). In the first years of the band’s life, the members labelled the t…
- [The Wiseguys — The Antidote. Brief story behind the album](https://blog.12edit.com/the-wiseguys-the-antidote.md)
- [Robert Miles — Children. Success, drama, plagiarism. Story behind the track](https://blog.12edit.com/robert-miles-children.md)
- [My greatest tip for beginners](https://blog.12edit.com/noob-saibot.md) - Musicians are often asked: what advice do you have for beginners? I’m not a musician, but my unsolicited advice is this: keep all your favourite music on your computer. You can laugh and say “Thanks Cap”, but for hundreds of thousands of users of now closed streaming services or their accounts, it…
- [Perry O’Neil / Best 2004—2006](https://blog.12edit.com/perry-oneil.md)
- [We Are Hardcore. Mixes containing a timeline of oldschool hardcore rave 1990—1995](https://blog.12edit.com/we-are-hardcore.md) - Today’s mixes comprise hardcore from the first half of the nineties from DJ, label owner and fan of complex percussion Jay Cunning. Since he’s based in London, Jay’s legitimate interest is not Dutch hardcore, but the British one, a brief period when the smooth drumming from house and techno records…
- [Humate / Best 1999—2003](https://blog.12edit.com/humate.md) - Of course, everyone has heard the track Love Stimulation by the then-trio Humate. A track that 95% of the time turns out to be one of the remix versions by 22-year-old Paul van Dyk. His 1993 version with a piano breakdown was so good that it overpowered the inconspicuous original. The rest of Humat…
- [The Chemical Brothers’ cameos](https://blog.12edit.com/chemical-brothers-cameos.md) - As far as I can remember, the Chemical Brothers have always tried to make unusual music videos and avoid showing their faces too much (without remaining completely anonymous). Let’s catch the guys in their videos: * Setting Sun — in the first and last vision of the girl; * Block Rockin’ Beats — meet…
- [Why we will never see Oldschool Renegades documentary](https://blog.12edit.com/oldschool-renegades.md)
- [The X-Files. How to write a legendary soundtrack by accident](https://blog.12edit.com/the-x-files.md)
- [Paul Oakenfold — Goa mix. When the UK met Goa Trance](https://blog.12edit.com/paul-oakenfold-goa-mix.md)
- [Documentary: How techno was born. From Detroit to Berlin and back](https://blog.12edit.com/how-techno-was-born-from-detroit-to-berlin-and-back.md) - Just as UNESCO added Berlin techno to its cultural heritage list, we recommend to you a 20-minute documentary about how and when Detroit techno came to Berlin, and how it turned out. You see, it’s important to keep up with current events :-D Here we have: the Tresor club and its founder Dimitri Heg…
- [A brief overview of Swing House](https://blog.12edit.com/swing-house.md) - Swing House is a clear example of the epiphany musicians had in the early nineties: it turned out that everything could be mixed with four-on-the-floor. In this case, forgotten records with orchestral jazz of the 1930-1950s were used, and either their elements (vocals, drums, brass, keyboards) are…
- [Documentary: The Untold Story of Euro Disco](https://blog.12edit.com/the-untold-story-of-euro-disco.md) - We know that modern electronic dance music came from the fusion of disco, soul and funk, resulting in American house in the 1980s. But how did music built on live instruments become synthetic? And how did it become popular in Europe? Belgian documentary The Untold Story of Euro Disco sheds some lig…
- [Kraftwerk — Minimum Maximum Live](https://blog.12edit.com/kraftwerk-minimum-maximum-live.md) - In the 'Concert Hall' section, we present Minimum Maximum, a two-hour performance by Kraftwerk, compiled from the most successful shows that the band performed in Moscow, Budapest, London, Berlin, Tallinn, Warsaw, Tokyo, Paris and Ljubljana in spring and summer 2004. This isn’t the classic line-up.…
- [Sven van Hees / Best 1995—2023 and a cautionary tale for young musicians](https://blog.12edit.com/sven-van-hees.md)
- [Documentary / Moby Doc](https://blog.12edit.com/moby-doc.md) - Today’s documentary is about Moby. It combines archive footage, poolside stories, staged skits, animation and photos from the past. It’s amazing how Moby documented his life in great detail. Fame caught him already bald—let’s see here what his hair used to look like :-) At the very beginning of the…
- [11 hours of True Deep House: the best from the Roule, Crydamoure, Kneedeep, Large Music, Court Square, Need Music and Rique labels](https://blog.12edit.com/super-deep-house.md) - To warm you up, here is some warm and true deep house from its golden years. It’s true what they say, that music is a universal language. So the young Vietnamese DJ who put together the mixes below is no stranger to American and European house from the nineties. As a starter, there are mixes from t…
- [A brief history of Hardstep Jungle](https://blog.12edit.com/hardstep.md) - Hardstep appeared in the first half of the 1990s, when jungle musicians discovered the original Amen break and were surprised to find out that the original percussion part had a massive bass drum, which makes the track bouncy (before that, the Amen break was taken from hip-hop samples, where the ba…
- [Duett — Leisure. Brief comments on the album](https://blog.12edit.com/duett-leisure.md) - An interesting half-hour album at the intersection of vaporwave, chillwave, and retrowave, basically, with an obvious aesthetic and sound reminiscent of the eighties. Like many others, musically Ben Macklin paints an idyllic picture of time passing luxuriously in the shade of palm trees in the midd…
- [Armin van Buuren / The Best 1996—2008](https://blog.12edit.com/armin-van-buuren.md)
- [Fluke — Risotto. How to mix bass and broken beat at different tempos](https://blog.12edit.com/fluke-risotto.md) - “I think what we do tends to sound quite good in a big, sort of big space with quite a few people. And we do definitely put on better shows for a larger crowd,” says Fluke member Mike Tournier. “But the whole thing is that we make a large sound it’s not a small sound—it’s not a minimal techno kind…
- [Lexicon Avenue / Best of 1998—2006](https://blog.12edit.com/lexicon-avenue.md)
- [Brian Eno — Thursday Afternoon. Story behind the album with one 60-minutes track](https://blog.12edit.com/brian-eno-thursday-afternoon.md)
- [Book: On some faraway beach: Life and times of Brian Eno](https://blog.12edit.com/on-some-faraway-beach.md) - In What to read section, I recommend books about electronic music and people involved in it. Today, it’s the creative biography of Brian Eno, a man who proclaimed, explained and staked out ambient, even though it’s always existed as a genre. But Eno’s role as the godfather of ambient music isn’t hi…
- [Pete Namlook and his Fax](https://blog.12edit.com/pete-namlook.md)
- [Chicane — Nevertheless. Briefly about the best album of 2023](https://blog.12edit.com/chicane-nevertheless.md) - About the best album of this summer, and possibly the whole year. Although you wouldn’t think so from the unimpressive cover. Chicane’s Nevertheless, in which Nick finally stopped his attempts to cater to young people and force out some trendy sound and instead turned to his roots: to the 1980s mus…
- [Essential guide to Early Trance Music. Best releases of MFS, Eye Q, Harthouse, Platipus, Hook, Planet Rhythm, Lost Language](https://blog.12edit.com/oldschool-trance.md)
- [Book: Superstar DJs Here We Go. Glory, excess and burnt out dreams](https://blog.12edit.com/superstar-djs.md)
- [Nu NRG — Freefall. How  Giuseppe Ottaviani met trance music](https://blog.12edit.com/nu-nrg-freefall.md)
- [Why do DJs constantly twist the knobs of the mixer?](https://blog.12edit.com/why-do-djs-constantly-twist-the-knobs-of-the-mixer.md) - “Why do DJs constantly twist the knobs of the mixer?” We found this question in the sixth bag of letters and will be happy to answer it. As an example, let’s take an average DJ with an average taste. What do they play? Some bland and sugary organic house and melodic techno. All sorts of trending tr…
- [Jazzmatazz. When jazz meets hip-hop](https://blog.12edit.com/jazzmatazz.md) - The best thing that could have happened to jazz and hip-hop was when they met in the early nineties (that’s why the cover evokes the great Blue Note). In 1993, Guru gathered his folks and invited the masters of American jazz to play live on his album. “Doin’ the tracks with the older guys was like…
- [How do musicians write tracks together?](https://blog.12edit.com/together-forever.md) - How do musicians write tracks together? And why? For various reasons. Sometimes two people actually write faster. Alone, a musician worries about the quality, overthinks everything for ages, and constantly winds themself up with the question: what if it sucks? Working together, the second person ca…
- [Congo Natty and samples in his tracks](https://blog.12edit.com/congo-natty-samples.md)
- [Tiesto & Junkie XL — Obsession. Brief story behind the track](https://blog.12edit.com/tiesto-and-junkie-xl-obsession.md)
- [Benny Benassi — Hypnotica. A brief history of the album](https://blog.12edit.com/benny-benassi-hypnotica.md)
- [Bad boys: best releases of Dropping Science, Commercial Suicide, Formation Records, Metalheadz, Soul:r, Virus, Tru Playaz, Full Cycle, Dope Dragon, Phantom Audio, CIA Recordings](https://blog.12edit.com/the-benefits-of-having-your-own-label.md) - Why do musicians start their own labels? So that they wouldn’t have to knock on the doors of other people’s labels, and could instead release their own records without delay and without looking behind their shoulders at someone else’s management. Someone else’s label can keep a record as a promo fo…
- [Jean Michel Jarre — Geometry of Love. A brief history of the album for one club](https://blog.12edit.com/jean-michel-jarre-geometry-of-love.md)
- [A brief Introduction to the real Deep House](https://blog.12edit.com/deep-house.md) - Initially, deep house was the music of black musicians who sang about their innermost thoughts: love, freedom, equality, mutual understanding and peace, and in this regard, deep meant the depth of feelings. Closer to the nineties, deep house began to be understood as partially or completely instrum…
- [Jean Michel Jarre — Sessions 2000. How to force someone to record an album](https://blog.12edit.com/jean-michel-jarre-sessions-2000.md)
- [The Thrillseekers — Nightmusic](https://blog.12edit.com/thrillseekers-nightmusic.md) - In 2005, Steve Helstrip (aka the Thrillseekers with the Synaesthesia trance record) released a double compilation, which is interesting, not simply because of the DJ set on the first disc (there are a lot of those), but because of the amazing remixes on the second disc. That’s where we’ll start. Th…
- [Mixmaster Morris — Abstract Funk Theory](https://blog.12edit.com/mixmaster-morris-abstract-funk-theory.md) - This marvellously diverse work by Mixmaster Morris—densely saturated with all kinds of jazz samples, a continuous crunch of funky breaks of different tempos, and the infrequent whisper of soul divas—is the best compilation from the Abstract Funk Theory series to my discerning taste. And it’s also a…
- [G:MT — Greenwich Mean Time](https://blog.12edit.com/gmt.md) - Next on our list of youthful films about music is G:MT— Greenwich Mean Time. Although the musical plotline isn’t paramount there (G:MT is the casually dropped name of a jazzy jungle band during its introduction to record bosses). In the foreground are the relationships of the characters, recent hig…
- [Fatboy Slim — Live @ Big Beach Boutique](https://blog.12edit.com/big-beach-boutique.md) - Recently, Fatboy Slim posted a recording of a grandiose DJ set Big Beach Boutique II in excellent quality. Grandiose is the right word. The organisers expected a maximum of 40,000 people coming to the free performance of three DJs (in addition to Fatboy, there was the cardinal of progressive house…
- [Azzido da Bass — Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix). A brief story behind the track](https://blog.12edit.com/azzido-da-bass-dooms-night.md)
- [A brief history of Breakbeat Garage](https://blog.12edit.com/breakstep.md) - Breakbeat garage is a short-lived and inconspicuous subgenre that appeared at the junction of the nineties and the noughties, being a link between sweet-voiced two-step and gloomy dubstep. Having appeared in the years of the commercial heyday of garage music, breakstep, thanks to jungle musicians,…
- [Thievery Corporation / Best 1996—2018](https://blog.12edit.com/thievery-corporation.md)
- [Book: Simon Reynolds — Energy Flash / Generation Ecstasy](https://blog.12edit.com/simon-reynolds-energy-flash.md)
- [A brief history of Ragga Jungle](https://blog.12edit.com/ragga-jungle.md) - There have always been elements of Jamaican music in jungle. Musicians actively used deep bass from dub. In the early days of reggae, chants were mixed with breaks while DJ sets, according to Jamaican tradition, were diluted with MCs’ hollers and shouts. So the question of rapping over the whole tr…
- [Book: Laurent Garnier — Electrochoc](https://blog.12edit.com/laurent-garnier-electrochoc.md)
- [Benny Benassi — Satisfaction. Brief story behind the track](https://blog.12edit.com/benny-benassi-satisfaction.md) - It’s difficult to live a long and happy life without hearing Benassi’s track Satisfaction. Benny Benassi is a union of cousins: the elder Marco (the one in the spotlight) and the younger Alessandro (prefers to stay in the shadows). Both come from Reggio Emilia, a town of 150 thousand people in the…
- [Steezyasfuck advises cool chillhop](https://blog.12edit.com/steezyasfuck.md) - Steezyasfuck kept abreast of chillhop from the very beginning of the movement, posting albums and EPs with the beats of various musicians on his own YouTube channel. Over time, he earned himself the reputation of a great selector, and more recently he confirmed it by starting to arrange other peopl…
- [Jeff Mills — Exhibitionist 2. Solo on drum machine](https://blog.12edit.com/jeff-mills-909.md) - It’s 909 day. As we know, Jeff Mills is not only skilful in mixing records from three turntables, but is also capable of single-handedly putting together a mini-concert on just one Roland TR-909—a drum machine whose rhythm has completely defined the sound of techno and house music.
- [A brief history of the Dream House](https://blog.12edit.com/dream-house.md) - The dream house that appeared in the mid-90s—with its soft arrangements of piercing piano passages, dreamy orchestral overdubs and a moderately pulsating bass drum—was designed to calm down Italian clubbers, excited by the fast rhythms of techno and hardcore. It turned out even better than expected…
- [Akufen — My way. A brief story behind the album maden from airwave samples](https://blog.12edit.com/akufen-my-way.md)
- [Book: Hypnotised, A Journey Through Trance Music 1990—2005](https://blog.12edit.com/hypnotised.md) - The other day, I picked up a book about the history of trance music, named Hypnotised after a track by Paul Oakenfold, which hints at the primary goal of the genre—to hypnotise with rhythm and melody. The book is marketed as the first encyclopaedia of trance music. Reportedly, its author, the Dutch…
- [Jeff Mills — Exhibitionist. The story of the sophisticated live show](https://blog.12edit.com/jeff-mills-exhibitionist.md) - One blooming day in 2003, a man in black suddenly appeared in the window of the Spanish fabric store Gratacós instead of mannequins in chic attire and began to play rattling and rustling music with three turntables. All the techno that he played behind the glass was transmitted to the outside speak…
- [Lemongrass / Best 1998—2022](https://blog.12edit.com/lemongrass.md) - Roland Voss did funk in the 1970s, explored the possibilities of electronic instruments in the 1980s, and in the 1990s decided to start not only recording music, but also releasing it. He tried out jungle and trip-hop, but settled on soft and light music with a leisurely rhythm. In the late ninetie…
- [Blue Six — Beautiful Tomorrow. Brief story on a genuine deep house album](https://blog.12edit.com/blue-six-beautiful-tomorrow.md) - Firstly, it’s a perfect example of classic deep house: a soft rhythm, delicate keyboards and beautiful vocals, rather than the modern rubbish that someone mistakenly called deep house. Secondly, it’s further proof that former rockers make good electronic musicians. Andy Compton stopped playing riff…
- [The truth about the selection of vocalists](https://blog.12edit.com/singers-and-directors.md) - Often a musician signed to a major label is limited in choosing singers for their record. They can’t invite just anyone—only those artists who are also signed to this big label. You need a soul diva with the voice of Aretha Franklin? Here’s a catalogue of our artists, you’ll find something. Are you…
- [Kevin & Perry Goes Large. Brief story behind the movie](https://blog.12edit.com/kevin-and-perry-go-large.md)
- [Saafi Brothers — Mystic Cigarettes. A brief history of an ambient album with a Goan touch](https://blog.12edit.com/saafi-brothers-mystic-cigarettes.md) - In the mid-90s, Gabriel Le Mar came back home to Frankfurt after an inspiring Indian trip. In the Indian state of Goa, Goan trance was gaining momentum at that time—multi-layered arpeggios, acid sequences and an unchanging bass became key features of the genre. Le Mar had been observing the develop…
- [Klaus Schulze — Live @ WDR Köln](https://blog.12edit.com/klaus-schulze-live-at-wdr.md) - This is a small live show by Klaus Schulze on German television in 1977 to see how improvisation turns into music. By that time, Klaus had been recording long compositions on synthesisers for more than five years, a 20-minute track on one side of the record. For the audience, a skinny 30-year-old K…
- [Seven mixes to hear how UK Garage was formed](https://blog.12edit.com/ukg.md) - It’s interesting sometimes to trace how a genre has changed. For example, today we have garage mixes from London with the timeline of its origin: firstly 1990-94 records with American garage house, which were played in British clubs at high speeds in the mid-nineties; then 1997, when American garag…
- [Ayla — Nirwana. Story behind the album](https://blog.12edit.com/ayla-nirwana.md)
- [A brief history of Big Beat](https://blog.12edit.com/big-beat.md) - In the first half of the 1990s, a new kind of UK acid house emerged. Under the rumble of funky breakbeats, to which keyboard parts from psychedelic rock, rapping from hip-hop and guitar solos from punk were added, big beat emerged. It 100% justified its name: all its components were pumped, distort…
- [It’s all gone Pete Tong. Brief story behind the movie](https://blog.12edit.com/its-all-gone-pete-tong.md)
- [Sequential One — Energy. A brief history of André’s band before he became ATB](https://blog.12edit.com/sequential-one-energy.md)
- [ATB — 9 pm (Till I Come). You don’t know what this track is really about](https://blog.12edit.com/atb-9pm-till-i-come.md)
- [Human Traffic. Brief story behind the movie](https://blog.12edit.com/human-traffic.md) - The weekend starts here. The first real movie about clubbers and the last great movie of the nineties—this is how it was described in the media. Human Traffic portrays the hard life of working British youth who live from Friday to Friday in anticipation of the weekend. The film is considered a real…
- [Daft Punk and their lost concert from 1997](https://blog.12edit.com/daft-punk-alive-1997.md)
- [17 hours of dark drum’n’bass: Best works by Renegade Hardware and Moving Shadow labels](https://blog.12edit.com/moving-renegade.md) - It’s a good idea to mix not only the best works of musicians, but also iconic label releases: to get to know them better or, for example, to feel nostalgic looking at your record collection. A month ago we had jungle and drum‘n’bass mixed with ambient; other day we had a jungle and drum‘n’bass mixe…
- [Nitin Sawhney — Migration. Brief story behind the album](https://blog.12edit.com/nitin-sawhney-migration.md)
- [Chicane — Live @ Astoria Theatre](https://blog.12edit.com/chicane-live-at-astoria-theatre.md) - I recently stumbled upon a recording of Nick from Chicane’s performance, which was filmed in the summer of 2000, apparently for a Japanese audience. For twenty years, I listened to another epic Nick concert at the Palladium club (also in 2000) on MP3 and could only imagine what was happening on sta…
- [Giorgio Moroder. The history of the EDM Grandfather](https://blog.12edit.com/giorgio-moroder.md)
- [11 hours of jazzy jungle and drum‘n’bass: The best tracks from 720 Degrees, Looking Good, Creative Source, Moving Shadow, Photek, Full Cycle, V Recordings, and Urban Flavour](https://blog.12edit.com/sunset-dnb.md) - It’s a good idea to mix not only the best works of musicians, but also iconic label releases: to get to know them better or, for example, to feel nostalgic looking at your record collection. A month ago, we had melodic drum‘n’bass, mostly from Good Looking. Today, in addition to the former offshoot…
- [Tangerine Dream & Schiller — Morgenstern. The story of the collaboration](https://blog.12edit.com/tangerine-dream-schiller-morgenstern.md) - One of Schiller’s latest albums features a beautiful collaboration with Thorsten Quaeschning from Tangerine Dream. Thorsten was first a pupil of Edgar Froese, and when the founder of the band left our world Thorsten became the keeper of traditions and the main face of the band. Morgenstern is an od…
- [Documentary / Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records](https://blog.12edit.com/rudeboy-the-story-of-trojan-records.md) - Today we have a magnificent documentary drama that, through the lens of the formation of reggae label Trojan Records, tells the story of the emergence of reggae music and how it became popular long before the arrival of Bob Marley. It's also a film about ska, rocksteady, rudeboys and skinheads. You…
- [Intelligent Drum‘n’Bass: Mixes of the best tracks by KMC, Blu Mar Ten, Future Engineers, Intense, Peshay, PFM, Artemis](https://blog.12edit.com/chasing-the-sun.md) - All is well in mixes with atmospheric jungle and intelligent drum‘n’bass classics, but the authors of these compilations often take only well-known records and don’t dig deep. As a result, they have identical tracks that keep on shuffling from set to set. Blick from Paderborn did the opposite: he s…
- [The samples of Calibre](https://blog.12edit.com/samples-of-calibre.md)
- [A brief history of Italo House](https://blog.12edit.com/italo-house.md) - At the end of the 1980s, house records, saturated with grasping piano parts, began to appear in the UK charts. In 1989, the genre received its anthem, the standard and best-selling track Ride on Time by the Italian band Black Box. In the homeland of the musicians, new labels, creators, and producti…
- [Gigi Masin Live](https://blog.12edit.com/gigi-masin-live-from-isolation.md) - Gigi Masin’s solo ambient concert, recorded in the spring of 2020, when everyone was quarantining at home, is like exhaling and relaxing among the endless chores before New Year’s Eve. And what’s so good about Masin’s lives is that they almost always contain 80% of unreleased material.
- [The Samples of Photek](https://blog.12edit.com/the-samples-of-photek.md)
- [Jungle duo Tom & Jerry and their samples](https://blog.12edit.com/tom-and-jerry-samples.md)
- [Manuel Göttsching. The man who invented guitar drone music](https://blog.12edit.com/manuel-goettsching.md)
- [The samples of High Contrast](https://blog.12edit.com/high-contrast-samples.md) - We continue to learn about the sources of inspiration of jungle and drum‘n’bass musicians. Without any words, requests or greetings, the YouTube channel Original Jungle Samples tells us what kind of instruments and voices we hear in our favourite tracks. Today—High Contrast. “I was 16/17 when I got…
- [Live: Underworld — Everything, everything](https://blog.12edit.com/underworld-everything-everything.md) - In the “Live” category, we have an hour and a half of Underworld, made from the band’s best performances in different venues as part of their 1999 tour in support of the Beaucoup Fish album. It’s the last live tour with the classic line-up: Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, and Darren Emerson. Together, they…
- [The samples of DJ Zinc](https://blog.12edit.com/samples-of-dj-zinc.md)
- [Propellerheads feat. Miss Shirley Bassey — History Repeating. A collaboration story](https://blog.12edit.com/propellerheads-history-repeating.md)
- [KLF — Chill Out. The story behind the first ambient house album of the rave era](https://blog.12edit.com/klf-chill-out.md)
- [A brief history of Speed Garage](https://blog.12edit.com/speed-garage.md) - Speed garage is a subgenre of UK garage, which appeared in the mid-90s, when, following the wishes of the club crowds, British DJs began playing records with American garage house (soul and gospel music sung to a dance rhythm) at high speed. The accelerated vocals sounded squeaky, so British musici…
- [York / Best 1998—2012](https://blog.12edit.com/york.md) - York started out from the fact that foreign friends of Jörg Stenzel (Jörg is a diminutive of the German name George) pronounced his name a little softer, in their own accent. After this, a duo was formed with this name—his brother Torsten, also Stenzel, came to help, the one who actively developed…
- [Documentary: The New Sound of Music](https://blog.12edit.com/the-new-sound-of-music.md) - New Sounds of Music is about the rise of electronic music. A charming presenter in a tweed jacket fascinatingly talks about how mechanised music has changed over time: from late Victorian organ and pianola, which played programmed tunes from wooden shafts and paper rolls to experiments with magneti…
- [Faithless — Reverence. A brief history of each track from the band’s debut album](https://blog.12edit.com/faithless-reverence.md)
- [Glossary: types of singles and albums](https://blog.12edit.com/single-album.md)

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