“Your brain needs to be wired a certain way to do it. I don’t even think it’s about confidence, you just have to have no fear in what you’re about to try next. I’m not afraid to make mistakes. I’m not a machine.”
Tag: Underground Resistance
For the record: The sound and vision of Eamonn Doyle’s Dublin
Few artists in the early days of techno had a long-term projection, aside from an abstract idea they were making the music of the future. Legacies were for classic rock bands, and even a 10-year […]
Robert Hood interview: ‘You can’t escape your vision’
Robert Hood is an artist who’s always flipping things. He’s a pioneer of austere, minimal techno who releases gospel house as Floorplan; The ‘Minister of Information’ in revolutionary techno act Underground Resistance who now preaches […]
Jeff Mills interview: ‘Techno feeds a basic human urge’:
The Halloween bank holiday in Dublin is always a big weekend for club gigs, but Jeff Mills is the only techno guy who’ll be turning up to his gig in a tuxedo with his 909 […]
Techno for an answer: Underground Resistance – Panic (1991)
This’ll be a facepalm for vinyl DJs who rage about hipsters buying records without playing them. But last week I found an Underground Resistance 12-inch in a pile and played it for the first time […]
Still bringing the Noise: Dave Clarke interview
IT’S hard to single out anyone in the last 20 years who’s done more for techno’s onward march than Dave Clarke. While some veteran DJs coast along, dining out on their classics and releasing retrospectives, Clarke […]
The artist in residence: Jeff Mills interview
When techno first rewired the late 80s counterculture, few could’ve predicted the gradual shift from studios and basement clubs in Detroit, to art galleries and classical concert halls. Techno was more ‘other’ than Kraftwerk’s prophetic […]
