Kate Stephenson, Author at Decoded Magazine

Kate Stephenson

Why there’s not a sequin in sight at Late Nite Tuff Guy’s disco revolution…

Feature Articles Featured InterviewsDecember 10, 2019December 10, 2019

From being handed a white label of The Bells by Jeff Mills in 1996, to why he is praying for rain for next year’s Glastonbury, reviving the 70s with Salsoul…

“We progressed into breaks and shapeshifted into electro – we went funky, we went dark, we went proggy” – Infusion

Feature Articles Featured InterviewsNovember 12, 2019November 12, 2019

The year is 2004 on a dancefloor far away. The girls are in those cargo pants with flappy buckle strings twinned with spaghetti strap singlets. The boys are throwing shapes…

Celebrating 20 releases on Beat & Path Records – Why chocolate souffle, freaky music videos, and regular journeys into outer space are all important when you’re running a record label

Feature Articles Featured InterviewsMay 24, 2019May 24, 2019

Ever wondered the secret recipe to making a tasty record label? For Uone, head honcho of Beat & Path, it’s a secret blend of community spirit, organically sprouted creativity and…

Renewing the faith: Stargazing, stomping and smashing negative perceptions at Rabbits Eat Lettuce

Australia Event ReviewsMay 15, 2019May 15, 2019

I was beginning to feel a little disillusioned with how our beloved festival scene was being treated after it had suffered so many brutal king hits in the last few…

Sampling the Sex Pistols, dissing koalas and never taking your foot off the gas: we crank the froth-o-meter up to full with The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett

Australia Feature Articles Featured Interviews NewsJanuary 31, 2019February 2, 2019

It’s the day before The Prodigy’s ‘No Tourists’ tour kicks off in Australia. I naturally find a tired Liam on the other end. It’s clear they’ve certainly got a soft…

Start as you mean to go on: Why Let Them Eat Cake knocked it out the park

Australia Event Reviews Featured NewsJanuary 14, 2019February 2, 2019

Going out on New Year’s Eve is so *ahem* last year. Try telling #newyearnewyou that as you take another swig from the bottle of bubbles at 12.01 and your friends…

Queue jumping at Berghain, the Melbourne-Manchester connection and Hennessey in the lab with Zed Bias and DRS; all in a day’s work for the half time dnb/beats producer

Australia Featured InterviewsJanuary 2, 2019February 2, 2019

Ben ‘Safire’ Finocchiaro had spent the day of the infamous Melbourne floods doing mix downs in his studio. ‘After my time away in 2017, we came home to a fallen…

Basking in the glory of uone’s recent Balance mix, Kate Stephenson has a giggle with the cowboy of Rancho Relaxo about chihuahuas, Nick Fouquet hats, Steve Bug and what happened with Adam Freeland after the blood moon.

Australia Feature Articles Interviews NewsOctober 24, 2018October 24, 2018

‘Spring is in the air,’uone typed into Messenger with a flourish. ‘I can smell the creativity.’ As he duly changed the colour of our Facebook conversation to neon fairy floss…

River dancing Germans, stage invasions by Goldie and playing ‘how many people you can fit in a studio’ with Greg from Ulterior Motive

Australia Feature Articles News OceaniaJuly 25, 2018July 25, 2018

Greg from Ulterior Motive may have underestimated the Australian winter. ‘Really?’ Bring a coat?’ he asks as I tell him his upcoming tour of the southern hemisphere will be chillier…