Throwback Thursdays Archives

Throwback Thursday – The Cheap DJ Mixers That Built a Generation of Bedroom DJs

Featured Throwback ThursdaysJune 25, 2026June 25, 2026

Everyone starts somewhere mediocre, and most of us started at the wrong end of an electronics shop. Mine was Tandy (Australia), which is what Maplin (UK) or Radio Shack (US)…

Throwback Thursday: Vestax’s VRX-2000 and the Dubplate You Could Make at Home

Featured Throwback ThursdaysJune 18, 2026June 18, 2026

Throwback Thursday this week takes us somewhere slightly odd. Not a record, not a club, but a machine. Every so often a piece of kit comes along that feels like…

Throwback Thursday: The Stanton SA-5, the battle mixer that banned the knob

Featured Throwback ThursdaysMay 28, 2026May 28, 2026

If you ever fancied a mixer that treated rotary controls like an ex who still had your hoodie, this one was for you. Once again, we did deep into that…

Throwback Thursday: 3 A.M. Eternal, Dead Sheep and a Million Quid, The KLF’s The White Room Revisited

Featured Throwback ThursdaysMay 14, 2026May 14, 2026

There are records you grow into, and there are records that arrive when you are ready for them. And then there is The KLF’s The White Room. It landed in…

John Digweed, GU019 Los Angeles: The Night America Finally Tuned In

Featured North America and Canada Throwback ThursdaysApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026

The Global Underground Archive · Global Underground 019 – John Digweed – Los Angeles There is a moment in every cultural shift where the room finally tunes in. For dance…

Throwback Thursday – Remember When We All Agreed a Monkey Was the Future of Music

Featured Throwback ThursdaysApril 23, 2026April 23, 2026

Throwback Thursday tends to reach for the good stuff. A classic twelve inch, a legendary warehouse, a night at Fabric when you still queued down the alley in the rain…

Throwback Thursday: How Gorillaz Made the Most Unlikely Record of 2001 and Got Away With It

Featured Throwback ThursdaysApril 9, 2026April 9, 2026

Some records arrive with a concept so odd that the music almost becomes secondary to the argument surrounding it. The debut album from Gorillaz was exactly that kind of record….

Throwback Thursday: The Technics SL-DZ1200 — Beautiful, Ambitious, and a Little Broken

Featured Throwback ThursdaysApril 2, 2026April 2, 2026

There are pieces of gear that divide a room, and the Technics SL-DZ1200 is one of them. Even now, mentioning it to the right crowd will get you a knowing…

Throwback Thursday: The Cassette Tapes That Became a Culture — Mark Farina’s Mushroom Jazz

Featured Throwback ThursdaysMarch 19, 2026March 19, 2026

There are mixes that do not simply play in the background. They shift something in the way you hear everything else. The Mushroom Jazz series by Mark Farina is that…

Sorry We’re Late: Decoded Finally Gives Daft Punk’s Discovery the Throwback Thursday It Deserves

Featured Throwback ThursdaysMarch 14, 2026March 14, 2026

Look, I’ll hold my hand up. How this one slipped through the Throwback Thursday net is genuinely beyond me. I think I was mowing the lawn. Whatever the excuse, on…

Before Pioneer Ruled the Booth, There Was the Denon DN-2000F

Featured Throwback ThursdaysFebruary 12, 2026February 12, 2026

There are pieces of DJ equipment that changed the game, and then there are pieces of DJ equipment that simply refused to die. The Denon DN-2000F was both. First unveiled…

Throwback Thursday – Timeless at 30: Goldie’s Masterpiece Still Defines the Drum and Bass Blueprint

Featured Throwback ThursdaysFebruary 5, 2026February 5, 2026

By no means am I a diehard drum and bass devotee. I could never do a night of just DnB / Jungle. But growing up in the 90s, raving to…

Richie Hawtin’s Minimal Masterclass: Revisiting Sheet One Three Decades On

Featured Throwback ThursdaysJanuary 22, 2026January 22, 2026

By 1993, techno had moved well beyond its first wave. The rave scene was pulling serious numbers into abandoned warehouses across the Midwest and Europe, while Warp’s Artificial Intelligence compilation…

Throwback Thursday – How Surrender Cemented the Chemical Brothers as All Time Greats

Featured Throwback ThursdaysJanuary 15, 2026January 15, 2026

There’s something instructive about the cover of Surrender. A solitary figure, arms aloft in total euphoria, captured at the 1976 Olympia Music Festival. Richard Young’s photograph, saturated in vibrant colour,…

Throwback Thursday – Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill at 39: The Controversial Masterpiece That Made Rap Go Mainstream

Featured Throwback ThursdaysJanuary 8, 2026January 6, 2026

Thirty nine years on from its release in November 1986, it still feels a bit surreal that three Jewish kids from New York managed to drop one of the most…

Illegal Frequencies: How Pirate Radio Gave Voice to the Underground and Changed Music Forever

Featured Throwback ThursdaysNovember 20, 2025November 20, 2025

For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re tuning into a frequency that shaped underground music culture in ways few institutions ever could. Pirate radio wasn’t just about broadcasting without a licence…

Throwback Thursday: Nick Warren’s GU018 Amsterdam, 25 Years Later

Featured Throwback ThursdaysNovember 13, 2025November 14, 2025

The year 2000 was a curious time for dance music. Y2K had come and gone without collapsing civilisation, the superclubs were reaching peak saturation, and progressive house was experiencing a…

Bristol’s Slow Burn: How Massive Attack Rewrote the Dance Music Rulebook in 1991

Featured Throwback ThursdaysOctober 16, 2025October 16, 2025

In our 8th Throwback Thursday, we revist one of the most iconic albums ever produced……..Massive Attack Blue Lines! There’s something quietly interesting about April 1991. While Seattle’s grunge scene was…

Breakbeats and Backlash: The Prodigy’s Fat of the Land

Featured Throwback ThursdaysOctober 9, 2025October 9, 2025

Number 7 in our Throwback Series and we take a look at The Prodigy’s Fat of the Land. By the summer of 1997, the UK rave scene had transformed beyond…

Daft Punk – Homework, The Blueprint That Rewrote Electronic Music’s DNA

Featured Throwback ThursdaysSeptember 25, 2025September 25, 2025

As we launch into Episide 6 of our Throwback Thursday series, let’s have a proper chat about a record that fundamentally changed electronic music, shall we? January 1997 was a…