The techno club nights co-founder kicks off a five-part series on how club culture has changed over the past two decades, with a look at Manchester in 1994
When we started the club night Bugged Out in November 1994, I didnt know if it would even last until that Christmas. Twenty years later and Im writing this, the first of five pieces detailing the ever-mutating club scene weve been involved in.
That year was certainly a fertile time for dance music, an umbrella term that encompassed everything from house and techno to emerging sounds including drumnbass, big beat and trip-hop. In 1993, Paul Benney and I had launched Jockey Slut, a fanzine in Manchester to reflect the burgeoning techno scene. It had finally started to reach a wider audience, with the likes of Underworld and Aphex Twin injecting some much-needed charisma into a previously faceless genre. Inkies such as NME still ghettoised techno, bafflingly finding bands such as Chapterhouse more interesting than Karl Hyde singing about skyscrapers. With Jockey Slut, we could put Hyde on the cover and give Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers their first interviews.
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by John Burgess via Electronic music | The Guardian
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