Knowledge entries

Tom Churchill recommends Covers 33: "I've been ordering from them for years, highly recommended - the website may look a bit dated but their service and delivery times are spot...

Dave Parkin: Sennheiser HD-200s are recommended - only 50 quid and sound great for home listening as well as DJ (ab)use.

the easiest music to learn beatmatching with is some very minimal four/​four house. or anything minimal.

I guess this applies to "heavily soiled articles" like beer and coke etc. The most suggested way is luke warm (not hot) soapy water and a very soft cloth and rinse under luke...

You can find a good guide to all the different online record shops at More Music.

Fletcher Munson 1-10KW systems avalable. Martin enclosures with Crest amplification. Technics or Vestax mixers and turntables.

Um, not sure if I'm grabbing the wrong end of the stick here but Drexciya is nothing to do with Atkins/​Saunderson.

To be honest I'm very suprised to hear people saying it never took off to a huge extenet. It was smaller, later and always over-shadowed by the English scene but it was always...

Electro-Funk is undoubtedly the most misunderstood of all UK Dance genres, yet probably the most vital with regards to its overall influence.

The Twisted Wheel club was just a dank dark cellar of a club with long corridors and a low ceiling. I cannot recall all of the dj`s names without reference but the main one was...

Useful books giving different `overviews' within the academic study of popular music and DJ culture.

Weatherall 93 - Second ever essential mix, first time I'd hear the beatless mix of Smokebelch, the fact it was mixed into Spastik was slight bonus.

Don't buy a ready-made PC as you will pay double the cost of the actual hardware. If you ain't handy with PCs yourself get a mate who is to build you one.

Here's the gen... Traktor - DJ tool, good for DJing with MP3s so I'm told. Haven't used it myself. Acid - Great for doing full length pre-recorded DJ sets and cut n shuts.

From: Jim Dummett i've found a solution to the mp3 gaps thing, assuming that you're doing the ripping yourself.

From: john/​/​peanut Message: > Vince wrote: > and now on a music-related note for once, does anyone know of any good > (and preferably free) MP3 mixing software, with...

By Dr Hillegonda Rietveld, South Bank University, London. Over the last year, I've started DJing again, thanks to Raya, a collective of DJs who put on gigs in several places,...

To celebrate UK-Dance's birthday, its members contributed their favourite singles and albums from the first ten years of its life. Here's how the voting went.

These are the top threads for each of the first ten years of UK-Dance's history. 1992-1993 Universe's spring rave in Wiltshire: "10 Towering tents of entertainment, 5...

The Beginning In 1992, the Internet was a very different place. Only a few people outside of universities and research labs had access and there really wasn't much of the web...

There are moments in dance you remember for ever for me seeing Suddi perform "hardcore uproar" live was one of those moments...

UKD = UK-Dance WTF = what the fuck AFAIK = as far as i know BTW = by the way IYKWIM = if you know what i mean?

In short: Darren Emerson was once subscribed to UKD. Tomato are heavily linked with Underworld. Tomato made an advert for the Telegraph, which used an Underworld tune.

What is UK-Dance? UK-Dance is a community based around dance music culture in the United Kingdom. It operates through a web site with discussions also carried on an e-mail...

Here's a few hints specific to UK-Dance that you might find useful, especially if you're new. They aren't formal rules that will get you expelled if you break them, but if you...