THE MAGAZINE

Stories

Features, interviews and archive pieces. The reading half of Street Sounds.

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In this issue

Wembley, 1986. Twenty thousand kids, four turntables and a sound the country had never heard on a stage that size.

Nine years of catalogue, scanned at 1200dpi and opened to the public for the first time.

Ahead of the Jazz Cafe date, the man who started it talks about landing at Heathrow in 1983.

The Electro series did not follow a market. It made one, twelve tracks at a time.

Forty-four years of licensing, pressing and arguing with distributors.

Airbrush, chrome type and a lot of black. Where the look came from.