Robert Hood's seminal works on Axis and M-Plant paved the way for the wave of muscular minimalism that flooded techno clubs during the late nineties. As Surgeon once remarked, 'When Hood released his pivotal Minimal Nation EP in 1993, it was like a bomb went off'. In a rare interview back in 2001, John Osselaer spoke with the Detroit don for Overload Media.

Vernon Crane meets enigmatic Argentinian renaissance woman, Rosario Blefari.

When SCSI-9 created Digital Russian for Berlin's Force Tracks, the album won them comparison to Metro Area among others. Overload spoke to Anton Kubikov and Maxim Milyutenko in 2003 about their debut LP and life in Russia.

Laurent Fintoni takes a deep breath and dives into the world of bass operator Paul Rose, aka Scuba, the man behind the ever-evolving Hotflush label.

With his armoury of bagpipes, Burberry, Michael Jackson samples and plenty of noise, anarchic Brightonion Shitmat gives us an insight into his...

Proprietor of Noodles, the ‘Stupidest Recording Organisation in The World’, Si Begg is one of dance music's most idiosyncratic movers and shakers. Overload caught up with the much sought-after producer prior to the release of the Noodles compilation, The Death Of Cool Part 2.

The very title of Sketchie's debut, Rain By High Lantern, casts light upon his whole project. Picture, if you can, a lantern held high on a...

Since its inception almost ten years ago, Lost - run by Steve Bicknell and partner Sheree Rashit - has become one of the longest running and globally influential events in the techno calendar, pioneering the deep percussive sound from which much of the music within today’s scene derives.

Athens, Georgia is a town often associated with the indie-pop melodies of REM, but it also happens to be home to one of techno’s most promising new talents.

REM may be the biggest musical export of Athens, Georgia, but over the last decade Stewart Walker has been putting the town on the electronic music map with his deeply hypnotic techno productions.

I didn’t set out to find information on nano-technology and atom bomb physics, but when I entered the word ‘subhead’ into a search...

A ten-foot man bestrides the Royal Festival Hall stage like a colossus, clad from head-to-toe in an enormous white outfit. He is thrashing about...

Surgeon describes his third album as being 'very heavy, direct and physical' — just what you'd expect from a record titled Body Request.

Musicalbear's Vernon Crane finds out if NYC's Team Shadetek have grown out of making beats out of brillo pads.

Collaborating with artists such as Beth Orton, Urban Species and Koop over a year spanning 30 years, Musicalbear catches up with 'the forgotten prince of Chicago soul', Terry Callier.

From humble studio tea-boy beginnings, to nineties techno phenomena The Advent, Cisco Ferreira has been a driving force behind dance music production for well over a decade. He's experienced the whole freakshow, and enjoyed every minute of it — well, not quite... Following a logical spilt from long-term gigging partner Colin McBean, Cisco Ferreira turns down the mixing desk and lets off some steam for Overload Media.