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.

The first time you encounter the warm, rootsy swell of James Yorkston and The Athletes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that their songs spring from folksy origins. The truth is somewhat different...

His name's Hanuman, he's in a band called Monkey Steak, and he's just killed a fucking great pheasant.

Spannered meets the Warlock of south London, and is relieved to find he's neither an oathbreaker nor a male witch.

Seasoned explorer in the outer regions of braindance, Chris Jeffs sets sail with his spanking new net label.

Dub? On a laptop? In Leipzig? Spannered meets Disrupt, supernice co-founder of netlabel Jahtari.

Love the smell of warm vinyl in the morning? Russ Parsons, co-founder of London's Uncharted Audio imprint, talks to Spannered about his fondness of the black stuff and of the label's current Signals project.

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.

Fresh from a trip to France, where, along with colleague John Aquaviva, he introduced Final Scratch digital DJ technology to the world, Richie Hawtin unplugs from the machine to interface with Overload Media.

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.

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

Mention 'tribal techno' and it won't be long before the name Oliver Ho crops up — a man whose benchmark nineties productions made him a leader in the field, a position he retains to this day. Yet his artistic agenda has always been much broader, as Overload discovered during this interview back in 2000.

Lone Swordsman and respected rotter Andrew Weatherall talks to Alex Ward about Zen, electro and the upside of guitars and dance music.

Lone Swordsman and respected rotter Andrew Weatherall talks to Overload about Zen, electro and the upside of guitars and dance music.