For Mike Paradinas the need to make beautiful and crazy music is paramount. The need to explain it isn’t, as Overload’s Richard Wilkes discovers.

Coinciding with the release of his mix album on Tresor, Overload's Nick Craddock caught up with Mr 'fingers in pies', Matthew Herbert, shortly after his live appearance at Fabric in August 2000.

Many record labels lay claim to eclecticism in the realm of electronic music, yet few fulfil the brief as genuinely as Tony Morley's Leaf imprint. Theresa Green met up with the label boss in the garden of a leafy Brixton boozer back in 2000.

Lawrence Burden of legendary techno triumverate Octave One has been a driving force in Detroit music since establishing the 430 West label with his brothers in 1991. John Osselaer spoke to him in 2000 for Overload Media.

Tom Magic Feet talks to Roman techno lynchpin Marco Passarani about his 6 Katun album and the coming of age for his Nature Records imprint.

A key member of Underground Resistance, James Pennington aka Suburban Knight was responsible for seminal techno releases such as The Groove and The Art of Stalking. Overload’s Belgian correspondent caught up with him in Liege in 2000, where the Detroit knight talked about the early days, UR and keeping it real.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Over half a decade has passed since the first release on James Ruskin’s Blueprint. In that time, he and Oliver Ho, the two artists to record...

From breakneck-speed beats and bass to emotive ambience within the space of one release, this imprint boasts a level of artistic freedom that most...

John Osselaer was inspired by his trip to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000 and knew that Alan Oldham - one of the few Detroit DJs who spins in the US more than Europe - would have a word or two to say on the city of techno legend.

Think of Detroit techno and DJ Bone might not be high on your list of luminaries. As part of the city’s second wave of producers, Bone's presence in the UK has been largely limited to persistent DJing visits, through which he has fostering a hardcore following to his many excellent productions.

There is a grouping of ex-rock terrorists who, while largely ignored by the media and left out of musical fashions, have remained perhaps England's...

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.