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

Theresa Green journeys to the UK Westcountry to meet Jamie Anderson, the man behind Bristol's budding Artform label

Clear was one of the most respected imprints for electro-funk and emotive electronica during the nineties, releasing material by Plaid, Jedi Knights, Dr Rockit, Metamatics and Morgan Geist, among others. Then silence

Dave Stelfox braves a chilly Brighton seafront to put questions to Ian Simmonds about his Juryman album, The Hill

Mention 'tribal techno' and it won't be long before the name Oliver Ho crops up. Yet his artistic agenda has always been much broader, as Overload discovered during this interview back in 2000

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

Making waves with rattling rimshots and gargantuan bass, Cologne resident Burnt Friedman (aka Bernd Friedmann) has been shaking up dub-wise sensi-bilities with an album recorded at a secret hideaway off the New Zealand coast

You don't need to be a clued-up-to-the-eyeballs junglist to realise the extent of Certificate 18's influence in the evolution of drum 'n' bass – the label that introduced the world to Photek, Digital and Source Direct

Luke Vibert gets cheese caught in his goatee as he goes head to head with celebrated pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole on a collaborative album project. Hawaiian hip hop anyone?