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.

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.

Nick Doherty talks to Gilles Peterson — Radio 1 missionary, nervous perfectionist, and self-confessed spinner of ‘weirdy records’.

Overload's Nick Craddock explores the boundless body of creativity that is Matthew Herbert.

In our ever-advancing internet age, the relationship between environment and output is supposedly diminishing. Byte-sized files flash along...

The underground spirit of contemporary electronica is alive and well in St Petersburg, Russia thanks to EU, otherwise known as Alexander Zaitsev and Ilya Baramiya. Gunfight Lucas met them during their visit to the UK in 2000.

Jeff Mills is many things. He's foremost a DJ and producer, but also a broadcaster, label owner and sound engineer. He's been the Wizard, the...

Tom Magic Feet speaks to US-based producer John Tejada about his third album, The Matrix Of Us.

What does it take to boggle the mind of techno producer Max Duley? Overload traveled to the leafy roads of Ealing to find out.

Overload Media 's John Osselaer talked at length to techno pioneer and Detroit native Blake Baxter, back in 2001.