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.

Ratboy Pimp got on the blower to Autechre's Rob Brown to find out more about their curation of the All Tomorrows Parties event in April 2003.

When Underground Resistance heard of Sony Music's plans to release a tone-by-tone remake of DJ Rolando's famous Jaguar track, they countered the corporate giants with spectacular success, as Rolando explained to Overload's Nick Doherty.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

You don't need to look across the pond to find quality underground instrumental hip hop... M-XL talks to Brighton's Contortionist and Third Party about their new eps and their decidedly laid-back approach.

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

Mr Trick and Wax Factor, the DJs behind Resonance FM's mighty Rhythm Incursions shows, have been name checking Musicalbear's download section for a while now... So Musicalbear returned the favour.