Writing

I currently contribute reviews to both UK indie mag The Fly and, on occasion, the US dance blog Beatportal. I used to be a club reviewer for the much-missed British dance magazine Muzik (they gave me my first music job) and also wrote for the Welsh Music Foundation's Sound Nation. Here are a few pieces from the archive...

  • February 5, 2008

  • Pioneers of electronic music #2: Steve Reich

  • Published by Beatportal

    Steve Reich (b. New York City, NY 1936) is one of four universally recognised pioneers of the musical minimalist movement. Developing in America from the mid-1960s, minimalism paved the way for a wide spectrum of musical activity, including house, techno and electro. Enormously influential on a generation of musicians and producers, Reich’s beautifully repetitive compositions continue to sell CDs and concert tickets by the bucketload. (more…)