The Mixmag 25th birthday cover shoot

[Yannick]

To celebrate our 25th birthday – yes, 25th birthday! – Mixmag has shot an amazing, foldout cover with the 25 biggest names in electronic music.

Featuring Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx, LCD Soundsystem, The Prodigy, Moby, Mylo, Richie Hawtin, Roisin Murphy, Dizzee Rascal, Paul van Dyk, Goldie, Sven Vath, Felix Da Housecat, Erick Morillo, Sasha, Faithless, Underworld and more, it’s the biggest dance music magazine cover ever!
The issue goes on sale in the UK on 17th April, 2008, but you can watch some sneaky behind-the-scenes footage from the cover shoot here. Plus amazing in-depth interviews with the cover stars.



http://www.mixmag.net/25years

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Yannick

To celebrate our 25th birthday – yes, 25th birthday! – Mixmag has shot an amazing, foldout cover with the 25 biggest names in electronic music.

Featuring Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx, LCD Soundsystem, The Prodigy, Moby, Mylo, Richie Hawtin, Roisin Murphy, Dizzee Rascal, Paul van Dyk, Goldie, Sven Vath, Felix Da Housecat, Erick Morillo, Sasha, Faithless, Underworld and more, it’s the biggest dance music magazine cover ever!
The issue goes on sale in the UK on 17th April, 2008, but you can watch some sneaky behind-the-scenes footage from the cover shoot here. Plus amazing in-depth interviews with the cover stars.



http://www.mixmag.net/25years

Right: Fatboy Slim, Mylo, Roisin Murphy, Paul van Dyk, Erick Morillo?

[matt]

Originally Posted by Leon

Right: Fatboy Slim, Mylo, Roisin Murphy, Paul van Dyk, Erick Morillo?

sorry but if you're going for huge contributions to dance music over the last 25 years i don't think you can argue with Fatboy Slim, PvD & Erik Morillo being there. (Not so sure about Mylo & Roisin Murphy but can understand the rest).

They might not be your cup of tea but all had huge influence etc on dance music...

[dubman]

mylo's cool and all but how was that not just a flash in the pan?
come on now.
FS' influence was just somehow dumbing everything down so that frat boys here in the US would accept dance music at parties without yelling "WHAT IS THIS GAY FAGGOT SHIT"
i forgot who said that originally but it couldnt be more true. and that coming from someone with a big soft spot for his first two albums
if we recognize that it'd be cool, but otherwise it's a bit of a poke in the eye.

otherwise it should be fun to look at
i'd rather they got sasha rather than PVD because sasha at least did one good thing (xpander ep) but again, they cant all be winners...

[big screen satellite]

a nice idea

and wow 25 years...

but they have been going at least 8 years too long - mixmag is not relevant anymore - and they are clinging onto the last remnants of the dance industry who buy magazines... if you want to find out about fashion and clubs then its ok, but for info on music and artists - well its too much bigging up shit trance djs now

shame Muzik, which was a much better magazine in the end didn't keep going... Mixmag was good in 1990-1995 shame 25 years hasn't aged them well in my opinion

i'll buy this nostalgic look back for old times sake

[matt]

Originally Posted by dubman

i'd rather they got sasha rather than PVD because sasha at least did one good thing (xpander ep) but again, they cant all be winners...

I disagree. Sure PVD hasn't really done anything of note for about a decade but in the early nineties he helped pioneer the trance sound when it was still fresh and exciting and a whole new genre for dance music. His early MFS work is excellent and his X-Mix 1 mix still sounds great today

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by matt

I disagree. Sure PVD hasn't really done anything of note for about a decade but in the early nineties he helped pioneer the trance sound when it was still fresh and exciting and a whole new genre for dance music. His early MFS work is excellent and his X-Mix 1 mix still sounds great today

both sasha and PVD have had good times and bad... and both are worthy of note as pioneers in 25 years of Mixmag's history... i agree PVD's early MFS stuff was awesome - ppl should really check out some of the early PVD stuff... (and Sasha IS included here too, its not PVD instead of Sasha)

and i personally love the Vorsrung Dyk Techique Album he did....

if we're questioning peoples influence, Goldie is a better candidate... his output of quality was really limited to one album, imo

[patrick]

I really like Moloko/Roisin Murphy so that's that! I don't really care if she wouldn't be included on this list, as she doesn't really fit, grouping anyone with UW is a sham!

[//\/\/]

over the past year or so, mixmag has got back to something like its old form as far as the writing's concerned - it's got its attention-span back after it's early-millenium wobble and trance-fixation. i was never a fan of muzik - it was too quick to jump on a bandwaggon imo - or if there was nothing going on it was always trying to create The Next Big Thing (taking its lead from melody maker...)

mixmag isn't what it was; but then again; nor is 'the scene'...

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

WTF.

New Order?
D.Summer?