DJ Rush
We’re not luddites, we just feel you deserve better than some unsatisfying algorithmic advice when it comes to music. This is the third edition of our new Low Culture subscriber’s newsletter, Organic Intelligence, which features tQ’s favourite people taking a deep dive into their record collections to offer you DJ bag gold, Discogs bargains and all-back-to-mine nuggets. This month Joe Muggs unearths five gems from the world of wonky techno. You can listen to (an alternative mix of) this Organic Intelligence playlist on Spotify, Apple and Tidal (and remember that all your monthly playlists, as well as your exclusive essays, can be found on the Low Culture Quietus page). To get access to the Organic Intelligence newsletter, you need to sign up to our subscriber system via the Steady checkout below.
Listen to the modified wonky techno playlist on Spotify, Apple and Tidal (and remember that all your monthly playlists, as well as your exclusive essays, can be found on the Low Culture Quietus page here).
Genre names are the strangest thing. Whoever would’ve thought, after all, that party hosts coaxing dancers with “a hip-hop, a hibbit, hibby-dibby” would create a name that would dominate global culture almost half a century later? Now, OK, sure, “wonky techno” is no hip hop in terms of popularity to say the very least. But it’s still funny to think of a single, simple, silly moment, some time in the mid-late 90s – th…
