Zone Magazine Issue 037 Spring 2023
Well Folks, Lots of great things happening here at Zone HQ just for you lot, so keep coming back! Well its Spring 2023, we have a packed issue with all the regulars, and lots of interviews! We would just like to say RIP to our brother Pete Van Payne who passed away recently. He will be missed for his music, his radio show, work. an good soul! In our feature interviews in this issue we talk to cover superstar LEMON8. Harry Lemon aka LEMON8 has been at the forefront of dance music both as a DJ and producer, whilst producing a soundtrack of a generation at the same time. Model8 - his first ever produced track from 1993 - is now being recognized as a classic and landmark in Techno and dance music in general. The Inner Sanctuary Sessions double album, solely consisting of his original music and remixes is now recognized as a highlight in Progressive House Music with tracks like New York, New York and Lose Control just to name a few. The latter was even voted all-time best record on the iconic Bedrock label in 2020 by the fans by a landslide.
Well Folks, Lots of great things happening here at Zone HQ just for you lot, so keep coming back! Well its Spring 2023, we have a packed issue with all the regulars, and lots of interviews! We would just like to say RIP to our brother Pete Van Payne who passed away recently. He will be missed for his music, his radio show, work. an good soul!
In our feature interviews in this issue we talk to cover superstar LEMON8. Harry Lemon aka LEMON8 has been at the forefront of dance music both as a DJ and producer, whilst producing a soundtrack of a generation at the same time. Model8 - his first ever produced track from 1993 - is now being recognized as a classic and landmark in Techno and dance music in general. The Inner Sanctuary Sessions double album, solely consisting of his original music and remixes is now recognized as a highlight in Progressive House Music with tracks like New York, New York and Lose Control just to name a few. The latter was even voted all-time best record on the iconic Bedrock label in 2020 by the fans by a landslide.
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Words Paul Newhouse<br />
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Photography Sam Hayat, Rowanna Lacey & David Gonzalez<br />
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Connect https://paperecordings.com/<br />
Paper Recordings is a Manchester record company that played a<br />
significant role in British club culture. It released contemporary<br />
electronic music from an international roster of recording artists<br />
integrating the genres of house, funk, jazz, techno and soul. Along<br />
with Nuphonic, Glasgow Underground Recordings and 20/20<br />
Vision recordings, it is credited as one of the key labels that drove<br />
the popularity of the Nu-Disco genre in the late 1990s and 2000s.<br />
Robodisco became Paper Recording's most recognised club night, hosting dance<br />
parties between 1996 and 2005 at venues including Sankeys Soap, Paradise<br />
Factory, Planet K, South Nightclub, PJ Bells, with associated nights Sonic Tonic, Out<br />
to Lunch at The Roadhouse and State respectively.<br />
Founded in 1993 by Pete Jenkinson, Ben Davis, Miles Hollway, Elliot Eastwick,<br />
Andrew Gough and Stephen Page while all working at The Hacienda and Hard<br />
Times club nights. The label has commercially released over 2000 recordings,<br />
created by over 500 artists, producers, and remixers in over 50 countries across<br />
imprints Paper Recordings, Paper Disco, Paper Wave, Repap Records and We Are<br />
Woodville Records.<br />
It released the debut album in 1997 from Tromsø band Those Norwegians,<br />
comprising Rune Lindbæk, Ole Johan Mjøs and Torbjørn Brundtland who went on to<br />
form Röyksopp with Svein Berge. This album was titled Kaminsky Park, a pun on<br />
Comiskey Park that witnessed the Disco Demolition Night protests in 1979 and with<br />
its LP artwork depicting a burnt and warped 12" vinyl.<br />
Paper continues to be one of the world’s best-loved independent record labels,<br />
operating as a thriving cottage industry. We have been pushing the creative<br />
envelope since 1994. They have released over 2000 tracks created by over 500<br />
artists, producers, and remixers in over 50 countries. Their style ranges from deep<br />
house and disco to Balearic and leftfield on its imprints. The label has evolved to<br />
incorporate Paper Vision Films, which made the award-winning Northern Disco<br />
Lights with two films currently in production and critically acclaimed podcasts Paper<br />
Air Waves & Paper Talk.
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