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30 June 2003
MUZIK MAGAZINE TO CLOSE

IPC ignite! is to close its monthly dance magazine, Muzik, with
effect from the August issue on sale July 9.

Advertisement and copy sale revenues have declined in parallel with
the decline of this sector of the Music market, to the point that the
title is no longer economically viable.

Tim Brooks, managing director of IPC ignite! – which also publishes
the market-leading rock weekly NME and the award-wining music &
movies monthly Uncut - says: "We have a very talented and dedicated
team on Muzik, and I want to thank them all for their hard work and
their grace under pressure. Sadly, nothing they could do in isolation
was going to turn around this sector of the Music market. Just like
the broader Music industry of which we're proud to be a part, we have
to channel our resources to where the consumers are."

The closure will result in no more than ten redundancies, and every
effort will be made to find alternative jobs for all those affected.

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

:-( they had some great cds, rip muzik!!

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I know why I stopped reading it. Too many pictures, too many DJs, too many articles about drugs and largin' it in Ibiza. Too many mediocre mix CDs on the cover. Not enough about Muzik.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

that's really too bad, they were pretty much the only uk dance mag of late that tried to get OUT of doing the whole 'larging it in ibiza' deadend bullshit. rip

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i still like mixmag cover cds better!!

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever its faults,jockey slut is out of the whole larging it in ibiza deadend bullshit
the reaction to muzik here always seemed to me to be an example of ilm double think-it was the dance nme,in every single way
because i like dance more than indie,i liked it better,they sometimes had some good stuff,and good cds,but overall it was very nme-ish and clearly modelled on it

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope IPC are working through their round of magazine closures in alphabetical order...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

shit, i was just starting to enjoy muzik, the writing was a bit patchy, but i can't fault the records they chose to review and the cover mount CDS where the best about..

― jk_ (jk@gabba), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

more proof that nobody else likes what I like. Muzik magazine has been my favorite for the past 6 months! It's like it was too good!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, this is sad.

Robin I don't think it was like the NME - if anything it reminded me of the NME back when I first read it, though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Musik had certainly pulled it's socks up. But I'm sure it's only the first to go

― nick.K (nick.K), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't think it was much cop, but some of those cover CDs WERE ace.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Serves them right for putting Puff Daddy on the cover.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the market-leading rock weekly NME

it certainly isn';t market-leading in terms of sales, when a 'specialist' rock mag like Kerrang! trounces it in circulation every single week.

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what trife said

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

those twits at IPC !

What they should have done,

get rid of films from Uncut and get rid of Alt.country/ Americana focus.
take the best bits of Muzik
take the best bits of Uncut
look back at what made Melody Maker work so well in the late 80s
and then rebrand this combined new magazine as an essential music monthly ...using Melody Maker as the brand !

as I understand from sources in the past 12 months both IPC and EMAP intend to launch new magazines within the music sector.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Martian in sentimentally reverencing the dim and distant vanished past shockah!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i'm fucked now - no paid writing work in uk! thank heavens for the day job is all i can say...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

MediaGuardian.co.uk report The party's over for Muzik

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Shame - Muzik almost always had excellent CDs.... and while it concentrated too much on the glam nasty towny clubs, it was pretty well written and well designed.

PLEASE let the NME go down next...

― russ t, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i think martian has nailed it. ipc - sign him up!

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

coincidentally, i've bought Muzik more in the last 7 months than i had in the 2 years prior

first 30 issues of Muzik were brilliant - a real education for me. in 1995 i still had no real idea who Derrick May really was or why he was so important, i'd never heard Hardfloor's 'Acperience', 'Sueno Latino', didnt know about the Heavenly Social, didnt really like glitzy house music, didnt appreciate Kraftwerk much, knew my onions about the rave and subsequent jungle scene and that was about it.

Muzik changed that with witty and knowledgeable writing from the likes of Calvin Bush, Rob Da Bank, Ben Turner - i had quite an education from reading the whole thing. despite some initial resistance ("what is the big fuckin deal with Junior Vasquez?") they won me over.

they kicked the other dance mags up the arse for me somewhat. DJ was okay but lacked depth, Mixmag irritated me (probably because of the infamous Prodigy 'killed rave' cover) and their incessant drugs over music stance. Muzik was the document of my fascination with dance music between '95 and 2001 so its a shame its no longer 'successful' enough to sustain.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

here i've got an idea - someone should get a hold of muzik's best writers (abt 4 spring to mind), start up a magazine focusing purely on music, going in-depth (both culturally, so yeah there's still lifestyle stuff but it aint just about getting cabbaged in the balearics, and conceptually), do it well, make a point of hiring the best writers around on these subjects (off the top of my head matos, tim finney, phil sherburne, jess, me(!), nick doherty etc, plus give cozen some space!!!) expect circulation to be smaller, but concentrate on putting something really quality out and i reckon it'd be a success... i don't think anyone has ever done this at all (certainly not Jockey Slut) and i remain convinced that a successful magazine abt non-rock music doesn't necessarily need to be like Smash Hits for clubbers or as crapulently dimwitted as the Slut...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked Muzik, loved the free CD's (the only reason I would buy Muzik was if the free CD interested me enuff) and the singles review section was pretty good. Yeah, it was certainly better then Mixmag too. Why does everyone hate Jockey Slut here? Ok, I've only read it once (I think it was the January issue of this year, had Mike Skinner on the front) but I'm just curious as to why people dislike it.

― Michael B, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

dave i've got that tape of that hip hop docu btw - can only be loaned for a week or so tho - how are we gonna do it?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i think jockey slut is quite good,well not really,but the best of a bad lot
i don't see how any criticism of jockey slut couldn't apply to muzik

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

don't think everyone does hate it, just me... i fingd it misses the boat consistently with regard to hardcore/street/and cruscailly BLACK music, thus making it redundant as a magazine the purports to be on the cutting edge of electronic/dance music and not a little suspect in it criteria for the inclusin of music. now i'm not saying it's knowingly racist, just far too white-boy, middle-class and hung up on the whole acid house canon to know good music when it hears it. actually, that's wrong coz there's so much it doesn't hear at all. plus i hate the way eveything's a joke APART from Detroit techno. it's dull, limited and blinkered yet still thinks it's the coolest kid on the block, i loathe it with a passion. still, it does have some good writers, a couple of them friends of mine and both criminally underused...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh also,that guardian article says nme,kerrang,uncut and mojo have all had increased circulation recently
i knew this was the case with kerrang,but is that right about the others?

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't see how any criticism of jockey slut couldn't apply to muzik

ahem, muzik did not wilfully ignore both jungle and uk garage just coz they didn't fit in with some stunted, cretinous and retrograde musical worldview they deemed important over everything else

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i suppose-i was more thinking of the actualy style of writing,which is very sub nme,rather than what they cover
also,i've only read issues of either from this year,so i suppose my criticism is only really applicable to the last few issues

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice idea Dave. With the internet becoming a growing resource for music fans, the mags are being pushed further and further into the background. Therefore, editors are being forced to come up with new and refreshing ideas for their publications or face getting the chop.
Covermount CDs and freebies will work in the short-term but unless a magazine earns it's stripes through great writing, audiences will rarely come back for more - especially when they can get all the free music they want over p2p.
I too would love to see a magazine that doesn't rely merely on short album reviews and celebrity gossip to shift copies, and as Dave says, it would have to go culturally deeper than to pander to pilled-up mongs drooling over faceless DJ names in Ibiza.
There is no reason why dance mags should fail to sell right now - granted, the musical climate suggests a resurgence in rock music, but this is a weak excuse considering dance and pop are being taken increasingly seriously.
It's about time the media started to recognise this. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next five years we see the arrival of publications like Classic Techno fighting for rack space next to Mojo and Uncut.
The genre is over 15 years old now and the audience has changed countless times over. Each new year brings a new subgenre, a new culture and a new audience, but my impression is that the dance rags are stuck in an endless haze of 1992, still under the impression that they are writing for mash-heads raving it up at the Megadog.
A serious dance mag with decent writing is what we're all crying out for. Jockey Slut and Muzik did come close but, as mentioned upthread, failed in giving their readers the same respect as the rock ‘zines, preferring to cater toward the lads’n’luvvies crowd.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

While reading the last Muzik I remembered how much I like UK music-mag page-filler material, since it always consists of joke references and [-ed.] comments I don't get. "Hahaha! Public schoolies in Sheffield! Hahaha! I'll bet that's not even funny!" I don't know why I enjoy this, but I do.

(That Puffy article was creepy, by the way, great and creepy. Puffy's like the internet: everyone suspects he will change their world so they rush to make sure they're on board for whatever happens. It's like 1994, "We have to do something with the internet or we'll be left behind forever.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh, that DJ Hell quote was weird! and also, Diddy must've been totally bullshitting about going to those old New York house clubs when they started.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to see a uk xlr8r or something of the same ilk plug this gap, except done even sharper...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

what was xlr8r like?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

it's around it's in the us and it's better than anything we've got...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

website:

XLR8R
http://www.xlr8r.com/
Published: West Coast of America

still exists, can be picked up at certain newsagents/tower/borders in London.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Archive: of recent issues:
http://www.xlr8r.com/archive.php

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

If P Diddy's responsible for all those samples throughout the years -- Gwen Guthrie, Sylvia Striplin, Mtume, Rene & Angela, Patrice Rushen, Peter Brown, Diana Ross, Yarborough & Peoples, Chic, Indeep, Unlimited Touch, Evelyn Champagne King, Dexter Wansel, etc etc etc -- he at least has a good knowledge of what was played in those clubs. Still funny though -- the Paradise Garage closed in '87, so the oldest he could've been was, what, 17?

― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i doubt he did go to any of them - i thought that whole peiece was total horseshit...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i doubt he did go to any of them - i thought that whole piece was total horseshit...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure he knew about the Garage, remember he was a dancer back then, not an MC - if he was 17 maybe he did get in right in the end days but its still pretty suspect - who cares tho really.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

puffy really is music's greatest snake-oil salesman: travelling around and arriving to a big fanfare, passing stuff off as something it isn't, then leaving tons of disgruntled punters behind when they all realise they've been conned. i just find something really distasteful about him and can't see how people at places like muzik don't see him for the charlatan he is...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

my dislike of him and his methods has just withered in recent years to just mild indifference with a reasonable degree of respect for the guy for creating a wealthy empire. american dream indeed...

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Puffy's isn't that much older than me, and the Garage closed when I was 12. so I find it difficult to imagine he went there at all.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I only place I've been able to find XLR8R recently was at that newsstand opposite Liberty nr Carnaby St, and even they seem have stopped selling it. Shame it can't get better distribution in the UK, it's an on-the-ball mag with a nicely inclusive outlook.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand how the Puffy thing can annoy people, it's good for dance music, it doesn't matter what the song sounds like, all that matters is a massive superstar from another world has made a dance record. And it's very Muzik to put him on the cover because recently it is a fun magazine and not one which locks itself down with its own principles.

That said it's not unscrupulous either.

It's unlikely there is ever going to be a good electronic music publication. I'll expand on this in a minute.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

tell us about Glasto first, you big galoot

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

come on msn/slsk and i'll tell all

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

come on ronan expand away...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 108 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I dunno what to say, I mean I heard her at 3am with a head full of lamb and champagne so I don't remember much except I luv luv luvved it. It occurs to me this may well be the optimal environment for hearing her actually. Everyone at this party knew who she was, even the parents, she's a disco goddess over there. No doubt Jacques Lu Cont knows her singles like the back of his hand.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

les rita mitsouko

(Les Rita Mitsouko is not a person it's band, apparently; ANYway...!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

gutted it's closing 2 b honest.
this month's is ace. especially the outkast interview
(that moby bit's hilarious).
is there another issue next month or is that really it ?

august's was meant to be a '100 best dance singles ever' edition.
a good way to end i guess. bless em.

does this mean that we have 2 read mixmag again now ?

the bloke who does the bit at the back (20 reasons why...)
should have his own show or something.

hey good luck muzik chaps.

― piscesboy, Monday, 14 July 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

that's the last issue of Muzik !

Re: does this mean that we have 2 read mixmag again now ? NO ...there is still DJ Magazine, every fortnight

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

...anyone remember M8? Trashy mag, but some great CDs... did they go bust, too?

I'll be sad to see Muzik go.... their Erol Alkan CD last month was blinding.

― russ t, Monday, 14 July 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Ex readers of Muzik magazine note: NME APPOINTS MALIK MEER AS FEATURES EDITOR

So NME has two ex Muzik editors now !

also new deputy editor [Alex Needham] appointed last month NME APPOINTS DEPUTY EDITOR

One can only hope these changes mean a shift in direction from the awful trad rock tripe of NME in 2003 [Retro garage rock, Southern bar boogie, Ex-tremo and other generic britrock chancers]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.woebot.com/movabletype/archives/000101.html

?! i don't see any other evidence for this as yet...

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jockey Slut going quarterly "very soon".

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

makes sense

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't bought ver Slut since it was every two months, so this kind of makes sense to me. I still use my JS backback.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the decline of this sector of the Music market (from the original 'Muzik to close' press release)

why is this happening (the market for such mags contracting, I mean)? OK there were too many titles a couple of years ago, but now it's gone too far the other way IMO, to the point where there seems to be a gap in the market for a mag for non-clubbers like me that's informative about new dance releases

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the kind of readership Muzik and Jockey Slut were prone to attracting/targetting is perhaps now spending more time reading (or indeed) writing online. Mixmag and DJ will probably continue because their remit seems more focussed (die-hard clubbers and DJs not as interested in analysis as they are in necking E's, dancing or in DJ's case pouring over the ads in the back for decks - this may be an out of date description, apologies if so) and perhaps even more youth-orientated in that respect.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i will be throwing a party when jockey slut closes. i'd rather see mixmag as the last man standing than that

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone seen this magazine, [published in Nottingham]

Keep On
http://www.keeponmagazine.com/index.htm

Issue 2 is now in the shops, and includes interviews with:
David Mancuso, Bill Brewster,
Doc Martin, Atjazz, Nathan Haines,
Phil Asher, Inland Knights,
Tim Lawrence, Inspirit Music,
Jon Burgerman and Rainy City.
Features on Italo Disco, Arthur
Russell and Drum Programming
for house music. House, Disco,
Broken Beat Tech House, Funk
and Soul Reviews, Events DJ Charts,
Listings, Competitions and News.

If you're having trouble finding a
copy, then check out our current
list of stockists

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

who's behind it? i don't want to say too much until i know about that... i have seen it

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

writers invloved:
http://www.keeponmagazine.com/contact_writers.htm

Paul Johnston

Curtis Mayfield (vol 1. issue #1)
Charles Webster (vol 1. issue #1)
John Buckby (vol 1. issue #1)
Doc Martin (vol 1. issue #1)
Atjazz (vol 1. issue #2)
Introduction to Drum Programming (vol 1. issue #2)

Jolyon Green

David Mancuso (vol 1. issue #2)
Italo Disco (vol 1. issue #2)
Tim Lawrence - Love Saves the Day- (vol 1. issue #2)
Arthur Russell (vol 1. issue #2)

Andy Greenman

Inland Knights (vol 1. issue #2)
Inspirit Music (vol 1. issue #2)

Matthew Clarke

Steve Kotey (vol 1. issue #1)
Curtis Mayfield (vol 1. issue #1)
Leroy Burgess (vol 1. issue #1)
Nick the Record (vol 1. issue #1)
Began Cekic (vol 1. issue #1)
Bill Brewster (vol 1. issue #2)
Rainy City (vol 1. issue #2)

Jon Freer

Break Reform (vol 1. issue #1)
Nathan Haines (vol 1. issue #2)
Phil Asher (vol 1. issue #2)

Reviews

Tom Lingham
Jon Freer
Russell Pollitt
Aine Guiney
Marky Star
Jay Tripwire
Terry Farley
Al Kent
Kelvy Espinosa
Steve Reed
Daddy Bones
Mark Harrison
Jeremy Oakley

http://www.keeponmagazine.com/contact_press.htm
Mark Geldart [Editor]:

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

they should have called it "straight no chaser (remix)"

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Electronica is dying. Too bad it didn't survive hip-hop as electronica, non-melodic as it may have been, has at least produced some marvellous and truly sophisticated head music.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

You know nothing about it, please fuck off.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahaha!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

of course the closure of Bang and X-Ray means indie-rock is also dying

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Geir's favourite mag was surely Melody Maker

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mein Monthly Kampf

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

jokes like that are no longer so off the wall after that other awful thread

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

has x-ray closed?! shows how much attention i paid to it - it was the biggest heap of shit i've ever read though

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was quite little.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it's amazing how much shit the right people can cram into a small receptacle!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So, to recap:

Bang - started promisingly, went really awful, closed.

X-Ray - started badly, became mediocre, last two issues a million times better, closed.

Jockey Slut - same publisher as X-Ray, allegedly been losing its grip recently, going quarterly.

Official statement from spokesperson (lifted from here goes thus: "I can confirm that Jockey Slut is to go quarterly as part of a brand development initiative. Whilst the general media trend is for music magazines to 'go under', we are taking a positive and progressive step to establish the Jockey Slut brand further, widening its potential reach by extending through other mediums and developing extensive brand extensions through events, commercial releases and so forth, all brought together via a greater reliance on www.jockeyslut.com."

Sounds like a bit of a cop-out to me.

Bullit - Issue 1 out now, looks way better than the shonky launch issue, but crumbs do they ever need a sub and a design team who can spell?!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's still aboslutely full of howlers isn't it... reading that statement about "brand development initiative" and the like tempts me to take Stelfox's position on Jockey Slut, although I doubt it has any bearing on the people who actually write the magazine one way or the other.

Really though: would anyone here consider, or has anyone here considered putting out a newsstand music magazine at the moment? If so are you a billionaire, mad, a genius or a combination thereof?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"extensive brand extensions"! If there's one thing worse than marketing speak it's people who don't know how to use it proper.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think "bang" started promisingly. It was k-rub right from the off!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

with BurnitBlue website gone, you can see that a well resourced website covering dance/ electronic/ beats oriented music makes sense.

If they resourced the website, with upfront daily news, features and reviews - then the could reach a significant global readership.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Has burnitblue gone? I wrote some old bollox for them once. Never paid me. Prolly never will now.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If Bang had've closed one month earlier, the last words ever written in it would have been "God hates us all". Which was nice. Instead, it was something from a Dizzee Rascal interview. Not as good.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

we're still alive.

http://www.groovesmag.com

― seanp (seanp), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

congrats. i am actually happy about that. i like grooves but its too exclusively experimental to cover all the bases for everyone. i personally would like a magazine full of intelligent writing on "stupid" dancefloor house and techno. i can read about luc ferrari in Wire ;)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Nearly every issue of Muzik magazine in PDF form:

http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/

― groovypanda, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

For some reason I really remember that Junior Vasquez cover.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

Whoa. Nostalgia. This is fascinating, thanks.

Is it really more than 10 years since I bought their retrospective of 10 years of dance music (which was already ancient history)? Ouch.

And an advert for a Teletext page in amongst the listings...

― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

Christ, I remember buying the first copy and reading it in the 6th form common room. That and Jockey Slut were essential monthly purchases. I found a few reviews that I'd cut out and slipped into record sleeves the other day. I still have some of their tapes and CDs. J. Padilla's Ibiza mixtape is great. I think I might recreate that mix when I get the chance.

― mmmm, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

What was so good about Muzik was the music vs. club coverage. Other mags gave such little space for reviews and plastered their pages in pics of girls in feather boas from Birmingham. Ironically most of them are still doing business.

― mmmm, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

I cut the article from the Disco Punk Explosion issue out and stuck it in my copy of Disco-not-Disco.

The kids were selling their decks and buying guitars.....

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

Other mags gave such little space for reviews and plastered their pages in pics of girls in feather boas from Birmingham. Ironically most of them are still doing business.

This was kind of confusing to me, as a girl who was just discovering I liked electronic music but who knew I was never, ever going to look like the cover of Mixmag.

(ok, I say "was", but I never really reconciled liking the music and wanting to hear it in its intended setting with that feeling of alienation from club culture)

― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 6 May 2011 22:58 (fourteen years ago)

can somebody put together a torrent of this?

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 8 May 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

Cool ... it's interesting to scroll through those covers and see how they went from ultra serious to "Dance Music Teen Beat".

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 8 May 2011 08:40 (fourteen years ago)

I think the "can vinyl survive?" issue was the last one I bought (not a very good article IIRC). I'll second that request for a torrent of the full archive ...

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 8 May 2011 08:43 (fourteen years ago)

Muzik acid house compilation is still a favourite of mine. Fascinating archive.

― Neil S, Sunday, 8 May 2011 12:25 (fourteen years ago)

Wild! Makes me wish I'd kept my back issues.

Someone would do well to archive all the covermount CDs and cassettes!

― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 8 May 2011 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

I had all up till '98 - http://www.discogs.com/label/Muzik+Magazine I'll have to look for them some day.

― mmmm, Sunday, 8 May 2011 16:30 (fourteen years ago)

Doesn't get too much more 2003 than this one:
http://www.discogs.com/DFA-Muzik-Presents-Disco-Punk-Dance-To-The-Underground/release/124665

It's probably pretty good fun though!

― Neil S, Sunday, 8 May 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

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