The Archive

Everything we've written down so far

Extracts from the book, club histories, and the arguments that come with them.

  1. Origins

    The night Sasha mixed with the pitch control

    Before Shelley's, before Renaissance, before Twilo, there was a room in Stockport and a nineteen-year-old who thought the pitch fader was the volume knob.
  2. Club history

    Shelley's Laserdrome: eight months that built a superstar

    September 1990 to May 1991. A converted ballroom in Stoke-on-Trent, Italian piano house, and the residency that turned a Haçienda regular into the first DJ anyone queued for.
  3. Why it's called that

    'SON OF GOD?' — the magazine cover this book is named after

    In 1994 Mixmag crowned Sasha, and he hated it. The title of this book is a joke with a real target, and most people who repeat it have no idea.