25 years: a mixed bag

The latest issue of U.K. dance glossy Mixmag marks 25 years for the publication, which started in 1983 as a newsletter with a cassette mixtape attached to each issue. Great lede in The Independent newspaper's take on the anniversary: "When Mixmag was first published in 1983, a DJ was still a man who told mother-in-law-jokes between records ... " These days the publication is nursing itself back to life after the bust of mid-decade, when dance music was derided as old news in the U.K. music press. Editor Nick DeCosemo says there will be no more drug stories, as there have been in the past.

"Year zero for Mixmag as we now know it was the arrival of acid house in Britain," DeCosemo tells ithe Independent. "A group of people, including Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling, went on holiday to Ibiza in 1987, seized on this sound, brought it back to London and combined it with ecstasy. All of a sudden, house music went from being a niche style made by a few kids in Chicago to the biggest youth culture movement since the 60s."