Together with Laurent Garnier, Aphex Twin and Richie Hawtin, Rotterdam’s Speedy J has helped define techno since 1991, raising the genre just after it had escaped the Detroit delivery room with albums ...

Speedy J has produced influential touchstones in techno in the past, like G Spot, and created assorted brilliant ambient works under his own name, Jochem Paap. This time around he delves into a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In the techno world, Rotterdam is known for two things: blindingly hard and fast gabber techno and veteran producer/DJ Speedy J (aka Jochem Paap). Not that Paap hasn’t produced his share of ...

Four years ago, Marilyn Manson declared in song that rock was dead. Three years before that, Lenny Kravitz did the same. During the preceding decade, the sentiment was voiced a thousand times over, by ...