Delphic: Ambiguous

Mancunian trio, Delphic, flew blind from the ashes of a previous band, Snowfight In The City Centre. They were looking for some way to fit. Some way of finding a peace after finishing uni, apparently. Luckily they found more electronics and flew into the arms of the Berlin-based dance music producing daddy, Ewan Pearson...

Elbow and The Halle: A Seldom Seen Pairing

Composed of Elbow songs – expanded and some-part adapted to include The Halle – and conducted by the Reader in Music at Salford University, Joe Duddell, the Elbow/Halle Orchestra shows, shown over two dates (July 8&9) at the 2,000-capiticy Bridgewater Hall, were designed as a love letter to the city that spawned two of Manchester's favourite sons...

Moby: Truly Independent

Richard Melville Hall, Moby, is one of those people everyone loves to hate. But for no good reason. Apart from, maybe, that he's been truly successful; holds himself in a controlled meditating yogi-style manner – despite rumours of drug abuse and sexual overtness; and is also something of an enigma...

Beardyman: New Ableton Live Template For Studio

When Rivmixx caught up with Beardyman he'd just come out of a “weird conference” where he had to dress in a suit and pretend to be a very boring professor. It was for the end of some pharmaceutical company's two day conference....

Rivmixx Rising: Nneka

Nneka Egbuna might have only just burst into our mainstream ears recently with that Chase & Status remix of 'Heartbeat', but the Nigerian born singer songwriter is actually onto her third album. She'd performed with The Roots, Femi Kuti, Lenny Kravitz, Gnarls Barkley and, earlier this year, beat off Amadou & Mariam and that 'I'm So Special' funkster Movado to with Best African Act at the MOBOs.