Late on a Friday night (or, to be more accurate, very early on a Saturday morning) Nemone presents her own mix of hip hop, beats and electronic music. The show mixes old and new but focuses largely on the digital-music era, from house and trance through to modern beats and grime. Guests have numbered most of the prestigious mixers and DJs of recent years, as well as electro pioneers such as Jean Michel Jarre.
The second set of questions here is inspired by the Wind Down playlist: the segment of the show where listeners suggest a Saturday night chill-out track. All the artists have been featured in the Wind Down slot – but not necessarily with the track or record you’re being asked about.
Answers: here
1 Who would you be listening to if the DJ was Alexander Coe from Bangor in Wales? What was his 1999 EP which still makes many lists of the best dance songs of the last couple of decades?
2 Which popular movie theme gave Moby his second UK Top 10 hit in 1997? What was the title of his massive 1999 album that saw him cross over to mainstream success?
3 ‘Theme from S-Express (by S-Express)’ was one of the earliest big chart hits in the UK to be mainly based on a sample. What was the title of their debut album, from which it was taken? Who was the DJ and producer at the core of the band?
4 Saul Milton and Will Kennard are a DJ partnership who release records under which name? Which white British urban star, with his best days ahead of him, provided the vocals for their 2008 single ‘Pieces’?
5 Which American producer had a UK number one with ‘You Don’t Know Me’, sung by Duane Harden, in 1999? Who went ‘Bonkers’ and gave him another chart-topper as producer and co-writer?
6 Random Album Title, For Lack of a Better Name and >album title goes here< are all albums by Joel Zimmerman. Under what name does he DJ/produce/record, and where is he from?
7 LA electronic duo Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland perform under what name? In 2005 the duo composed the theme to which hugely successful TV cop show based on the books by forensic expert Kathy Reichs?
8 What was the controversially-titled third single from the Prodigy’s Fat of the Land? Who is the band leader and songwriter in the band?
9 The Chemical Brothers. They aren’t. Who are they?
10 Which German film composer and producer wrote ‘He’s a Pirate’ for the soundtrack of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl? Who released a special remix of the track in 2006?
11 Which massive club hit, the second single from Fathless’ debut album, Reverence, reached number one in the UK in 1995? What saucy business does the narrator get up to with his girl while ‘making mad love on the heath’?
12 Which drum and bass artist won the Mercury Prize in 1997 with New Forms? What was the side project with which the main man released an album, Ultra-Obscene, in 1999??
13 Which 1976 electronic suite was Jean Michel Jarre’s massive commercial breakthrtough? Which collaborative project took him back to the upper reaches of the UK charts in 2015?
14 Who sang on David Guetta’s two UK number ones from his 2009 album One Love, ‘When Love Takes Over’ and ‘Sexy Bitch’?
15 Here are the Chemical Brothers albums: Exit Planet Dust, MISSING, Surrender, Come With Us, Push the Button, MISSING, Further, Born in the Echoes. What are the two missing albums?
16 Which country was Future Sound of London’s 1991 debut single – since remixed and released many times – named after? Where are they from?
17 Portishead’s only UK Top 10 single was the first released from their self-named 1997 second album: what was it? What was the somewhat unimaginative title of their next album, in 2008?
18 What was Gary Numan’s 1979 debut solo single and number one? With which band had he already topped the chart that year with ‘Are Friends Electric?’
19 French duo Nicola Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel perform under what name? Their second album was a soundtrack to which 2000 movie directed by Sofia Coppola?
20 Underworld released the single ‘Born Slippy’ in 1995 with little success. It reached number two when rereleased the following year with what suffix after the title? What status at school did the band claim in the title of their 1996 album?
21 What style of music do the Gotan Project use as their base? In which European city are this multi-national act based?
22 The Bath, The Yellow and The Midnight were three EPs put together to make the debut album of which lo-fi trip hop band in 2000? Which claiming-to-be-loud single off their third album sampled, ‘Horrorshow’, a single by cult punk band the Scars?
23 Which band boasted that Daft Punk were playing at their house? What was their third album, which reached the Top 10 in both the US and the UK in 2010?
24 William Orbit’s second, third, fourth and fifth albums all shared a title theme: what? Which other album title has he used twice, in 1999 and 2010, for classical works remixed and reworked electronically?
25 Who made a comeback in 2014 with Syro, his first studio album for 14 years?? What was his most successful single, a 1999 track with a ten-minute video spoofing gangsta rappers?
26 Easy Star All-Stars are a collective who specialise in reworking classic albums in what style? Which classic 1973 prog rock album was their debut project in 2003?
27 DJ Shadow produced the 1998 debut album Psyence Fiction for which band, comprising James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy? What was the title of his own debut, released in 1996?
28 Where did the electronic band Ladytron get their name? Where are they based?
29 Which pioneer of electronic music began his career playing keyboards for Roxy Music? With whom did he collaborate on Evening Star in 1975, and again on The Equatorial Stars in 2004?
30 Singer Skye Edwards and the Godfrey brothers are the core of which downtempo band? What was their platinum-selling 1998 album containing chill-out classics ‘Part of the Process’ and ‘The Sea’?