Straight No Chaser (magazine)
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| Editor | Paul Bradshaw, Amar Patel, Ian Swift (Swifty), Gilles Peterson |
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| Categories | Cultural Magazine |
| Frequency | Pentannual (previously quarterly) |
| First issue | Volume 1: 1988 Volume 2: 1998 |
| Final issue | Volume 1: 1998 Volume 2: 2007 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| Website | [1] |
Straight No Chaser was an influential British music magazine, based in London, which covered various forms of black music and electronic music.
The magazine was started by music lover, journalist, and general clubgoer Paul Bradshaw, to cover the emerging black music scene that he saw expanding in London and the UK around the time house music hit British shores in a big way around Summer 1988.
It was published in the UK and distributed for sale across the whole country, much of Europe, metropolitan areas of the US and other countries, from address 43B Coronet Street, Shoreditch, London, N1 6HD. It also had a slightly differing version that was published and distributed for sale separately in Japan. Starting out life being published quarterly, it moved to 5 times a year on its second volume, however the actual amount of issues released would fluctuate year on year and it didn't have a regular release date, so regular purchasers of the magazine often had to keep an eye out for its release when it happened. Very occasionally a covermount CD or tape was also included with the magazine, sometimes either only for a limited amount of copies or for its initial print run for that issue, but other times only for sale on the Japanese edition.
SNC magazines' slogan was Interplanetary Sounds: Ancient To Future, which basically meant it covered Jazz music at the center, with other black music's from around the world—especially soulful electronic music—forming the core of its focus. While most of the magazine contained charts from eminent DJ's on the scene (including a regular chart from Bradshaw's DJ friend Gilles Peterson) or articles on underground music scenes around the world, it also had an eye on contemporary artwork, and underground fashionable trends in and outside various music communities usually not generally well-known about outside of the worlds' big urban centres (London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, et al.).
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