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Celebrate the Visual Side of Clubbing Megabrand Global Underground with this Exclusive Video Interview

Ahead of an upcoming London exhibition, watch an interview with GU's photographer Dean Belcher.

Twenty years ago, I was a precocious little shit who spent too much time reading encyclopaedias and not enough playing football in the street. Twenty years ago, record label boss Andy Horsfield was launching his own empire: Global Underground. For the last two decades, the GU brand's become synonymous with the kind of globetrotting DJs who pack out big rooms from Manchester to Manilla, and their long-running compilation series has a place in the heart of dance fans who prefer their mixes to come in a jewel case rather than down the virtual pipe that is the internet.

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It's not all about the music though, and as the team put it, their "obsession for capturing the visual vibrancy of the world's clubbing environments has resulted in a peerless archive of images that catalogue the unique growth of dance music."

If you like looking at photos of DJs—which we'll assume you do as you're reading a website which is primarily photos of DJs—then you'll be wanting to get yourself down to the Scout Hut in Bethnal Green in London between October 28th and November 10th to have a mosey at the amassed archival footage on display, courtesy of GU's very own photographer Dean Belcher.

To get you in the mood for that, why not watch the interview with Dean above, in which the dapper snapper chats through the last twenty years of making blokes who play records look impossibly glamourous.

Head here for more information on the exhibition.