Volume magazine was a music magazine which was published in the UK in the early to mid 1990s. The 192-page magazines were the size and shape of jewel cases, and each issue included a CD which contained a track from each artist who was featured in that issue. Volume One, the first issue, was published in September 1991. Volume also released several double-CD compilations, including the Trance Europe Express and Trance Atlantic series, a mix release called TEXtures, and two best-of compilations. These special editions were packaged in double-disc jewel cases, and each came in a box with Volume's standard-sized 192-page booklet.
The music artists featured in the magazine ranged widely from ambient artists The Orb, to trip-hop artists Massive Attack, to electronic body music artists Nitzer Ebb, to hip-hop act Cypress Hill, to post-punk band Public Image Ltd., to name but a few. Electronic music was featured quite heavily.
The magazine contained interviews and bios of various bands and musical artists, with discographies and "favorite tracks" lists of the artists. The tone of many of the articles was irreverent, and much of the filler material was riotously funny. For example, in the Wasted compilation's companion booklet, several short blurbs entitled "The Diary of Dave Stewart's Beard" are written from the perspective of a beard, in which it pontificates whether it will be shaven, and describes its attempts to hide itself in shame after the poor performance of its owner's latest album.
Volume One, September 1991
Volume Two, November 1991
- Barry Adamson – "Odio-Amor, Odio-Amor" (1:12)
- Lush – "Tiny Smiles" (4:10)
- The Blue Aeroplanes – "Aeroplane Blues (LA Mix)" (4:21)
- MC 900 Ft Jesus – "Killer Inside Me" (3:08)
- New Fast Automatic Daffodils – "All Over My Face (Scam Mix)" (4:42)
- Nine Inch Nails – "Head Like A Hole (Alternative Version)" (4:13)
- Whipped Cream – "Mr. Green" (3:52)
- Spirea X – "Signed DC (Acoustic Version)" (3:38)
- Blur – "Oily Water" (4:58)
- The Sugarcubes – "Hetero Scum" (3:05)
- Definition Of Sound – "When A Lion Awakes (Full Length Version)" (2:32)
- Celestial Tribes – "Gold (Remix)" (3:53)
- System 7 – "Miracle (Orb Remix)" (6:14)
- Bomb The Bass – "Liquid Metal (Remix)" (4:35)
- EMF – "I Believe (Inframental Foetus Remix)" (6:38)
- Pulp – "She's Dead" (5:03)
- No-Man – "Kiss Me Stupid" (4:52)
- Curve – "Already Yours (Basement Mix)" (3:56)
- Gallon Drunk – "Ruby" (4:06)
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Volume Five, December 1992
Volume Eight, November 1993
Volume Ten, July 1994
- A.R. Kane - "Deep Blue Breath" (5:30)
- Disco Inferno - "Second Language" (4:44)
- Scarce - "Naked Freak Shadow" (3:16)
- Gene - "To See The Lights" (2:28)
- The High Llamas - "Might As Well Be Dumbo" (4:53)
- Pulp - "Joyriders" (3:31)
- Tiny Monroe - "Cream Bun" (3:50)
- Echobelly - "Fake" (3:11)
- Gigolo Aunts - "They Don't Know" (2:43)
- Lush - "Tinkerbell" (3:16)
- Tricky - "You Don't" (4:42)
- Credit to the Nation - "Come Dancing" (4:37)
- Loop Guru - "La Boheme" (5:29)
- Transglobal Underground - "Khan" (6:55)
- Transcendental Love Machine - "Revolvalution" (4:07)
- Insides - "Tikky" (5:20)
- Oracle - "The Sweetest Place" (5:44)
- Peter Perrett's The One - "Daughter" (4:28)
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Volume Eleven, August 1994
Volume Twelve, December 1994
Volume Thirteen, 1995
- Krispy 3 - "Listen Up" (3:56)
- Whiteout - "Polyesther Blues" (3:52)
- The Boo Radleys - "Reaching Out From Here (Martin Carr Demo)" (3:04)
- Animals That Swim - "East Street O'Neill" (2:06)
- Juliana Hatfield - "Waves" (4:23)
- Elcka - "Games We Play" (3:48)
- Interact - "Just Because" (4:15)
- Throwing Muses - "Hillbilly" (3:22)
- Kaliphz - "Sex, Horror & Violence" (4:17)
- Luscious Jackson - "Daddy" (2:38)
- Tribute to Nothing - "Look At Yourself" (2:50)
- The Flying Medallions - "Vanity Fair" (2:17)
- Nova Mob - "No Promise Have I Made" (2:52)
- Done Lying Down - "Bolus" (2:17)
- Rosa Mota - "Frost Bitten" (4:44)
- Edwyn Collins - "In A Nutshell" (4:09)
- Tindersticks - "Tiny Tears" (5:23)
- Radiohead - "Nice Dream (Demo)" (3:10)
- Velo Deluxe - "Jesus Let Me In" (3:19)
- Reverberation - "It's All Over" (5:32)
- Heather Nova - "Maybe An Angel (Acoustic Version)" (4:33)
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Volume Fifteen, November 1995
- Rhythmicon - "Springs & Magnets Part 2 (Return to Steam)" (5:08)
- Life's Addiction - "Quiet Storm (Demo)" (4:59)
- Solid - "Outside" (4:02)
- Cocteau Twins - "Circling Girl" (3:35)
- Baby Bird - "Alan Ladd" (3:02)
- LHOOQ - "Vanishing" (5:41)
- The Shamen - "MK2A (Tranquility Bass Dub)" (6:10)
- Alabama 3 - "Hypo Full Of Love (The 12 Step Plan) (Remix)" (6:47)
- Ultramarine - "Altered Ego" (5:47)
- New Order - "Everything's Gone Green (Advent Remix)" (5:55)
- Joi - "Everybody Say Yeah (Spring Heel Jack Remix)" (7:18)
- Jock Scot with The Nectarine No. 9 - "Thierry Lacroix" (2:54)
- Scheer - "Don't Know Why? (Demo)" (3:41)
- The Flaming Stars - "Bring Me the Rest Of Alfredo Garcia" (3:16)
- Mick Harvey - "Who's 'In', Who's 'Out'" (3:14)
- State of Grace - "Perfect and Wild" (4:28)
- The Wannadies - "Let Go Oh Oh"
- Law One - "Better Get Ready" (9:27)
- Alien - "Sam The Ant Tamer" (5:47)
- Bonjour Monsieur Basie - "Ambient Jazz Suite No. 2" (9:26)
- Data track
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Volume Sixteen, July 1996
- Dubstar - "Not So Fast" (4:16)
- Space - "Me and You vs the World" (3:39)
- Bawl - "Unfinished" (2:39)
- The Candyskins - "Europe + Japan" (3:12)
- Northern Uproar - "Moods" (3:19)
- Linoleum - "She's Sick" (3:37)
- Cradle - "Second Nature (French Version)" (4:40)
- Super Furry Animals - "Frisbee" (2:34)
- Octopus - "I Know Who I Am" (3:06)
- Beck - "Thunder Peel" (2:42)
- The Cure - "Club America (Roxy Mix)" (5:10)
- Pusherman - "Whole" (5:02)
- Baader Meinhof - "GSG/29" (3:07)
- Moonshake - "Nothing But Time" (4:23)
- Gretschen Hofner - "St. Pauli" (3:06)
- The Shave - "Crushed Velvet Panties" (4:09)
- Lush - "Half and Half" (3:17)
- Edward Ball - "Docklands Blues" (4:39)
- Balloon - "The Saw Song" (4:35)
- Vic Chesnutt - "Flowers on the Wall" (4:34)
- The Afghan Whigs - "I Want to Go to Sleep" (3:43)
- Labradford - "The Window" (4:37)
- Heave - "Barberskum" (4:09)
- The Pop Group - "3: 38" (3:40)
- Mark Stewart - "Digital Justice (dub)" (5:52)
- Meat Beat Manifesto - "Future Worlds (Alternate Version)" (4:26)
- Data track
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Volume Seventeen, January 1997
- Alabama Three - "Woke Up This Morning" (6:46)
- Elastica - "Love Like Ours" (2:23)
- Travis - "U 16 Girls" (4:17)
- Terrorvision - "Conspiracy (Remix)" (3:24)
- Gallon Drunk - "All This and More" (3:37)
- dEUS - "The Magic of New Pop Music" (3:50)
- Morphine - "Never Live Twice [live]" (2:41)
- Björk - "Possibly Maybe [Lucy Mix]" (3:02)
- The Longpigs - "On and On (Pass the Snake Mix)" (5:15)
- Rare - "Rollercoaster" (3:54)
- Little Axe - "What Have You Got?" (4:04)
- Turn On - "Latin Gloop" (4:37)
- System 7 - "Big Sky City" (7:53)
- Curve - "Test" (5:59)
- Drugstore - "Communication Breakdown" (2:46)
- Throwing Muses - "Like a Dog" (3:23)
- Elvis Costello - "What Do I Do Now?" (4:26)
- The Auteurs - "Unsolved Child Murder" (2:00)
- Catatonia - "Mickey" (2:34)
- Cuckoo - "More of Me (And Then Some)" (4:21)
- Fruit - "Leather Jacket" (4:29)
- Mel McRory - "Here I Am" (2:24)
- The Divine Comedy - "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" (6:22)
- Cocteau Twins - "Touch Upon Touch" (4:05)
- Geneva - "Closer to the Stars" (3:42)
- Fiel Garvie - "Risk" (3:47)
- Fringe - "I'll Keep It in Mind" (4:35)
- Bettie Serveert - "Spine" (3:12)
- Bill Janovitz - "Red Balloon" (5:26)
- Mindless Drug Hoover - "Volume" (3:05)
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