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Reissue of the Week: Phew, Erika Kobayashi and Dieter Moebius’ Radium Girls
Originally released in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, and centred on the story of real Japanese women who suffered radiation poisoning through their factory work, this newly-reissued collaboration should invite deep reflection when played today, says Jennifer Lucy Allan
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INTERVIEW: Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer on the Festival’s 2025 Edition
Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals like hers, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more
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Organic Intelligence XLVII: Microtonal Jazz
In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Stewart Smith explains how microtonal jazz can help dissolve Western preconceptions of how music is constructed and understood
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Architectonics of Time: Hyperglyph by Chicago Underground Duo
Three decades in, the interplay betwen Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor, collaborators with everyone from Stereolab and Tortoise to Joshua Abrams and Jaimie Branch, just gets deeper and richer
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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Shake Up the Space: An Interview with upsammy and Valentina Magaletti
Ahead of the North American premiere of their ongoing collaboration at this year’s MUTEK Festival, upsammy and Valentina Magaletti speak to Jennifer Lucy Allan about architecture as an instrument, and striking a balance between turbulence and clarity
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Anniversary
The Rhythm Divine: Running Up That Hill, 40 Years On
As 'Running Up That Hill' turns 40, Matthew Lindsay takes a deep dive into how was it made, what it means and why it's connected so strongly with a younger generation. This feature was originally published on 23/06/2022
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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
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Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out
In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how the Boss changed her life for good
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