Nigerien ensemble Tal National create joyful, extended, hypnotic grooves that draw from their home country's varied musical traditions. With their first internationally distributed album just released, founder Hamadal Moumine speaks with Richie Troughton about selling his own group's CDs at roundabouts and taking their sound to the wider world
Before she plays the Tate Modern's Turbine Festival this weekend, the producer and genre-scouring NTS DJ talks to Olivia Cheves about her ethnomusicology studies, sampling internet pornography and flipping music industry image conventions. Photographs courtesy of Rosie Harriet Ellis
David Peschek remembers recently-deceased Glasgow club Divine as he speaks to the likes of founder Andrew Divine, JD Twitch from Optimo, Stephen Pastel and Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, who recalls the time he wore a dress... Oh, and there's a mix too.