As it's Valentine's Day we're showing how much we love our top Subscriber Plus tier supporters by giving them bonus music – here, former Simian members Jas Shaw and Simon Lord discuss how they combined vocals, long form production and the inspiration of Slavoj Žižek on their twinkling epic
Jas Shaw marks the release of the first album from his new project Shaw & Grossfeldt with a Quietus Baker's Dozen, featuring an Aphex Twin love story, why dance music isn't an albums game, and how a Resident Advisor podcast helped him through chemotherapy
Ahead of a performance at Supernormal Festival this weekend, Daniel Foggin, aka Smote, speaks to Danijela Bočev about how labour on a farm in the Scottish Borders, tales of a fearsome medieval wyrm whose lair lay nearby, and an appreciation of patient listening fed into his forthcoming fourth LP A Grand Stream