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Hyperspecific: Dance Music For March Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel
In his second installment of Hyperspecific for 2021, Jaša Bužinel discusses the recent club safety measures suggested by the UK government from a wider European perspective, and reviews exciting new music from ZULI, Speaker Music, VTSS and object blue
Anniversary
Feel The Crushing Steel: Grace Jones And The Compass Point Trilogy
Compass Point Studios, and its house band the Compass Point All Stars, were going to be Chris Blackwell and Island Records’ defining statement to the world. Instead, they provided Grace Jones’s. And that, says David Bennun, looking back at the three extraordinary records she made there between 1980 and 1982, is more than enough
A Quietus Interview
No Cunty For Old Men: SA Ballroom Pioneers FAKA Interviewed
Ahead of FAKA's appearance at Rewire 2018, Desire Marea talks to Claire Sawers about the how the South African performance art duo are breaking new sonic ground with their infectious, fabulous, politicised mix of gqom, gospel and ancestral percussion
