Mariam Rezaei

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Spool’s Out: The Best Tapes Of 2020

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Articles 4

Back Spinning: Mariam Rezaei’s Favourite Music

Ahead of her performance at OUT.FEST, The Newcastle turntablist and composer tells Alastair Shuttleworth about some of the records that have shaped her career – from Pauline Oliveros to Missy Elliott.

Books

Awkward Bastardry: How The Music Of The North-East Hits Different

With his new book *The North Will Rise Again* published this week by Bloomsbury, author Alex Niven asks why the music of England's north-east is so often overlooked compared to its southern or western neighbours

Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast Seven: Mariam Rezaei On Turntablism

The seventh in our subscriber only series of podcasts features Mariam Rezaei talking about the often misunderstood art of turntablism and the pros and cons of having one foot in the hip hop camp and one foot in the world of experimental music

A Quietus Interview

Fingers On The Vinyl: Mariam Rezaei Interviewed

In the run up to her duo performance at Tusk Festival with Stephen Bishop, Al Cameron speaks to Tyneside turntablist and experimental music lynchpin Mariam Rezaei

News 1

Portugal’s OUT.FEST Outlines Full Lineup for 2024 Edition

Mariam Rezaei and Nídia & Valentina are among the final additions to the bill

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Film

Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

Film

You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

Film

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

Film

Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

Film

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

Film

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

Film

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

Film

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Reviews 2

Spool’s Out: The Best Tapes Of 2020

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Tristan Bath

Articles 4

Back Spinning: Mariam Rezaei’s Favourite Music

Awkward Bastardry: How The Music Of The North-East Hits Different

Low Culture Podcast Seven: Mariam Rezaei On Turntablism

Fingers On The Vinyl: Mariam Rezaei Interviewed

News 1

Portugal’s OUT.FEST Outlines Full Lineup for 2024 Edition

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