With the Japanese trio embarking on a UK tour this week, Tristan Bath speaks with Nisennenmondai in a rare interview to discuss their mesmerising voyages into the interzone between noise, rock and dance music. Along the way he discovers that their commitment to minimalism stretches beyond their intensely stripped-back tracks...
For nearly 20 years Anthony Child, aka Surgeon, has sent dancers into collective states of hypnosis with his overwhelming, elliptical techno. Having just released a beatless album under his own name, he speaks with Rory Gibb about introspection, method acting, the importance of intention, and what continues to excite him about club music
Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment