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Organic Intelligence XXII: Scottish Avant-Jazz and Improvised Music

In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Stewart Smith introduces us to the wildly diverse world of Scottish free jazz and improv, from a 70s Peel Session to the present day via Bill Wells (pictured above) and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

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INTERVIEW: Luke Abbott

Border Community producer answers questions ahead of his appearance at Portugal's Semibreve Festival later this week

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Shadows Of The Trellick Tower: Don Letts Of Big Audio Dynamite Interviewed

Mark Emsley talks to Don Letts about the history of Big Audio Dynamite and the new deluxe edition of their debut album

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Tresor Details New Archival Book, ‘Tresor: True Stories’

The early days of the famed Berlin techno institution are revisited across more than 400 photos and other archival material

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Featuring members of Guttersnipe, Hawthonn, and Slaylor Moon, Tristwch Y Fenywod spin wild, esoteric fables (with just a touch of disco)

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Hyperlocal At Cafe Oto

London/Buenos Aires cooperative event has announced its line-up for this year's edition

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Reveal Yourself: An Interview with Martha Skye Murphy

Patrick Clarke tracks down Martha Skye Murphy to discuss temporal distortion, vulnerability, Cold War aesthetics, and the struggle between revelation and secrecy that defines her debut album UM

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Unsound Announce London Event

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Summer 13: Malcolm Middleton’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his sixth album, Summer Of '13, and before Arab Strap play their anniversary gigs later this year, the musician talks Nicola Meighan through the records that have had the biggest effect on him

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Let Me Rock You: Chaka Khan’s ‘I Feel For You’ at 40

40 years after it stormed to the UK number one, Wrongtom charts the history of ‘I Feel For You’, from an overlooked Prince album track to Chaka Khan’s smash hit, via Stevie Wonder, Patrice Rushen, glitching tape machines, the death of Sugar Hill Records and more

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What Do You Think Of It So Far?: Usurper at Counterflows

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