Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
JR: I could tell that the guys making this thing knew what they were doing. They just know how to invoke this wave of fucking emptiness. I love that. That they can get their message across really well; within the first five seconds you’re like, ‘here we go’. All their records are really great, and this is one of the first tracks I heard from them. The production’s amazing, the songwriting is really good. Everything is just spot on.
Jamie Skey returns with the latest Complete Communion jazz column, which features thoughts on Miles Davis' autobiography, a live review of Ahmad Jamal (pictured above), Mehliana, Pat Metheny Unity Group, Go Go Penguin and Iiro Rantala
Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan
Al Denney slips on something more comfortable to talk to Ryan Olson about why his Gayngs project is far from ironically smooth, and why getting the likes of Bon Iver to contribute to an album of the music they all jerk off to was no sweat
Following the launch of his Kapsela label and the recent release of a new two-track EP, the Berlin-based DJ and producer talks singing Tears For Fears at karaoke as a child and teenage discoveries of Autechre, Björk, At The Drive-In and much more
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