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From Warehouse To Web: Electronic/Dance Tracks Of 2012 & Mix
Rory Gibb takes you on a detailed trip through some of the year's defining tracks in electronic and dance music - from reductionist garage and construction-site ambient to junglist collage and quicklime grime - plus listen to a mix containing all 25 tracks
A Quietus Interview
If This Is Heaven I’m Bailing Out: The Death Of The Birthday Party
Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Mogwai’s Young Team & CODY
Mogwai had to build a new world, apart from the mendacity of Britpop and the high postmodern sheen of New Labour, in order to create space for gestation. Their first two albums present a brilliant journey getting underway, says Danny Wright. Homepage portrait by Andy Willshire
