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Anniversary
Ore Ore Ore: The Andrea True Connection’s More More More
Fifty years ago, a spat over the international market in aluminium and a porn star catching flu while working in Jamaica led to disco's most unlikely crossover into the pop charts. Wrongtom takes us through the remarkable story of 'More More More'
Anniversary
Ore Ore Ore: The Andrea True Connection’s More More More
Fifty years ago, a spat over the international market in aluminium and a porn star catching flu while working in Jamaica led to disco's most unlikely crossover into the pop charts. Wrongtom takes us through the remarkable story of 'More More More'
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’
Newly reissued to mark its 40th birthday, ‘Ring The Alarm’ continues to rattle speaker boxers and make sound men and women tremble. Wrongtom charts the history of its Stalag rhythm, from overlooked origins in the early 1970s to Tenor Saw’s 1985 masterpiece and beyond
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’
Newly reissued to mark its 40th birthday, ‘Ring The Alarm’ continues to rattle speaker boxers and make sound men and women tremble. Wrongtom charts the history of its Stalag rhythm, from overlooked origins in the early 1970s to Tenor Saw’s 1985 masterpiece and beyond
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory
Anniversary
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
Anniversary
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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A Quietus Interview
Loopflesh: Justin Broadrick And Robert Hampson Interviewed
Mr Neil Kulkarni - who may be a self-confessed balding 40-year old but is still unreasonably handsome - talks to Robert Hampson and Justin Broadrick about why Loop and Godflesh are not touring for the benefit of the hairless and aged. Classic Loop photo courtesy Mr Tom Sheehan
A Quietus Interview
The Space Between One & Two: Sons Of Kemet Interviewed
London's Shabaka Hutchings and Tom Skinner sit down with Tristan Bath to discuss the free-flowing and vibrant grooves of their new quartet Sons Of Kemet, and how they emerge from a desire to explore the hidden currents linking the world's musics together
Television
Notes On True Detective: Night Country By Eugene Thacker & Tariq Goddard
The pessimistic philosophical text In The Dust Of This Planet was an influence on Season 1 of True Detective; its author and publisher settle in for the long dark night of Season 4. Contains some light spoilers for early episodes of Night Country
Rock's Backpages
Big Time Astrology: A Classic Bjork Interview By Jon Savage
Given that new material is imminent, we thought we'd bring you a classic interview with one of our favourite singers, Björk conducted in 1995, as it goes, by one of our favourite writers, Jon Savage, courtesy of Rock's Backpages
