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Just Another IDM LP? Squarepusher's Dostrotime, Continuity & Modernism
Dostrotime by Squarepusher The blazing lights of 90s British IDM – braindance, neurostep, sofa a...
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Unfulfilled Promise: Toronto, Drake & So Far Gone
It is 2014 and the Toronto Raptors are playing the Brooklyn Nets in an NBA Eastern Conference p...
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Remembering Yasmine Lakhaney, The UK’s First Female Nightclub Bouncer
Yasmine Lakhaney working on the door of the Haçienda, courtesy of Mirrorpix Given the stories ...
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I Can’t Accept That: University Challenge, Jungle And How Glibness Creates Bad History
“We need jungle…. We need jungle…. W-e-e-e-e-e n-n-e-e-e-e-d-d j-j-u-u-u-u-n-n-g-g-l-l-e…” On m...
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Why Elton John’s Watford FC Chairmanship Was His Finest Hour
Sometime in the early 1980s, Elton John bought a tram. On a downer after a multi-day bender, he...
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Spotify Wrapped & Apple Music Replay Vie To Be The "John Lewis Ad” Of Streaming
It is a hell of a conjuring trick. Spotify have made listening data, your listening data, not j...
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An Ungraspable Intelligence: Bird Song In The Time Of Collapse
In Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds, first published in 1952, our feathered friends stop singing a...
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Shadowplay: The Case For Regulating Online Ticket Touting
When a ticket tout complained to the Daily Record newspaper that the vast profit he was making...
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How Spotify Is Taking Crumbs From Quietus Artists’ Tables
The saloon doors burst open and the piano player stops dead. The frontiersmen look up from thei...
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Screen Wash: Are Music Docs Becoming Little More Than A PR Tool?
Peter Doherty is in full red military regalia and saluting. Union Jacks are draped everywhere, ...
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