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The Magical Spectrum: Bianca Scout & Cajm Interviewed
Ahead of their collaboration at the PAF Olomouc festival, Bianca Scout and Cajm discuss dance, sound and the quest for mysterious rocks near the Isle Of Man
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Here Are the 25 Best Dancefloor Bangers of the 21st Century So Far…
...according to our team of experts, that is. Writers Richard Akingbehin, Jaša Bužinel, Chal Ravens and Philip Sherburne join tQ's own Christian Eede to chart what they consider to be the defining club anthems of the century to this point. Words by Christian Eede
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Laser Focussed: FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field by Arnold Dreyblatt & Horse Lords
Team-up between the legendary minimalist composer and double-bassist with the kickass Baltimore freak rockers feels like a true meeting of minds, finds Levi Dayan
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The Strange World Of… David Lynch
Following the publication of his latest book, Lynchian, John Higgs provides ten entry points into the television, movies, short films and TV appearances of David Lynch
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for November by Daryl Worthington
From radical dance music to triumphant, intricately layered synth pop and a levitating collaboration between a Ugandan embaire ensemble and a Japanese dub producer, Daryl Worthington finds rays of joy on cassette to blast away the impending winter entropy this November
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Been Around The World: The Magical Odyssey Of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You
A concept album that transcended its concept, a stealth mix-CD, global disco, sampledelic exotica, yacht rock by other means: the Australian group’s debut was many things, writes David Bennun - and above all it was, and remains, a joy. This article was first published in 2020
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The Lodger In Me: Bid from The Monochrome Set on the Aneurysm that Changed His Life
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Strange Young Alien, the founder member and principal songwriter of the Monochrome Set discusses the ruptured cerebral aneurysm that changed the way he thought about music and the creative process
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Stroppy, Optimistic, Overdressed Young Men: Robert Elms Remembers the Blitz Club
Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties, a new book by Robert Elms, returns the reader to a bygone London of squats full of future popstars and cans of Red Stripe to recall the nightclub that birthed Spandau Ballet and Visage and might just have invented the future
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