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In a selection of excerpts from his recent Strange Attractor-published book, The Bright Labyrinth, Ken Hollings discusses - via John Cage and Edgard Varèse - mass production, organisation, repetition and the (perhaps only) advantage human beings have over machines. (Illustrations by Matthew Frame)
Before she plays Bloc this weekend, the Golden Pudel resident DJ and producer has an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the approach she takes to making music, the over-accelerated exposure cycle of new material and the creeping danger of virtual life
Tristan Bath returns with Spools Out, The Quietus' regular tape review column. This month he covers Shit & Shine, Broshuda, Deathcount In Silicone Valley, Silver Waves, Dikeman, Roger Tellier-Craig, Félicia Atkinson, Eartheater, Nigel Wrench, Black Spirituals and Extnddntwrk
Sub Pop recently issued a deluxe version of Father John Misty's album featuring a "bulging thickness" in the packaging that warped the vinyl beyond repair. But, says Robert Barry, this is just the latest in a rich history of self-destroying art
Before he plays Corsica Studios tomorrow night alongside Jam City, Total Freedom and others, Lotic talks to Seb Wheeler about Heterocetera, his intimate new EP for Tri Angle, and laying waste to sexless mainstream club culture with the Janus collective
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