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A Certain Ratio

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Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of January 2024

Your guide to the best in brand new music returns, with tQ's staff selecting their albums and tracks of January 2024

In Conversation

Rework: Maps Speaks To A Certain Ratio

With A Certain Ratio contributing an ambitious re-work to Maps' new series of EPs, which premieres exclusively with tQ, the band's Jez Kerr and Maps' James Chapman get together to talk the art of a good remix, the importance of limitation, and why drive-in gigs just simply won't suffice
A Quietus Interview

The State Of The 808: Paranoid London Interviewed

Kris Needs speaks to Quinn Whalley and Gerardo Delgado of Paranoid London about getting back to the sleazy, tough, party-starting basics when it comes to dynamic hardware-driven acid house. Portraits by Kate Green
Strange World Of...

Funk In A Cold Climate – The Strange World Of… A Certain Ratio

Factory Records stalwarts and pioneering groove alchemists A Certain Ratio take Ed Power on a guided tour of their strange, thrilling and sometimes humorous adventures in pop
Books

Drums Not Dead: An Interview With Si Wolstencroft

Mick Middles interviews the man whose book charts turning down a role in The Smiths, being an early member of the Stone Roses and eventually joining The Fall
Black Sky Thinking

Sweeping From The Factory Floor: The Label’s Final Years

Twenty years after the Factory Records empire collapsed, Stuart Huggett sifts through the wreckage of the label's final releases
A Quietus Interview

“You Should Get Out More!” A Certain Ratio Interviewed

Jez Kerr talks to Maddy Sparham about the influence of A Certain Ratio and the murky balance between art and commerce

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Baker's Dozen

Dancing & Defiance – Paul Flynn’s Soundtrack To 30 Years Of Gay Culture

To mark the anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, Paul Flynn (author of Good as You: From Prejudice to Pride, 30 Years of Gay Britain) chooses 13 records that soundtracked his life, from ACR to Elton and Lil Kim to Sleaford Mods.

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