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Reviews 12

Dustbowl Delights: Houghton 2022 Reviewed

The Month’s Electronic Music: Selective Reflection

Fighting Homogenisation: Dekmantel Reviewed

To Dance & Disappear: Lauren Martin On Moscow’s Outline Festival

Hazy Euphoria: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2015

Towards An Unknown Resolution: Bloc Weekend 2015 Reviewed

Ben UFO

Fabriclive 67

The Shock Of The End: Krakow’s Unsound Festival Deconstructed

So High, Solo: Barcelona’s Sonar Festival Reviewed

Ben UFO

Rinse: 016

Cross-Genre Delights: Incubate Festival 2011

FWD>>, Backward, Outward: Dubstep Night’s 10th Birthday

Articles 7

A Quietus Interview

Systems Align: Joy Orbison & Ben Vince Interviewed

Following the release of their first collaborative record on Hessle Audio earlier this month, Joy Orbison and Ben Vince discuss the process behind pairing live saxophone and club music and the changing dynamics of London's clubs
Black Sky Thinking

A Fine Blend: The Quietus Writers’ Favourite DJ Mix Albums

Following yesterday's celebration of Coldcut's illustrious mix album 70 Minutes Of Madness, tQ writers have contributed a selection of their favourite DJ mixes, taking in sets from Surgeon, Carl Craig, Shackleton, Grouper, Perc and many more
Black Sky Thinking

Burn Up The Floor: Pop & Politics In 2013 Dance Music

At the end of an exhausting year in club music, Rory Gibb reflects back upon 2013 on and off the dancefloor, and considers some of the political, social and technological issues facing the dance music community in the near future
Baker's Dozen

Aides-Memoires: Ben UFO Selects 13 Favourite Records

Ahead of Hessle Audio's three-room takeover of Fabric this Friday, the DJ and Hessle Audio co-founder rifles through his record collection and discusses thirteen particular favourites with Rory Gibb
Black Sky Thinking

Wreath Lectures 2011: Club Beats From The Digital Ether

This year, as artists have turned up the heat on the murky, semi-structured stew of post-noise pop, argues Rory Gibb, dancefloor shapes have started to emerge from beneath the clearing vapours
Black Sky Thinking

Lesbian Propaganda & Other Myths: Misogyny In Dance Music

Angus Finlayson examines a disturbing trend towards misogyny in dance music circles, and contrasts that current shift with the promises of equality ushered in by the genesis of house music and the early days of rave

A Quietus Interview

Flying High With Hessle Audio: An Interview With Ben UFO

Angus Finlayson talks to Ben Thomson about the history of Hessle Audio and the dubstep scene

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