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Subtext label boss Paul Jebanasam is one of several Bristol-based musicians blurring boundaries between contemporary composition, process-based recording and the colossal physicality of sound system culture. With his debut album just released, he explains to Pavel Godfrey how "melody has a way of surviving everything"
The recent announcement that the OED had made "GIF" its word of the year prompts Ryan Diduck to consider the similarities of that tiny looping file format to culture in 2012, and why, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, being doomed to repeat ourselves might not be entirely a bad thing
Since his steel-plated dubstep duo Vex'd disbanded, Roly Porter has been exploring post-human wastelands, folk forms and sensual electronics. In advance of a London show next week, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about last year's debut album Aftertime and working in solitude
Using effects, processors and old buildings as resonance chambers, Emptyset's stripped-down electronic music plays tricks with space and time. They speak to Rory Gibb about new EP Collapsed, hardware imprinting and allowing machines to take control
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