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Reviews 6

The Month In Electronic Music: Raw Soul

Hyperspecific’s Electronic/Dance 12″s Of 2011 In Words & A Mix

Make Your Transition: Future Shocked At Krakow’s Unsound Festival

Rory Gibb’s Second Electronic Music Round-up Review Column

Why In With The New Is The Best Policy: Sonar Festival 2011 Review

Hype Williams
One Nation

Articles 5

Black Sky Thinking

GIFwave, Groundhog Day & Culture After The Apocalypse

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

Black Sky Thinking

The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

Minimal techno, black metal, witch house, goth... Why is so much of the music we listen to so bleak, asks Ryan Diduck

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

In Search Of Hype Williams: Their Final Communication

While attempting to nail down Hype Williams in interview form, Rory Gibb muses on this most elusive of the new breed of bass

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Dragnet #6: New Music From FaltyDL, Hype Williams And Joy Orbison

Loitering at the fringes of the MySpace melee

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Baker's Dozen

Where I’m Coming From: Visionist’s 13 Favourite Albums

From a love for choral music inspired by his grandmother, to discovering Steve Reich at school, setting up a label just to release SD Laika and seeing Cocteau Twins on Top Of The Pops 2, Visionist picks the thirteen albums that made him the artist he is today

News 20

LISTEN: New Hype Williams

Hype Williams are back, without Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland

Hype Williams Share New Music

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland's project shares four new tracks

LISTEN: Unheard Hype Williams

Illusive duo upload previously unreleased and unheard track to Soundcloud; listen below

GALLERY: Aylin Güngör

The Istanbul-based photographer shows us a few images from her new book, Oturduğum Yerden (From Where I Am), and tells us about shooting musicians in her home city over the last decade

Inga Copeland Announces Solo LP

Former Hype Williams artist announces eight-track, self-released album, which includes a collaboration with Actress

LIVE REPORT: Dean Blunt

Taking the private strains of his recent The Redeemer album onto the stage, sometime Hype Williams man Dean Blunt's show at the 100 Club baffled, delighted and destroyed in equal measure, writes Tristan Bath

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt Album

Listen to a new album from the sometime Hype Williams man, in advance of European tour dates this November

LISTEN: PVT – Vertigo (Hype Williams Remix)

Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, and John Hughes, rework the Australian electronic trio's cut

LISTEN: Dean Blunt – 'Papi'

Listen to a track taken from Dean Blunt's first official solo album

Hype Williams London Show

Band to play rare one-off date at Tufnell Park in November

Dean Blunt’s The Narcissist II Re-Released

Hype Williams member's online mixtape gets a physical release via Hippos In Tanks

LIVE REPORT: Bozar Electronic Arts Fest

With its expansion this year into a forum for both electronic music and arts, Brussels' Bozar Electronic Arts Festival proves an intriguing prospect with great potential. Words: Laurent Fintoni, Photos: Caroline Lessire

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt

'Palace Pavillion', taken from new album

LISTEN: Dean Blunt – ‘Flaxen’

Listen to a new track apparently from The Narcissist III, the follow-up to Dean Blunt's free mixtape The Narcissist II

Supersonic: More New Acts Announced

Birmingham festival, from 19th-21st October, hots up with new names including Hype Williams and Ufomammut (pictured)

LISTEN: New The Bug! Plus New Label

Kevin Martin returns as The Bug, launches a new label called Acid Ragga - listen to a clip of a new track below

LIVE REPORT: Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland

The duo sometimes-or-formerly-known-as Hype Williams played a tiny London show for the release of new album Black Is Beautiful last night, April 16th. It served to highlight the brilliance of their elegant and dread-filled music, says Rory Gibb

DOWNLOAD: Free Hype Williams Album

Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland give away The Attitude Era via The Guardian

WATCH: Hype Williams Trailer

Typically cryptic teaser clip for Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland's upcoming Hyperdub full-length

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt/Hype Williams

Listen to The Narcissist II, a record by Hype Williams' Dean Blunt, plus details on new album

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Reviews 6

The Month In Electronic Music: Raw Soul

Hyperspecific’s Electronic/Dance 12″s Of 2011 In Words & A Mix

Make Your Transition: Future Shocked At Krakow’s Unsound Festival

Rory Gibb’s Second Electronic Music Round-up Review Column

Why In With The New Is The Best Policy: Sonar Festival 2011 Review

Hype Williams One Nation

Articles 5

GIFwave, Groundhog Day & Culture After The Apocalypse

The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness

Wreath Lectures 2011: Club Beats From The Digital Ether

In Search Of Hype Williams: Their Final Communication

Dragnet #6: New Music From FaltyDL, Hype Williams And Joy Orbison

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Where I’m Coming From: Visionist’s 13 Favourite Albums

News 20

LISTEN: New Hype Williams

Hype Williams Share New Music

LISTEN: Unheard Hype Williams

GALLERY: Aylin Güngör

Inga Copeland Announces Solo LP

LIVE REPORT: Dean Blunt

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt Album

LISTEN: PVT – Vertigo (Hype Williams Remix)

LISTEN: Dean Blunt – 'Papi'

Hype Williams London Show

Dean Blunt’s The Narcissist II Re-Released

LIVE REPORT: Bozar Electronic Arts Fest

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt

LISTEN: Dean Blunt – ‘Flaxen’

Supersonic: More New Acts Announced

LISTEN: New The Bug! Plus New Label

LIVE REPORT: Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland

DOWNLOAD: Free Hype Williams Album

WATCH: Hype Williams Trailer

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt/Hype Williams

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