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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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Body to Body: Ten Tracks That Tell the Story of Electronic Body Music
Yuma Hampejs and Marcel Schulze, authors of a new book, Eletronic Body Music, present a playlist that embodies the visceral, industrial heart of the genre, featuring seminal tracks from Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Chrome Corpse, and more
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Come Into The Centre of the Crystal: Zardoz and the Politics of Degrowth
Anthony Galluzzo's new book Against the Vortex uses John Boorman's cult sci-fi film as the starting point for exploring a neglected strand of '70s thinkers and artists whose ideas propose a radical degrowth utopia as the horizon to which our politics should be oriented
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Mad Dogs & Englishmen: Faust On Virgin Records
The story of Faust is one of the oddest in modern music, taking in terrorism, nakedness, cement mixers, prison and no small amount of groundbreaking music. Here, in an extract from a new oral history of krautrock, all of the major players remember the band's short, tumultuous and incredibly creative time at Virgin...
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That Goes In There: Jane Savidge On The Art Of This Is Hardcore
Jane Savidge was the co-founder and head of public relations company Savage & Best who looked after Pulp during their late 90s pomp. In an exclusive extract from her new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, she picks apart the tricky sexual politics of the group’s notorious cover art for *This is Hardcore*
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Melody Without A Form: An Interview with Arthur Russell & Peter Gordon
In an exclusive extract from her new book *Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990*, writer and radio host Brooke Wentz shares an interview from the WKCR-FM archives with pioneering Downtown musicians Arthur Russell and Peter Gordon talking ballet, rap music and ‘democratic music’
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Scene And Not Heard: Jesse Rifkin’s Playlist For NYC’s Lost Music Spaces
The new book by Jesse Rifkin, *This Must Be the Place* tracks the rise and fall of music scenes and the places that gave them succour. In his author playlist, he picks out 11 key tracks that exemplify those scenes, from the Greenwich Village folk revival to early 00s Brooklyn noise-rock, via loft jazz, punk rock, hip hop and more
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Better Red Than Dead: Towards A Socialist Black Metal
The history of black metal has been marred by lurid tales of church-burning fascists and the far-right represent an ongoing blot on the scene, but as *Tonight It’s A World We Bury* author Bill Peel argues, black metal remains a site of contestation with much to offer to left thought
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