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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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It All Comes Back To Garage: DJ Q Interviewed
Bassline and garage innovator DJ Q's debut album Ineffable hit 2014 with a thrilling and much-needed blast of UK rave-pop. Following the album's release earlier this year, Rory Gibb catches up with him to chat feelgood music, perfectionism and the demise of bassline
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Sonic Router 034: Airhead Blasts The Dancefloor
The formerly delicate electronica of London-based musician Airhead has just taken a thrillingly warped swerve towards the dancefloor. For our latest Sonic Router column, he meets Oli Marlow to discuss how club experiences have informed his explosive upcoming Hemlock 12"
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Telepathic Relations: An Interview With Shabazz Palaces
The astral hip hop of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces conjures up a disorienting and thrilling patchwork of shifting moods and sensations. Laura Snoad speaks to vocalist Ishmael Butler about new album Lese Majesty, the science fiction of Octavia Butler, and the importance of ambiguity
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The Human Machine: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Interviewed
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects
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Who Lights Up The Dance? An Interview With Flowdan
Commissioned by Kevin Martin as part of our Bug Week, Rory Gibb meets Flowdan, one of the most distinctive voices in grime and beyond, to discuss Jamaican sound system culture's influence on UK music and the origins of The Bug's mighty anthem 'Skeng'
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A Giant Dub Machine: An Interview With Sendai
Ahead of their performance at Berlin Atonal this week, Albert Freeman catches up with Peter Van Hoesen and Yves De Mey, to discuss the exploratory impulses that feed into the jagged techno landscapes of their collaborative project Sendai
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Real Talk: A Film About Sleaford Mods
With Divide And Exit, Sleaford Mods made one of our favourite albums of the year, an original, visceral portrait of the UK in 2014. In a short film, Louis Pattison meets the duo, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, in Nottingham to discuss their writing process, mod culture and being gobby
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Infinitely Inspired By The Club: Total Freedom Interviewed
The DJ sets and collage edits of LA's Total Freedom dissolve R&B, pop and rap into churning noise and razor beats, distorting time and space in the club. He meets Alexander Iadarola to discuss a fascination with club cultures, and folllowing the impulse to fuck with dancers' pleasure centres
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If This Is Heaven I’m Bailing Out: The Death Of The Birthday Party
Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race
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I Put A Spell On You: The Story Of Bark Psychosis & Hex
Twenty years after their debut album, Hex, Bark Psychosis' legacy may not be widely celebrated, but their influence is pervasive. Wyndham Wallace tells the complex, definitive story of the pioneering band that first provoked the term 'post-rock'…
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Blessed By The Sabbath: Pallbearer Interviewed
With the release of their formidable second album Foundations Of Burden imminent, Dean Brown talks to the Arkansas metal crew about their development since debut Sorrow And Extinction and why doom has the capacity for emotional catharsis
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A Certain Spirit: An Interview With Moiré
London-based producer of exquisitely tripped-out techno Moiré is about to release his debut album Shelter through Actress' Werkdiscs label. In his first major interview, he tells Rob Heath about drawing influence from visual art and films, and using music as a means to leave reality behind
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In Our Blood: Slint Discuss Spiderland’s Enduring Appeal
With the band bound for the UK next week, Nick Hutchings gets an update from Britt Walford, David Pajo and Todd Brashear, discussing a new generation of fans, the Breadcrumb Trail documentary and revisiting their seminal second album
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Ecstatic Impulses: An Interview With Death Shanties
Ahead of their performance at Supernormal this weekend, Stewart Smith meets mixed-media free jazz trio Death Shanties to discuss their fiery and weird debut album Crabs, "balls to the wall" improvisation, and exploding folk forms
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Ritual Music For The Accumulation Of Energy: Anji Cheung Interviewed
The transportive, ritualistic drones of London's Anji Cheung conjure up portals to uncanny other worlds, heavy with the thrill of the unknown. Ahead of her performance at Supernormal this weekend, she meets Jimmy Martin to discuss a fascination with the occult, and how Throbbing Gristle and Coil have inspired her music's trips into inner space
