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Hazy Debauchery: Comets On Fire Interviewed
Ahead of their set at the final ATP holiday camp festival this weekend, Californian noise rockers Comets On Fire tell Colm McAuliffe about reuniting, psychedelic "secret handshakes" and memories (or what's left them) of holiday camp weekenders past
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Sonic Router 031: A Touch Of Frost – Logos Interviewed
Sonic Router's Oli Marlow sits down with Logos, the London-based producer behind Cold Mission, one of the year's most striking 'dance' albums, to talk devil mixes, reshaping sonic language and taking grime into the deep freeze
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Making Eyes At Suburban Boys: Talking Truths With Real Lies
New London group Real Lies make nocturnal, rave-tinged love songs to the fringes of London. Luke Turner spoke to them about youth, the romance of the suburbs, and why the pothead bros of East London are denying their own youth
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Anatomy Of An Engima: An Interview With Autechre
With Autechre's new EP, 'L-event', just released, Charlie Frame catches up with the veteran electronic duo's Rob Brown to discuss music and memory, this year's sprawling 'Exai' album, and the methods and ideas that underlie each of the new EP's tracks
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Molten Meditations: Jim Jarmusch & SQÜRL Interviewed
With their second EP just released through ATP Recordings, Manish Agarwal sits down with SQÜRL - the trio of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Shane Stoneback and Carter Logan - to discuss their fuzzed-out rock explorations, covering Elvis and dreaming about 'Dead Naked Hippies'
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Uneasy Listening: An Interview With Sky Needle
Brisbane's Sky Needle are the sound of fever dreams and dehydrated desert hallucinations given physical form, churning out sickly improvisations on ramshackle home-built instruments. Sanjay Fernandes talks to the band's Joel Stern about new LP Debased Shapes and the art of self-sabotage
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Drum & Haze: An Interview & Mix From Ricardo Tobar
Ricardo Tobar has just released his debut album of melody-soaked, atmospheric techno, Treillis. He speaks to Joe Clay about a love of shoegaze and growing up in Chile, plus has recorded us an exclusive Quietus mix which you can listen to below
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Radio-Activity: An Interview With Felix Kubin
With his great new album Zemsta Plutona just released, the unique German sci-fi synth-pop explorer and sound artist speaks to David Stubbs about musical deconstruction, radio art, and reconnecting Germany with the culture of Eastern Europe
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Rorschach Effect: Nate Young Talks Regression & Wolf Eyes
Nate Young has had a busy year, presiding over the return of Wolf Eyes on ferocious form and guiding his Regression solo electronic project into hypnotic zones. He speaks to Ian Maleney about improvisation, manual labour, and how Wolf Eyes are becoming even more unhinged with age
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Transcendental Mediation: An Interview With The Orb
With The Orb's new retrospective box set recently released, Exotic Pylon lizard lord Jonny Mugwump speaks to Alex Patterson about industrial ambient dub, the social conditions that fed into the 90s rave explosion, and working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry
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Recombination Therapy: An Interview With Larry Gus
The richly textured pop of Larry Gus' latest album Years Not Living, released through DFA, emerges from a process of sound recombination inspired equally by literature and mathematics. He speaks to Ned Raggett about Borges, Ballard and a love of density in sound
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A Life Bizarre: Sheila E Interviewed
Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)
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Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited
The Metal Machine Trio tour of the UK and Europe starts this Sunday. Their leader Lou Reed has always trod the fine line between 'rock & roll star' and 'serious artist', and never more so than on his 1975 album, _Metal Machine Music_. John Doran asks him about this period . . . and waits a painfully long time for the answers
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The Space Between One & Two: Sons Of Kemet Interviewed
London's Shabaka Hutchings and Tom Skinner sit down with Tristan Bath to discuss the free-flowing and vibrant grooves of their new quartet Sons Of Kemet, and how they emerge from a desire to explore the hidden currents linking the world's musics together
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No Affectation Of Misery: An Interview With Matthew Loveridge AKA MXLX
Inhabiting myriad identities to build an enormous catalogue of experimental music, Matthew Loveridge’s fascinating career was briefly paralysed by personal hardship. As he returns, Alastair Shuttleworth speaks to the enigmatic composer about anhedonia, abrasiveness, and the difficult birth of his new masterpiece
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Reissue Of The Week: Wendy Carlos’ Tron OST
Though Wendy Carlos’ legacy is often unfairly undermined, her newly reissued Tron soundtrack is more than a superficial artefact of ‘80s aesthetics; it’s a vital chapter in the development of the synthesiser unfolding right before your ears
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The Vinyl Staircase: June In Record Buying Misery By John Doran
John Doran goes to Margate to visit the newly opened Transmission and casts his eyes over a box set by Cluster, appreciates the work of Pharaway Sounds and checks the 'new' Units LP... All photographs by author unless otherwise stated
