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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
This month Curtis Jones - the man behind iconic house and techno anthems as Cajmere and Green Velvet - is releasing a retrospective of music from his seminal label Cajual. He speaks to Melissa Bradshaw about the house scene, spirituality and coffee
Dusk & Blackdown's new album Dasaflex is a seamless synthesis of the last near-decade's worth of UK dancefloor innovation, from garage and grime through dubstep and funky. They speak to Rory Gibb about finding new twists on established formulae
Across a string of 12"s and now an album, London duo Raime have stretched industrial, dub and doom across spiraling, jungle influenced rhythms. They meet with Joseph Burnett to discuss intricate working processes and darkness in creativity
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
Hessle Audio co-head Pangaea creates roiling techno/garage hybrids that draw energy from UK pirate radio and soundsystem music history. He speaks to Eleanor Careless about his most substantial record to date, Release, and why rules in music are stifling
Some say that Leslie Winer aka © invented trip hop in 1990 with her album, Witch. Now she’s back with a retrospective compilation and Wyndham Wallace meets the reclusive former supermodel. Main picture by Sébastien Chou
The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits
East India Youth's self-released, bedroom-crafted TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER was one of our surprise discoveries of this year, and swiftly graduated to regular Quietus office listening. A karaoke session later, he tells Laurie Tuffrey how the record came together
Across a pair of EPs last year and now a new album, Luxury Problems, Manchester's Andy Stott has gradually been sinking techno and house deep into a quagmire of mud and dust. He speaks to Ryan Diduck about the desire to create "something really beautiful"
Shadowy London unit Old Apparatus create strange, dark and beguiling electronic music for a new age of societal ruin. They speak to Charlie Fox about the pleasures of decay, and have recorded us an excellent mix which you can listen to below
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