A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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Pink Sky Thinking: An Interview With Nathan Fake
This summer's Steam Days album found Norfork's Nathan Fake continuing to sink deeper into his own idiosyncratic and woozy take on techno and electronica. In advance of a tour with Orbital next month, he speaks to Jim Keoghan about folk ethics and working solo
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Supremely Demolished Beats: An Interview With Pete Swanson
From the rhythm-driven noise of last year's Man With Potential to a new album with Sarin Smoke, Pete Swanson has traveled along remarkable paths since his former duo Yellow Swans disbanded. He tells Joseph Burnett that beats have always been crucial to his music
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A Line In The Sand: Untold & Hemlock Discuss UK Dance Music
Hemlock is one of the most enduring labels to have emerged from the shadows of the dubstep scene. With a new compilation just released, Angus Finlayson meets label bosses Untold & Andy Spencer and signee Randomer to talk UK dance music's past, present & future
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Caffeine Funk: An Interview With Cajmere
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
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Harmonies & Disharmonies: Dusk & Blackdown Interviewed
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
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Intricate Shadows: An Interview With Raime
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
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Raw Functionality: An Interview With Emptyset
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
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Ahead Of The Game: An Interview With Pangaea
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
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“If I Hit You, You’d Feel It”: Leslie Winer, Trip Hop’s Forgotten Pioneer
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
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You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed
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
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Life On Mars: East India Youth Interviewed
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
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Mud, Glorious Mud: An Interview With Andy Stott
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"
