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10 reccomended entry points into an artist’s back catalogue
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The Strange World Of… Deerhoof
As they release their fifteenth album Future Teenage Cave Artists, Deerhoof take Patrick Clarke on a freewheeling ride through ten highlights from their career, from doing laundry halfway through a gig to the remote island school that set a ballet to their music
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The Strange World Of… Rowland S Howard
Julian Marszalek spoke with colleagues and fans of the pioneering musician Rowland S Howard, including Mick Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Harry Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Jonnine Standish, Daniel Miller and Henry Rollins, in order to get to grips with his work
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The Strange World Of… Stereolab
From DIY beginnings in McCarthy, to situationism, to establishing the influential Duophonic Records, to influencing future bands like Deerhunter, Lottie Brazier charts the remarkable voyage of one of France and Britain’s most successful co-achievements besides the Channel Tunnel: Stereolab
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Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse: The Strange World Of… Daniel Higgs
Daniel Higgs has built a legacy in the pursuit of his own spiritual truth. Ahead of an appearance at Terraforma festival he talks Matthew Neale through his back catalogue, with detours via mass media indoctrination, a drive-by shooting, and the mystery of how cassettes work
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There Is No Neutral: The Strange World Of… Mark Stewart
Wherein the towering frontman of The Pop Group and The Maffia takes occasional breaks from busting writer Dustin Krcatovich's chops to look back on four decades of fire theft, including the recently reissued 1983 album Learning To Cope With Cowardice
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The Strange World Of… Julius Eastman
In spite of a gradually accelerating reappraisal, a full portrait of composer Julius Eastman will most likely never surface, says Aimee Armstrong. Instead we’re left to track him through anecdotes, odd photographs and his politically charged and aggressively honest personal composition. A preview for this year's Intonal Festival.
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The Strange World Of… Sublime Frequencies
Ahead of a night dedicated to the label as part of Berlin's Find The File festival, Alan Bishop, one of the founders of Sublime Frequencies, picks ten points of entry into the crucial label's extraordinary back catalogue of sounds from across the globe
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The Strange World Of… Awesome Tapes From Africa
Label founder Brian Shimkovitz talks to Richie Troughton about how his blog of obscure and rarely heard cassettes from Africa became a record label determined to locate artists and see them finally get the acclaim they deserve for their work
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A Raging Peace: The Strange World Of… Hans-Joachim Roedelius
About to turn 84 and still going strong, Hans-Joachim Roedelius has led a long and extraordinary life, which has taken in Nazi Germany, postwar turmoil, the birth of Krautrock and working with Michael Rother and Brian Eno among others. His mind, however, is fixed on the present and the future, he tells David Stubbs
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The Strange World Of… Jon Hassell
Before the release of Listening To Pictures: (Pentimento Volume One), his first new album in nine years and the launch of his own imprint label on Warp, experimental trumpeter and composer Jon Hassell talks Claire Sawers through ten important works in his back catalogue -- including one he wished he’d put his name to, and one still stuck in the pipeline
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The Strange World Of… Charles Hayward
Cologne had Can and Jaki Liebezeit, South London had This Heat and Charles Hayward. Sean Kitching talks to the THINTH, Camberwell Now, Massacre and Monkey Puzzle Trio, drummer, singer and songwriter ahead of his performance at this weekend's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham
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The Strange World Of… Childish Gambino
Just over a decade ago Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino was a promising young comic actor and script writer who had a not very convincing side line as an indie hip hop musician. Aimee Armstrong examines how he became the world-bestriding talent who released This Is America
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Perpetuating The Mystery: The Strange World of… The Necks
So, you've only heard Sex by The Necks... well, where do you go next? Thirty years into a career of ever-blossoming sonic exploration, Joe Richards has been speaking to Tony Buck (drums and percussion) and Lloyd Swanton (bass), two thirds of The Necks, ahead of their European tour and sold out show at Café OTO
