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Reissue of the Week: Soft Cell’s Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing

Seedy English vignettes supercharged by the bombast of New York's superclubs – though they didn't then know it then, the world's first modern remix album found Soft Cell on a seesaw between hedonism and self-destruction, says Patrick Clarke

A Rave Affair: An Interview With Eomac

Both solo and as one half of Lakker, Dublin's Eomac is responsible for some of the most wiry, intricate and freakily banging club music around right now. Playing Corsica Studios this weekend, he tells Theo Darton-Moore about capturing the elusive energy of rave and his stellar new LP Spectre

The Month In Electronic Music: Raw Soul

In his latest electronic music column, Rory Gibb recalls the visceral thrill of DJ Rashad live, plus reviews new excursions in dubbed-out pop and techno from Throwing Shade, Inga Copeland, Allison Chanic, Call Super, Fade To Mind and more

Satan’s Scapegoat: The Daily Mail & Blaming Metal For Murder

The Daily Mail has once more blamed listening to heavy metal as in some way contributory to the tragic murder of Ann Maguire, and a recent teenage suicide. Joel McIver explains why this argument needs to be challenged

New York Blues: Four Decades Of Suicide, Martin Rev & Alan Vega

After MIA borrowed 'Ghostrider' for her new single and the duo supported The Stooges this past weekend, Luke Turner takes a look at Suicide's 40 years of noise

Peer Reviewed: Jlin interviews Max Richter… And Vice Versa

Footwork producer Jlin speaks to composer Max Richter in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another

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Layers Upon Layers: An Interview With Phonodelica

Drawing upon sound samples, classical training in piano and personal and wider histories, Donia Jarrar spoke with Ned Raggett about creating the Phonodelica project, dealing with teenage friends dissing her about Björk and when her parents mistook a guitar for a train

Three Album Run: 21st Century Pop Has Never Bettered 4, Beyoncé & Lemonade

At the quarter way mark Stephanie Phillips is confident that nothing comes close to the brilliance of this consecutive trio of albums by Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter

Been Around The World: The Magical Odyssey Of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You

A concept album that transcended its concept, a stealth mix-CD, global disco, sampledelic exotica, yacht rock by other means: the Australian group’s debut was many things, writes David Bennun - and above all it was, and remains, a joy

Low Culture Podcast: Octavia E Butler’s Parable Of The Sower

In February's edition of our subscriber podcast John Doran and Luke Turner investigate Octavia E Butler's prescient 1993 novel Parable Of The Sower (and have a chat about Depeche Mode and the new Fargo)

Low Culture Podcast: La Haine

In this month's subscriber podcast John Doran and Luke Turner revisit Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film of racial tensions and police brutality in the French suburbs