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Books
Sight Lines & Separations: Recording Killing Joke’s Debut Album
Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut
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Sight Lines & Separations: Recording Killing Joke’s Debut Album
Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut
Books
Electric Dreams: Why There’s More To Synths Than The Keyboard
For half a century, synthesizer design has been dominated by the piano keyboard, but things could have gone another way. Author of a new book for Velocity Press called Synthesizer Evolution, Oli Freke takes a look at some of the roads not taken by electronic music
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Electric Dreams: Why There’s More To Synths Than The Keyboard
For half a century, synthesizer design has been dominated by the piano keyboard, but things could have gone another way. Author of a new book for Velocity Press called Synthesizer Evolution, Oli Freke takes a look at some of the roads not taken by electronic music
Black Sky Thinking
Solidarity Beyond Borders: Why Artist Visas Are More Than A Brexit Issue
The ending of visa-free travel for artists threatens the livelihoods of many musicians, especially in the underground. Yet while fighting for change to these Brexit rules, we must consider the wider implications for those beyond the EU, and how attitudes to migration reflect Britain's colonial history, argue Fielding Hope, Mariam Rezaei and Stewart Smith
Black Sky Thinking
Solidarity Beyond Borders: Why Artist Visas Are More Than A Brexit Issue
The ending of visa-free travel for artists threatens the livelihoods of many musicians, especially in the underground. Yet while fighting for change to these Brexit rules, we must consider the wider implications for those beyond the EU, and how attitudes to migration reflect Britain's colonial history, argue Fielding Hope, Mariam Rezaei and Stewart Smith
Tracks of the Year
Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2020
These are our favourite tracks of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck
Tracks of the Year
Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2020
These are our favourite tracks of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck
In Conversation
Peer Reviewed: Kelly Moran Interviews Prurient… And Vice Versa
Contemporary composer and pianist Kelly Moran speaks to industrial techno maven, Dominick Fernow in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another
In Conversation
Peer Reviewed: Kelly Moran Interviews Prurient… And Vice Versa
Contemporary composer and pianist Kelly Moran speaks to industrial techno maven, Dominick Fernow in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another
Reissues etc. of the Year
Quietus Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)
These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes and etceteras of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Fergal Kinney, Ella Kemp, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck
Reissues etc. of the Year
Quietus Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)
These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes and etceteras of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Fergal Kinney, Ella Kemp, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck
Albums of the Year
Quietus Albums Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)
These are our favourite albums of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Fergal Kinney, Ella Kemp, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck
Albums of the Year
Quietus Albums Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)
These are our favourite albums of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Fergal Kinney, Ella Kemp, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck
Books
Magical Literary Tour: Matthew Ingram’s Retreat Reading List
In his new book, Retreat, Matthew Ingram explores the legacy left by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s upon our very modern obsession with health and well-being. Here he shares some of the stranger tomes he read in the course of researching it
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Magical Literary Tour: Matthew Ingram’s Retreat Reading List
In his new book, Retreat, Matthew Ingram explores the legacy left by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s upon our very modern obsession with health and well-being. Here he shares some of the stranger tomes he read in the course of researching it
Black Sky Thinking
Welcome To Techno Hell: Container Has One For The Road
The first in a new series. Now that a question mark hangs over the future of live touring, we ask some of our favourite artists to tell us about some of their more eventful experiences on the road. Ren Schofield, aka Container, casts his mind back to a bumpy few days visiting Eastern Europe
Black Sky Thinking
Welcome To Techno Hell: Container Has One For The Road
The first in a new series. Now that a question mark hangs over the future of live touring, we ask some of our favourite artists to tell us about some of their more eventful experiences on the road. Ren Schofield, aka Container, casts his mind back to a bumpy few days visiting Eastern Europe
