Category: Music
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An Interview With Knifedoutofexistence
Dean Lloyd Robinson, the face behind both the noise project Knifedoutofexistence and label Outsider Art was kind enough to chat with me about running a label post-Brexit and post-pandemic, his influences, and a decade in noise. Outsider Art is now over a decade old, I’m curious how has the label changed in that time? The…
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An Interview With Distraxi
Alina Church of the south-coast noise project Distraxi was kind enough to chat to me about her music, the English noise scene, pain-as-hope, and more. You can get Distraxi’s music here, and donate to her GoFundMe here. Your self titled Distraxi record from last year was one of the best records of the year and…
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An Interview With Patrick Shiroishi
The wonderful Patrick Shiroishi was kind enough to chat to me about improvisation, influences and more. Listening to I Was Too Young To Hear The Silence, it struck me just how that titular silence is such a pronounced part of your recordings. What do you think is the value of silence and open space in…
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Some Thoughts On Burial’s Dreamfear and Boy Sent From Above
In the weeks leading up to Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above, the initial spark of excitement that burns in anticipation of new material from Burial dimmed – an announcement of its release on XL as opposed to Hyperdub disappointed those to whom the aesthetic sensibilities of Hyperdub, or certainly their memories of Hyperdub fifteen…
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An Interview With Alex Walton
The following is an interview conducted over email – unending thanks to Lex for taking the time to answer all of these questions. First off, thanks for the interview. 2023 was a typically productive year for you – with so material and activity, I was curious how much of your songs come from improvisation vs…
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Disintegration
“There are but four ways to die a sardonic spirit might have said to meThere is dying that occurs relatively suddenlyThere is dying that occurs relatively graduallyThere is dying that occurs relatively painlesslyThere is the death that is full of painThus by various means they are combinedThe sudden and the gradualThe painless and the painfulTo…
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Deathdrive And Ravedeath
A decade removed from the peak-dominance that Club music – here used as a loose term for the club-centric and club-focused merger of EDM and Pop sensibilities with the aesthetic and spirit of 2000s R&B – held on the charts, and popular music has largely replaced the earnest, if thick, grinning death head of rave…
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The Ideal State Of Ambience: Sachiko M, Sine Waves and How To Inhabit Them
Entrenched somewhere between a pair of sine wave tones, Sachiko M achieves the ideal state of ambience In this article I will attempt to define, however loosely, the purpose and goal of musical ambience, how it relates to the aforementioned ideal state of ambience – specifically how it relates to Sachiko M and the release…