Tag: Music
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24 Records For 2024
Fatboi Sharif / Duncecap – Psychedelics Wrote The Bible Duncecap produces a hip-hop sound-collage that fades into news broadcasts, the sounds of channel surfing, synth stabs evoking sirens, all united under Sharif’s thick delivery, making the distinctions between the samples, beats, intros and outros blur into one another. It’s so fucking simple but the piano…
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An Interview With David Firth
David Firth, animation and musical mind behind Locust Toybox, Salad Fingers, Cream, Stegosaurus Trap and more was kind enough to chat with me about his music, techniques and current inspirations. Pleased To Be Eaten immediately sounds much more informed by IDM and atmospheric, instrumental Hip Hop than the ambient soundscapes of When We Implode and…
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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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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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45 Albums Of Note 2023
Angel Bat Dawid – Requiem For Jazz As explosive a live recording as you’re ever likely to hear – an album that’s both a eulogy to jazz’s past and a promise to its future. Incorporating elements of the ecstatic alongside the broad lineage of spiritual jazz, Requiem For Jazz elucidates an unbroken chain in black…
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