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“She wasn’t solid”: In conversation with Lucrecia Dalt

September 16, 2020

“All that is solid melts into air”. So said Marshall Barman in 1982 to describe the mercurial experience of modernity. He was inspired by Marx’s nightmarish “melting vision” of a free market, fuelled by the fra...

Howie Lee talks through his favourite traditional Chinese music

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September 11, 2020

Howie Lee crafts a distinctive alloy of club hybridism and traditional Asian instrumentation on his Maloca Records debut. Like the imagined soundtrack to Gu-Long’s Seven Weapons anthology, 7 Weapon Series re-co...

Fortnightly Freebies #111

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September 8, 2020

Post-trance pointillism, jazz-tinged breaks, a new beat reconstruction and plenty more... PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - B8. PROBLEM + EDITS 'Problems', the B8 cut from Saint Abdullah's recent Psychic Liberation ...

Fortnightly Freebies #110

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August 18, 2020

Ominous electronics, R&B-sampling donk, a Patrick Cowley edit and plenty more... Omradn - LEDESQZ PRGDESSENFKTAJDTIOCN The German experimentalists at Schnell Records serve up a free download of ominous po...

Generation PSY X: Buttechno talks art, environment and a “new psychic entity”

Oliver Walkden

August 17, 2020

A fragile chalk figure with a curiously atom-shaped head holds a sword aloft; a floating arrow creeps behind him, pointing to the crown of his skull. Is this a self-portrait of Pavel Milyakov, AKA Buttechno, in...

Fortnightly Freebies #109

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August 6, 2020

Korg Mono/Poly jams, Italo edits, immersive ambient and plenty more... bodyzone - deprogramming v02 A second volume of Korg Mono/Poly jams sees Bézier's bodyzone project pay tribute to a gay bathhouse in Detr...

Dig Deeper: 6 more releases donating proceeds for Bandcamp Day

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August 4, 2020

Bandcamp have announced their 'Bandcamp Friday' series will continue until the end of the year. Initially conceived to help combat the loss of touring income for artists, it has since paved the way for compilat...

Tête-à-Tête: Nick Klein & Wilted Woman

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July 24, 2020

They say that friendships forged in fire are forever, but what about friendships forged in noise? Sharing a mutual interest in difficult music and live performance, Primitive Languages/Psychic Liberation co-fou...

Fortnightly Freebies #108

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July 23, 2020

Legowelt alchemy, balmy ambience, a Ginuwine edit and plenty more... Krikor - Saddles Edit Parisian veteran Krikor strips Ginuwine's 'Pony' back with an edit sitting somewhere between trap and a steppers' rhy...

ascendant vierge pick 10 tracks you could die to on Fhloston Paradise

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July 21, 2020

Ever wondered what that operatic diva in The Fifth Element might have performed if chaos hadn't ensued on Fhloston Paradise? Well, even if you hadn't, Gallic 'hard-pop' duo ascendant vierge certainly have. Insp...