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Tariq Goddard returns to the scene of a teenage crime four decades on and recognises that "terrible music can transcend our understanding just as surely as great music can" If everything is forgotten in the end, then most things are forgotten well before whatever cut off point we decide to assess the past from. Part of the charm if not a small sliver of the purpose of these anniversary pieces is…
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Thibault Ehrengardt takes us through the records that were part of the turbulent politics of 70s Jamaica Junior Byles, from the cover of Beat Down Babylon In 1971, almost ten years after the independence of Jamaica, a charismatic socialist leader ran for the elections at the head of the People’s National Party (PNP). His name was Michael Manley, but…
Three explorers from the Czech-Slovak experimental music scene burrow deep into the woodland in search of some heady drones and – just maybe – a new experience of time itself Šimanský Vaľko Podracký pick up where Spacemen 3 left off. The Czech-Slovak trio of experimental musicians apparently share Pete Kember and Jason Pierce’s guiding principle of “taking drugs to make music to take drugs to”.…
Missing Cities Without Rivers Tom Lyngcoln and Jensen Tjhung’s new quartet comes off like the lounge act in purgatory, says Bernie Brooks Cities Without Rivers by MISSING "What if nothin’ changes?" Quiet and calm, then fractured, almost stuttered. Until again, less calm, with some force behind it, bordering on agitated: "What if nothing changes?" Then the squealing scramble of fucked tape. In…
It's the third song to be unveiled from forthcoming album Radical Frame Actress has released a new track, titled 'Withending'. It arrives as the third preview to forthcoming album Radical Frame, which the UK artist announced last month with the release of the song 'Overchord'. Before that, he shared the CASISDEAD-featuring lead cut 'Live By You'. 'Withending', which you can listen to below, is a…
12 Conversations was originally recorded by the two artists in late 2022 Noton is set to release a posthumous album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, made in collaboration with Alva Noto. The 12-track 12 Conversations was originally recorded by the two artists in November and December 2022 around the same time that Sakamoto made his final solo album, 12 – he passed away in March 2023. The release of the new LP…
The new record is preceded by lead cut 'Tally Ho, Hark Away!' Shovel Dance Collective have signed to Glitterbeat's tak:til sub-label for the release of their third album, Everything In Readiness. The follow-up to 2024's The Shovel Dance takes in 11 tracks and builds on the sound of their previous output, further exploring productions processes surrounding field recordings and tape manipulation. In…
The new event, scheduled for next month, is affiliated with Nyege Nyege Festival Kampire Brussels festival MIRROR WORLD has shared the first wave of names playing its inaugural edition next month. The new two-day festival is a sister event to Uganda's Nyege Nyege Festival, and will welcome a number of figures connected to the Nyege Nyege Tapes label as a result. Among them are Kampire, DJ…
Synthetic Water Music features tracks by Pauline Anna Strom, Visible Cloaks, perila and more Slovakian label mappa has released a 51-track compilation of ambient music themed around water, titled Synthetic Water Music. Available now digitally, with a cassette release set to follow on 10 September, it follows on from the imprint's 2023 compilation Synthetic Bird Music as the label marks its 10th…
Ahead of the world's first 'Adam Curtis Party Conference' in Bournemouth, David Moats offers us 10 entry points into the filmography of a documentarian like no other In Umberto Eco’s satirical novel Foucault’s Pendulum, an editor of occult books decides to construct a new conspiracy theory called ‘THE PLAN’ by entering known statements about Freemasons, The Knights Templar and satanic cults (along…
