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Sónar Lisboa 2025: A Pocket-Sized Paradise (with a side of Heineken)

Sónar Lisboa 2025 arrived with the quiet confidence of a festival that's finally found its footing—no longer the awkward younger sibling to Barcelona, but a sophisticated event perfectly at home in the Portuguese capital.

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Review: Pop-Kultur 2019 Situated on top of a hill, comprised of leafy streets and old brick-buildings is the district of Prenzlauerberg. During the Soviet era the district was filled to the brim with elements of a diverse counterculture: bohemians, artists and LGBTQ communities. Now, it is a marker of Berlin’s warp-speed gentrification post the fall of the Berlin […]

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Review: Radioactive Man & Ara-U – Plastic Attack (Asking For Trouble) Keith Tenniswood is a legendary figure in the UK. Since sinking his teeth into electro and hip hop as a curious teenager, the producer better known as Radioactive Man has established himself as one of the most respected and consistent electro artists on the planet. Gaining recognition as one half of the Two Lone Swordsmen […]

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Review: Love International 2019 As we descended on Tisno for the fourth year of Love International, we thought ahead about what the week had in store for us. A whole seven days of programming presented tons of opportunities to get stuck in, from soaking up the sun by The Beach Stage to all nighters at Barbarellas and ambient sunrise […]

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Review: Monticule 2019 Overlooking a patchwork quilt of luscious green pastures stitched together by trickling rivers, the Domaine de Gayfié stands proudly, basking in the radiant Summer sun. Waking up to the sound of birds trilling and clucking cockerels, underneath the shade-bearing canopies of evergreen trees, you can’t help but feel surrounded by an earthly charm unique from […]

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Review: Bacon Grease – Bacon Grease Finally. This was my initial thought after finding out that Orlando resident, Bacon Grease, was releasing her official debut album. Of course this isn’t the first album Bacon Grease has released, far from it. Since 2014 she has released at least eight albums and twice as many EPs and singles, but her self-titled cassette on […]

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Review: Gottwood 2019 Not many boutique festivals in the UK have gained the reputation that Gottwood has. Taking place on the Northern tip of Wales nestled between rolling hills and the Irish sea, the small close-knit festival have built an intimate family feel since their first edition back in 2009. It might be quite a pilgrimage to reach […]

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Review: Slugabed – Any Attempt To Control The Environment Or The Self By Means That Are Either Untested Or Untestable, Such As Charms Or Spells Pinch me. Has it been a decade since Slugabed started releasing music? At the time these releases were a breath of fresh air from safe productions adding an element of fun and pomp to his productions. His debut album, 2012’s ‘Time Team’, was gorgeous yet understated. The 2017 follow up ‘Inherit the Earth’ showed a […]

Interviews

Seeing in Technicolor: Janine Rainforth Interviewed

The lead singer of MXMJoY talks about the inspirations behind her new solo album Soul Retrieval.

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Sónar Lisboa 2025: A Pocket-Sized Paradise (with a side of Heineken) Sónar Lisboa 2025 arrived with the quiet confidence of a festival that's finally found its footing—no longer the awkward younger sibling to Barcelona, but a sophisticated event perfectly at home in the Portuguese capital.

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The Art Of Accidental Gigs It starts with a seed. Or, in this case, rather it started with a C-C-Bbbb (this will make sense shortly).

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Sacred Injections: a playlist by Baldruin German experimentalist Baldruin assembles a wondrous annotated playlist of sacred music

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Review: AIAIAI TMA-2 Wireless+ AIAIAI are cutting cables with their latest set of wireless headphones.

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Ghosts in the machine: Orbury Common launch new album Sylvan Chute at Crofter’s Rights Orbury Common are supported by Tom Connolly and Buffee in a glitchy lineup of folk and electronic.

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Burning Bright: an MTV requiem playlist by April Clocks Italian ambient maestro April Clocks compiles an eloquent requiem to his youth, ft. NIN, Depeche Mode & more

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Review: Fever Ray – Live @ Vega, Copenhagen Spotlighting the must see London exhibition.

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Vanishing releases new album Shelter of the Opaque State-of-the-nation spoken word, industrial electronics, free jazz & string-led minimalism from the Manchester experimentalist

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Review: Erratic Batting in Bristol The “mini-fest” description rang true as Erratic Battling celebrated 7 years in Bristol.

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Haunting and haunted: Quade launch new album Nacre at The Island A reflection on an evening in Bristol as Quade are joined by O.G. Jigg and Foot Foot.

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C2C Festival 2023: Upping the Tempo Turin takes the spotlight over a weekend in November as the festival rolls into town for an extravagant edition.

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Track By Track: Various Artists – Disruptive Frequencies An in-depth guide to an essential compilation aiming to redress racial bias by championing Black & South Asian avant-garde electronic music

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Track By Track: Various Artists – Utopia or Oblivion Phenomenal sound art, ambient, drone & electronics inspired by the futurist R. Buckminster Fuller

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Sleaford Mods ‘UK GRIM’ album review: a satirical speculation on the UK Grace Morton speaks to the Nottingham duo about their 13th album, so-called "British Identity" and political divisiveness...

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A weekend of music, architecture, food, ice baths and discourse | Wonderfruit 2022 review. A weekend of music, architecture, food, ice baths and discourse. Wonderfruit 2022 review.

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Review: Positive Education 2022 The curious and bold festival in Saint-Étienne that's putting France's underground electronic music scene firmly on the map.

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We Out Here festival 2022: a celebration of diversity and community The 25th August saw thousands flock to Abbots Ripton for We Out Here festival’s eagerly-awaited third edition.

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Watching Trees Festival review: Optimo and The Ransom Note bring the funk to the forest R$N and Glasgow's Optimo DJ collective united in the Forest of Dean last weekend and had a little party. Here’s how it went down (Spoiler: everyone smashed it).

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Review: A Balearic Beat Hotel 2021 We squeezed the last drops out of summer at this intimate Ibizan escape...

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Review: by:Larm 2019 Making their way down snowy roads, some falling, some sliding for the fun of it, by:Larm-goers treated the moments between gigs as an invitation to become children again. When we weren't in the throes of music, we were constantly surrounded by laughter and excited chatter; a surefire sign of a good festival. Norway’s capital, Oslo, […]

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Review: LCY – LCY In recent years, a new generation of female artists have been gleefully dismantling the gender-based barriers of a traditionally male-dominated electronic music scene. Efforts by a cohort of immensely talented producers and DJs have proven crucial in providing a much needed update to the perception that bass music is a boys-only club. One such DJ […]

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Review: Kahn and Neek – (Having A Sick Time) In The Mansions Of Bliss It’s been an eventful few decades on the post-UK Garage frontier. From the initial rise of grime and dubstep, with seminal British releases garnering both critical and commercial appeal to being cast into the shadows by the likes of its distant American cousins, brostep and trap. All the while, lovers of more nuanced halftime percussion […]

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Review: Further Perspectives and Distortion Post-punk is a tradition of a dead generation, weighing like a nightmare upon the brains of the living. It has been for the last twenty years, at the very least. We have been living in a post-punk revival since 1999, perhaps earlier: both independent guitar music and underground club culture are marked indelibly by the […]