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Long Live the New Slop: An Interview with Zaron Mizmeras
James Harrington and David Moats submit to complete dissolution of context while speaking to the Sheffield-based transhumanist artist, digital rubble sifter and brain-frying YouTube manipulator After the music winds down at Oxfordshire’s Supernormal Festival, people normally congregate around the campfire, swig mystery booze, dip into the magic sack and cack
The Strange World Of… King Tubby
David Katz navigates ten entry points into the back catalogue of the King Tubby, the enigmatic Jamaican audio engineer who devised the dub art form Fifty years after the release of magnum opus King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, the work of King Tubby still beguiles and inspires. Operating out of a converted bedroom in Waterhouse, western Kingston, Tubby was a
The Price of Integrity: 30 Years of the Stakes is High by De La Soul
The whimsy had fallen away leaving De La Soul in a position to voice a an alarming diagnosis: hip hop faced a double-threat from sectarianism and corporate influx, says Jacob Manieson The architecture of 90s hip hop was notoriously sectarian. Amongst and between enclaves like the Bay Area and Brooklyn, enormous personalities like Biggie and Tupac proved that
Waves Eaten by Flames: Endless Summer by Fennesz at 25
A quarter of a century on Jon Buckland considers the complex emotional affects triggered by Christian Fennesz' third album, Endless Summer. Contains discussion of suicide Endless Summer by Fennesz In 2001 Christian Fennesz released his third full-length record Endless Summer which followed the disrupted drone and noise aesthetics of debut Hotel Paral.lel and
Independence Day: How Ramones Changed the World
Fifty years ago this weekend, Ramones played their first two UK shows, catalysing the British punk scene. Simon Price talks to people who were there, and argues that anyone who dismissed them as cartoon cretins missed the point Ramones live at the Roundhouse by Gus Stewart / Redferns / Getty There comes a moment in every Dolly Parton concert, as cherished as