Nabihah Iqbal: ‘What’s the point being me if I’m going to keep quiet?’

The lawyer turned outspoken creator of multifaceted guitar-based pop is a trailblazer for Asian women in rock. Just don’t make assumptions about her music based on ethnicity, she says

“Growing up,” says Nabihah Iqbal, “my parents always made a big effort to make sure we did a lot of extracurricular activities and creative stuff – but I don’t think they actually envisaged any of us would then pursue that as a career.”

Shaking yourself free of Asian stereotypes is a burden that most second-generation immigrants have had to deal with. Indeed, for British Pakistani musician Iqbal, perhaps the only one that rings true is having parents who worry about their children getting what she laughingly describes as a “proper job”.

Related: Nabihah Iqbal: Weighing of the Heart review – a thoughtful, immersive debut

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Czarface & MF Doom: Czarface Meets Metal Face review – action-filled hip-hop supersquad

(Get on Down)

The undergroup hip-hop group Czarface – made up of Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, MC Esoteric and producer 7L – get more super still, with the addition of metal-masked rapper MF Doom. This Avengers-style squad, already nerdily fixated on comic books and prone to supervillainous pronouncements regarding their prowess – be it lyrical, sexual or pharmaceutical – are given very free rein, and there are some ponderous skits for guys to giggle at alone with their vinyl figurines.

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Contemporary album of the month – Laurence Pike: Distant Early Warning review

This Australian drummer’s solo debut introduces pleasing layers and textures to a minimalist palette

Laurence Pike is an Australian drummer who has appeared in a variety of settings over the past 20 years – making ambient jazz with Triosk; working with his brother Richard in the jerky math rock outfit Pivot; duetting with the one-time ECM pianist Mike Nock; and exploring tantric music with electronic artist Luke Abbott and Portico Quartet saxophonist Jack Wyllie in Szun Waves.

His debut solo album, however, sounds very little like any of those lineups. It’s basically minimalism – drones, pulses, hypnotic arpeggios that alter very gradually – but with drums rumbling over the top. Drum kits are rarely invited into the pristine world of minimalism, a world of clean spaces and right angles. The only percussion you’re likely to hear in the music of, say, Steve Reich or Philip Glass will be the minty-fresh plonk of a vibraphone or marimba. Throughout Distant Early Warning, however, Pike’s drums grind, flutter and growl, adding several pleasing layers of scuffed texture to the smooth surfaces.

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Mark Guiliana on the album that sounds like innocence – The Start podcast

The drummer and composer talks about Locked in a Basement, the album he recorded with his band Heernt, before facing the pressures of adulthood

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In 2006, a young American drummer was making waves on the jazz circuit, touring with some of the genre’s greatest musicians. At home, he was playing music influenced by the rock records of the 90s and – alongside his friends – was working on an album in his parents’ basement.

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'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album

In the 1980s, the sci-fi author teamed up with musician Todd Barton, inventing new instruments and a language to create Music and Poetry of the Kesh. Is the album any good?

The late Ursula K Le Guin wrote many well-loved novels, but few people know that the legendary science fiction and fantasy author once made an album. The strange and enchanting record Music and Poetry of the Kesh – which Le Guin created with the electronic musician and composer Todd Barton to accompany her 1985 book Always Coming Home – has been reissued, following Le Guin’s death in January.

Related: Don't know where to start? The essential novels of Ursula K Le Guin

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by Geeta Dayal via Electronic music | The Guardian

Dom Servini – Netil Radio Show #3

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Hannibal – Mother’s Land

Butti 49 – Spiritual Rotations

The Diabolical Liberties – Bigger Than You

Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra – Oni Zaraz Przyjda Tu

Muhavishla Ravi Hatchud & the Indo Jazz Following – Bombay Palace Part 1 (Outnational Sounds)

Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids – An Angel Fell

Chip Wickham – Barrio 71

Blvck Spvde – Dance Foe Me

Bishop Nehru – Potassium

Loving Awareness – No Other High

Isaac Hayes – I Want To Make Love To You So Bad (FX out)

Joaquin Joe Clausell – Pagliaci (Edit)

Bosq – Com Forc-a

Sapphire – If You Want (Kon Edit)

Kira Neris – The Mission

Flamingosis – Gucci Gang

Michael White – Commin’ From

Stimulator Jones – Give My All

Yazmin Lacey – 90 Degrees

Kevin Moore – Speak Your Mind

Leon Bridges – Bad Bad News

Greymatter – Move Slow

Danvers – Aye Ata

Crackazat – Holding You Close (Wajeed Remix)

Waajeed – Mother

Nubya Garcia – Source (Maxwell Owin Remix)

Steve Parks – Still Thinking of You

Honeyfeet – Hunt & Gather

Tadayo Hayashi – My Favourite Things

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Diplo: 'Being a white American, you have zero cultural capital'

The US DJ-turned-pop star is dogged by cries of cultural appropriation, but whether on his own or with Major Lazer, he’s on a permanent global quest to start trends – ‘or mess them up’

In the midst of 3,000-year-old ruins just outside Islamabad, I am playing tourist with American producer-turned-pop star Diplo. He is here for less than 24 hours and is keen to explore the ancient city of Taxila – what’s left of it – clambering over a Buddhist stupa in a Burberry trenchcoat and traditional kurta tunic. Armed guards stalk the long grass around us, while Diplo spots some puppies, who look suspiciously like they have been planted there for our visit. “We’ve found the ancient animals!” he deadpans, as he poses for a photo for his Snapchat or maybe a forthcoming calendar. “This is one of my top five international moments.”

It’s Diplo’s second time in Pakistan, and later today he will be throwing his next “block party” in the capital, where 4,000 twentysomethings will turn out for a set from his DJ crew Major Lazer, alongside local artists such as SNKM. The first event he did, in 2016, “might have been the only DJ show that ever happened here,” he says. This year, he has flown in to throw another one, before zipping back to the US to soundtrack a Super Bowl after party and perform the dance routine from his latest video on The Tonight Show. Diplo, AKA 39-year-old Wesley Pentz, can’t seem to locate his off switch. “Honestly, I’m waiting to be irrelevant,” he drawls, drolly.

Related: What Would Diplo Do? A mockumentary for the EDM generation

Related: Major Lazer review – a juddering, festival-ready EDM megamix

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Fever Ray review – cartoonish camp and eco-rave vibes

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Swedish art rocker Karin Dreijer is best when she translates experimental music to the stage with a bang

As six cartoonishly styled women stride on stage, each taking a moment to flex in the neon strobing like a pro-wrestling heel, it’s hard to square the camp spectacle with Fever Ray’s last appearance in the UK. In 2010, the woman then known as Karin Dreijer Anderssonperformed her self-titled debut in darkness, engulfed by dry ice and wearing heavy robes that obscured her face. It made a feverish album about the claustrophobic loneliness of motherhood even more harrowing. In the intervening years, much has changed for Stockholm’s Dreijer – divorcing and reclaiming her name, and embarking on a Tinder-abetted quest into her queerness as documented on a second Fever Ray album.

Never mind nuclear family; last year’s Plunge is about chosen family uniting to celebrate freedom and pleasure: “Still, we’re pushing what’s possible / A queer healing / Mom just tired of feeling,” as Dreijer sings on Falling. Hence the homemade costumes – bug-eyed anarchist scientists, cat burglar, dumpster diver, fashion victim, preening bodybuilder with bulbous foam pecs – which together resemble a shambolic Avengers primed to topple the patriarchy. The Hulk and a blue-haired succubus flank Dreijer, shaven-headed and with zombie-pink eyes, who often cedes the floor and microphone to them in a characteristic refusal of ego that also distinguished her performances with duo the Knife (and almost started riots on their aggressively loose Shaking the Habitual tour). The trio play jester and corrupter, mugging gleefully and grinding in slow-motion against each other as if enacting a set piece from an aerobics-themed porno.

Related: Fever Ray: on pleasure, patriarchy and political revolution

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Wah Wah Radio – March 2018

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Vels Trio – The Wad

Wu-Lu – Sailor feat. Binisa Bonner

The Motion Orchestra – All One

Emanative – Lions of Judah (live at Cafe Otto)

Nubya Garcia – Source (Maxwell Owin Remix)

Aeshim – No Flowers

Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)

Kaye – Opportunity (Edit)

Joe Armon-Jones – Starting Today feat. Asheber

D. Lynnwood – Gospel Discoteque

Run Logan Run – Death is Elsewhere

Honeyfeet – Colonel Hathi’s Trunk Juice

ADaD and Tensei – Danger Us feat. Yaw

Gee-O – Levels

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Creep Show: Mr Dynamite review – ominous, inventive and funny

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Electronica has played an increasingly prominent role in John Grant’s ever-evolving solo career, the Midlake-assisted balladry of 2010’s Queen of Denmark largely being usurped by synths by the time of 2015’s absorbing Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. His 2016 performance with British analogue electro trio Wrangler (comprising Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, Tunng’s Phil Winter and sometime John Foxx foil Benge) at the Barbican, London, felt like a natural next step. Two years on, that project has a name, and a debut album that is by turns ominous-sounding, inventive and, on K Mart Johnny – a Blue Jam-like evocation of plastic-dinosaur-based children revenge – surprisingly funny. For the most part, the voices of Grant and Mallinder have been heavily treated, pitched up or down, rendering their contributions largely indistinguishable, as on the rudimentary electro of Tokyo Metro and the vocoder-assisted Pink Squirrel. It’s telling therefore that the closing Safe and Sound, on which Grant’s affecting baritone is unadorned by studio trickery, stands head and shoulders above the rest. Other highlights include the lurching funk of Modern Parenting and the icy Kraftwerkisms of Fall.

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Essaie Pas: New Path review – techno dystopias with witty flashes of funk

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From Run the Jewels to Gary Numan, musicians technophobically fretting over the future of humanity have long used Philip K Dick as a touchstone – and that’s not counting the endless riffs on Vangelis’s synthscapes from the Dick-derived Blade Runner. Essaie Pas, married producers Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, have used Dick’s druggily dsytopian novel A Scanner Darkly as inspiration for their fifth album, and tap into his dread much better than most. Their aesthetic is mostly cyberpunk coldwave, with techno kick drums pounding uncaringly in 4/4 motion; on Futur Parlé, they are cut through by neon scythes of metallic sound, before being joined by a three-note Chicago house bassline and Davidson’s signature monotone vocals (also brilliant on solo releases and her collaborations with Not Waving and Solitary Dancer). Les Agents des Stups switches up to relentless electro, before Substance M dives back to deep, stern techno. These expansive dancefloor moments are strong, but you long for a couple more of their left turns. Complet Brouillé is apparently inspired by dissociative drug experiences, though this particular K -hole is brightly decorated: another addictive Chicago bassline is placed against a stuttering beat to create infectious, witty funk. The chilling title track meanwhile features a robotic voice spewing shards of A Scanner Darkly dialogue into a void of sustained synth chords, a little like the dying protagonist Hal 9000 in another sci-fi classic, 2001A Space Odyssey. Essaie Pas have gone beyond cliche and fandom to make something that truly speaks to the dynamic thought and droll humour at the heart of Dick’s writing.

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Readers recommend playlist: songs with sudden changes

Artists such as Lorde, Sparks, the Moody Blues and Metallica bring changes of pace to a prog-heavy playlist with twists and turns

Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of stories and suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.

Related: Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock

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Sophie review – hideous and heart-rending BDSM-friendly pop

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The once-shy producer has now, after a gender transition, arrived front and centre to deliver nightmarish, bracingly contemporary electro

As reinventions go, you’d be hard-pressed to find one as dramatic as Sophie’s. While shaking up electronic music in the early 2010s with her arrestingly saccharine sound, the LA-based producer remained carefully concealed from view: publicity pictures were nonexistent, while YouTube videos consisted solely of cutesy CGI objects and live shows in which she was silently sequestered behind the decks. This evening, however, she is pretending to wrestle a giant white inflatable, clad head to toe in skin-tight PVC. Later, she will ride sidesaddle on one of her dancers before performing her own stilted routine. Camp doesn’t begin to cover it.

Sophie’s new hyper-flamboyant stage presence is more than a pose. Having spent the last few years in the studio with artists including Madonna and Charli XCX, in October she stepped out of the shadows with material that seemed more personal than her previous work. First came It’s Okay to Cry, a misty-eyed power ballad about an identity-based struggle for which she performed her own vocals for the first time. Then Faceshopping, whose lyrics read: “Artificial bloom / hydroponic skin / chemical release / synthesise the real.” Until recently, Sophie’s collaborators have referred to her as male – now, the PR literature uses “she”. Although the producer has declined to explain her gender identity in interviews, this new phase feels connected to some kind of transformation.

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Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #13 on Soho Radio

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Joe Armon-Jones – London’s Face feat. Oscar Jerome

Toshio Matsuura Group – Change

Hector Plimmer – Eastern System (Hello Skinny Remix)

Paul White – Spare Gold

Garden City Movement – Before I Fall

Lay-Far – Never Good Enough For You feat. Stee Downes

Entek – Robbery

Nkotti Francois & The Black Styl – Nja Ka

Mankoora – Sonor Tropical

Shadow – Let’s Get Together

Sly 5th Ave – Let Me Ride feat. Jimetta Rose (Stro Elliot Remix)

Native Dancer – Big Blue (Eric Lau Remix)

Raiko – Float

Loftsoul x Miruga – See Line Woman feat. Fae Simon

Jorge Dalto – I’ve Got You On My Mind

Samir & Abboud – Games

Onedo – Mauolye

D. Lynnwood – Gospel Discotheque

Peggy Gou – Han Jan

Mr. Bird – Carnival Beat

Son Palenque – La Negra (Bosq Remix)

Far Out Disco Orchestra – Black Sun

K15 – Sunbeams

Don Cherry – I Walk

Tsvia Abarbanel – Yahlel Hawa

Nubya Garcia – When We Are

Collocutor – Black Satin

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One to watch: George FitzGerald

Fatherhood has brought a more mature edge to the electronic maestro’s signature sound

A gradual progression from night to day, from the dancefloor to the domestic, is one way of looking at George FitzGerald’s musical trajectory to date. His forthcoming second album All That Must Be, which comes loaded with crossover potential, is informed by the 33-year-old moving back home to London and embracing fatherhood after years of service at the more thoughtful end of the international club scene.

Raised in north-west London on a diet of garage and dubstep, FitzGerald cut his teeth as a DJ before moving to Berlin in 2010 and becoming a producer. Berlin nurtured a growing interest in techno, and FitzGerald’s early releases on Hotflush were fit-for-purpose club tracks, though euphoric moments were counterbalanced by a healthy dose of melancholia.

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The Milk at The Plug on 08/06

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• Artist:
  The Milk
• Date:
  08/06/18
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  The Plug
• City:
  Sheffield
• Address:
  14 – 16 Matilda Street
• Venue phone:
  0114 276 2676
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £16.50
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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The Milk at Mama Roux’s on 07/06

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• Artist:
  The Milk
• Date:
  07/06/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  Mama Roux’s
• City:
  Birmingham
• Address:
  Unit 3, Lower Trinity Street
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £16.50
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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The Milk at Islington Assembly Hall on 02/06

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  The Milk
• Date:
  02/06/18
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  Islington Assembly Hall
• City:
  London
• Address:
  Upper St
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £19.80
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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The Milk at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar on 01/06

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• Artist:
  The Milk
• Date:
  01/06/18
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  Stick Mike’s Frog Bar
• City:
  Brighton
• Address:
  9-12 Middle Street
• Venue phone:
  01273 749465
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £16.50
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Peaches on the song that defined her new sound – The Start podcast

The electronic musician relates how a breakup, a new keyboard and a hunger for feminist rock’n’roll led to her signature track Lovertits and album The Teaches of Peaches

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In 1997, shortly after recovering from thyroid cancer, 33-year-old musician Merrill Nisker bought a keyboard and began jamming in her small studio in Toronto, Canada. Informed by her previous punk and rock projects, inspired by the flexibility of writing music electronically, she reinvented herself as Peaches and set about writing her boundary-blurring feminist statement of an album, The Teaches of Peaches.

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Peaches: 'We smoked a joint, started screaming and suddenly had some songs'

In 2000, recovering from cancer and heartbreak, Merrill Nisker bought a synth, renamed herself Peaches and made a scorching album that became a feminist classic. In this extract from our Start podcast, she relives the sex, pain and pillow talk that fuelled The Teaches of Peaches

I had no idea I would become a musician; I fell into it. First, I had a band called Fancypants Hoodlum. It was quite expressive in terms of how I performed. I had good musicians with me and was learning to play electric guitar – to nobody other than myself.

I didn’t feel there was a community of people that I related to musically. I felt a kinship with a band called Spin the Susan. They reminded me of the band in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. They had two female singers and I wanted to start a band with one of the girls. She had a next-door neighbour with a basement jam room. There was another guy she had a crush on, who was in a band, so she suggested the four of us work together. Immediately I was like: “I want an all-girl band, this is not what I’m looking for.” But I went anyway.

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The Milk at The Fleece on 31/05

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  The Milk
• Date:
  31/05/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  The Fleece
• City:
  Bristol
• Address:
  12 St Thomas Street
• Venue phone:
  0117 945 0996
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £16.50
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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The Milk at Night People on 19/05

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  The Milk
• Date:
  19/05/18
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  Night People
• City:
  Manchester
• Address:
  105 – 107 Princess Street
• Venue phone:
  0161 236 9266
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £16.50
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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The Milk at The Garage on 18/05

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• Artist:
  The Milk
• Date:
  18/05/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  The Garage
• City:
  Glasgow
• Address:
  490 Sauchiehall Street
• Venue phone:
  0141 332 1120
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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Dele Sosimi at The Jazz Cafe on 25/05

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  The Milk
• Date:
  18/05/18
• Time:
  7:30pm
• Venue:
  The Garage
• City:
  Glasgow
• Address:
  490 Sauchiehall Street
• Venue phone:
  0141 332 1120
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
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DOM SERVINI’S ALLO LOVE TEN :: MARCH 2018

1. Honeyfeet – Orange Whip (Wah Wah 45s LP)
2. Crackazat – Holding You Close (Wajeed Remix) (Local Talk Test 12)
3. Vels Trio – The Wad (Total Refreshment Records Promo DL)
4. Cherrystones – Simba Dub (Bahnsteig 12)
5. Darryl Douglas Inc – Holding On (Kalita 12)
6. The Mighty Zaf & Phil Asher – 80s (ES 12)
7. Al Kent – Vince Edit (G.A.M.M.)
8. Shadow – Let’s Get it Together (Black Pearl 7)
9. Jamie 3:26 – When You Ready For That (Shake Tapes 12)
10. Chicago Damn – Intimate Friends EP (Mate 12)

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DOM SERVINI’S TEN FOR SIMON :: FEBRUARY 2018

1. Minnie Ripperton – Simple Things (Epic 7)
2. Sequence – Simon Says (Sugar Hill 12)
3. Javi Frias – Loving You (Neon Finger 7)
4. Lorez Alexandria – I’m Wishin’ (Pzazz 7)
5. Gloria Lynne – Speaking of Happiness (Fontana 7)
6. Rodena Preston & Voices of Deliverance – Be a Friend (Beegee Records Inc 7)
7. Stance Brothers – Prayer (Spasibo 7)
8. Trevor Dandy – Is There Any Love (Numero 7)
9. The Flying Stars of Brooklyn, NY – My God Has a Telephone (Colmine 7)
10. Diana Ross – Remember Me (Motown 7)

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DOM SERVINI’S ALLO LOVE CHART :: JANUARY 2018

1. Moton – Jaque’s Theme (Moton 12)
2. Soothsayers – Dis & Dat (Mixes) (Wah Wah 45s Ltd 12)
3. Penya – Super Liminal (On The Corner LP)
4. K15 – Sunbeams (Eglo Promo DL)
5. Jon Dixon – Fly Free EP (4EVRFWD 12)
6. V/A – Puzzles Vol. 3 (Raw Tapes Promo DL)
7. Will LV – Sum New (Bandcamp DL)
8. Ossie / Greymatter – Video Freaks EP (Unique Uncut 12)
9. Decent International – Leaving You (Decent International 12)
10. Guy One – Everything You Do, You Do for Yourself (Philiphon 7)

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50 great tracks for March from Chvrches, Riko Dan, Machine Head and more

Check out Angolan kuduro, fluffy disco-funk and whimsical fingerpicking in this month’s roundup of the best new music. Subscribe to the playlist of all 50 tracks and read about our 10 favourites

Related: The month's best music: Jonghyun, Marmozets, Peggy Gou and more

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Dom Servini – Netil Radio Show #2

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Verses – Cherokee (Tramp)

Tropea – Can’t Hide Love (Marlin)

Gensu Dean & Denmark Vessey – Saturday (Mellow Music Group)

Prophets of Peace – Get it on (Athens of the North)

Arthur’s Landing – Love Dancing (You Got Me) (Strut)

The Expansions – Ivory Mountain (Scrimshire Edit) (Albert’s Favourites)

Debra Laws – On My Own (Elektra)

Aurra – When I Come Home (Dream)

Gibson Brothers – Ooh What a Life! (Gerd Janson & Shan Edit) (Running Back)

Peter Croce – Just Like Heaven (Kampana Classics)

LB aka LABAT – Otari (Wolf)

Nitai Hershkovits – Flyin’ Bamboo feat. MNDSGN (Raw Tapes)

Mildlife – The Magnificent Moon (Research Records)

Morrison Kincannon – As the River Flows on (Spacetalk)

Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin – Idiom feat. Oscar Jerome (YAM)

The Herbaliser – Over & Over feat. Stac (BBE)

Space Ghost – Color Waves (Tartelet)

Neue Grafik – Dance to Yemanja (Rhythm Section)

Skinny Pelembe – Spit / Swallow (Brownswood)

Honeyfeet – Woe (Wah Wah 45s)

The Moir Sisters – Stop the Music (EMI Australia)

Norman Feels – Mr Wanna Be (Just Sunshine)

Skip Jackson – Microwave Boogie (Catamount)

Idjut Boys & LAJ – Return of the Z Man (U-Star)

Darryl Douglas Inc – Holdin’ On (Kalita)

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Elvis Presley's power, Tina Turner's legs: musicians pick their biggest influences

Sade taught Jessie Ware quiet confidence, while Sly Stone helped Baxter Dury ‘make the unlikely into something rational’: some of our contemporary favourites salute the stars who had the most impact on them

● Guardian writers on the most influential artists in music today

My greatest influence probably isn’t very evident in my music. Sly and the Family Stone, or more Sly, captured my imagination from the moment it was forced out of a giant pair of Tannoy speakers placed in our front living room. He was a handsome opportunist hippy who manipulated the times, but definitely changed the course of them. The music is soulful, subversive and sleazy, but beautifully arranged and played. It’s a theme park of unrelated ideas made logical by Sly’s magnificence. I learned so much about making the unlikely into something rational.

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