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In the final instalment of our monthly mix column, Tayyab Amin listens to Brazil’s Badsista, Ireland’s Sunil Sharpe and texture obsessive Beta Librae
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Britain’s biggest female star tightens her grip on the crown with a viscerally brilliant second album
Dua Lipa could have taken an easy path to sustaining her status as Britain’s most successful female pop star on album number two. A few Ed Sheeran co-writes, some savvy collaborations, 17 tracks (one for every Spotify genre playlist), a few on-trend lyrics about anxiety and skipping a party: deal sealed. But she’s done the complete opposite. The 11-track Future Nostalgia offers neither features nor filler, and makes a strident case for Lipa as a pop visionary, not a vessel.
Continue reading...In Listener’s Digest, a new series to help you through self-isolation, our writers will help you explore the work of great pop musicians. We start with the German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk
While many of us worldwide are unable to experience live music during the coronavirus crisis, or even socialise as normal, we can still use streaming services. Now is the time to delve into that artist you’ve always wanted to check out more deeply – but where to start?
This week we’re starting a new series to run during the outbreak (and potentially beyond it) called Listener’s Digest, in which our writers guide you through the back catalogues of various musicians. These aren’t designed to be exhaustive or definitive, but helpful signposts to get you started in some of the world’s most exhilarating bodies of popular music. We kick off with Kraftwerk, and coming up in week one we will have Rihanna, the Fall, Alice Coltrane and Sleater-Kinney. We’ll include a 10-song primer playlist with each, in Spotify and Apple Music.
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The Eno brothers have collaborated before, most recently on 2019’s revamp of the celebrated 1983 Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks documentary score (credited to Brian). Mixing Colours, the Enos’ duo debut, is a double sound-painting made up of natural phenomena (in tracks such as Snow, Desert Sand) and colours (Ultramarine, Burnt Umber) that plays out as an intimate conversation. Fifteen years in the on-off making, its slowly unspooling, generative beauty feels like a balm for these anxious times.
Most of these bejewelled instrumental tracks began with multi-instrumentalist Roger – the younger, less well-known brother, an experimental musician in his own right – on piano. His slow key strikes are bell-like. These compositional sketches would then make their way to Brian, who would work on them on the train, adding resonance.
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Låpsley’s second album is stripped of collaborators, but its clean aesthetic highlights the scars of real experience
On her 2016 debut, Liverpudlian electronic pop singer Låpsley worked with a brains trust of songwriters and producers to try her hand at chart anthems, trip-hop and – in the joyful Operator – a disco track that ruled festival season. For her second album, she seems to have brushed away the lint left by an excess of collaborators, instead writing and producing everything herself with input from a sole engineer, and honing in on a singular, clean aesthetic.
Continue reading...The conference in Austin, Texas, was cancelled – so they organised a showcase livestream. Then that was cancelled too. Here’s a playlist instead
This week, in an alternative universe devoid of coronavirus, more than 40 emerging Australian acts would have been in Austin, Texas, knee-deep in the now-cancelled South by South West, showcasing their work to the international industry in hopes of taking their careers to the next level.
“It is a huge achievement to have been selected from the 7,000-plus artists that apply each year,” said Millie Milgate, executive producer of the industry body Sounds Australia, after the conference was cancelled. “To have lost this opportunity after spending several months and thousands of dollars preparing and planning is devastating.”
Continue reading...Whether it’s electronic drones or perfect pop ballads, our music editors have brought together 60 profoundly beautiful songs to calm the Covid-19 stress. Suggest your own in the comments
Continue reading...With nightclubs such as Fabric and Ministry of Sound closing their doors because of coronavirus, the Bang Face festival was the last chance for Britons to rave for some time
Bang Face, a dance music festival held at Southport holiday park Pontins, is known for a particularly hell-for-leather approach to jackhammering dance music, gallows humour and airborne inflatables. Held over the weekend before Downing Street decided to advise against all gatherings of this kind, it will likely be the last major dance music event in the UK for some time. Nightclubs including London’s Fabric and Ministry of Sound announced its temporary closure yesterday, and festivals such as Re-Textured have been cancelled.
Jokes circulated in the run-up to Bang Face about the irony that rave duo Altern-8, the weekender’s de facto house band, are not only known for wearing boilersuits and face masks, but would be playing mostly hits from their 1992 album Full On … Mask Hysteria, casting them as unlikely oracles. The festival was set to be something of a pre-apocalyptic knees-up.
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While his music has been criticised as being too cerebral to connect with on a visceral level, try telling that to this crowd
Sunday evening and the atmosphere in Brighton Dome feels curiously subdued. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that you can’t escape current events. Jon Hopkins’ most recent album, 2018’s Singularity, unexpectedly made the Top 10. This sold-out gig is nevertheless pockmarked with empty seats. There seems every chance that this is the last concert anyone here will be going to for the foreseeable future, but some ticket holders have clearly decided that even that isn’t incentive enough to leave home.
Or perhaps a muted atmosphere generally prevails at gigs by Hopkins, a sometime Coldplay and Brian Eno collaborator whose music exists at a distinctly cerebral nexus where contemporary classical meets soundtrack-y ambience and egghead techno that would once have earned the frightful generic label intelligent dance music. It’s where profile-boosting appearances on Spotify curated playlists called things such as 4am Chillout and Atmospheric Calm meet generative sound installations.
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Continue reading...This documentary exploring the 80s-obsessed synthwave sound has admirable production values, but trades deep analysis for platitudes and boring asides
If you have ever strutted around in sunglasses and a silken bomber jacket, and didn’t even have to try to keep a straight face, chances are you’re into synthwave. This subcultural genre of music, characterised by anthemic analogue synth lines, is explored in this stylish but shallow documentary.
The partly crowdfunded film makes a reverse historical sweep of the genre, ending where the music started with the sober, even ascetic work of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. This was gloriously cheapened by Giorgio Moroder, who made the sound aspirational and decadent, inspiring not only pop but also film soundtracks, where synth sounds were easy signifiers for the future. The style fell out of favour as the 90s embraced guitars again, but Daft Punk became the key act to bring it back – their light-up pyramid stage set is the defining icon of the synthwave aesthetic – and influenced a host of new producers.
Continue reading...Growing up in the aftermath of civil war, his father a controversial former general, the producer has channelled his shocking experiences into a vital electronic album
The perkiest song on Guerrilla, the debut album by the Angolan artist Nazar, is an ode to deadly military technology. “This is a restricted weapon,” we hear on FIM-92 Stinger, a shaky kuduro rhythm brightened by synth marimba. In the murky world of Guerrilla – part war diary, part family memoir – acquiring an anti-aircraft missile is cause for celebration. “That thing symbolised a good time for people in the rebellion,” Nazar explains. “They didn’t have to be so scared of airstrikes because they had an umbrella over them.”
The son of a general in Jonas Savimbi’s Unita rebel group, Nazar was born in Belgium in 1993. He grew up in the relative safety of suburban Brussels – barring a foiled kidnap attempt on his sister and the spectre of street gangs – as the Angolan civil war raged. After the nation became independent from Portugal in 1975, it was engulfed in a war between the communist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), backed by Reagan and the CIA. Nazar’s mother worked two jobs to keep the family in a middle-class neighbourhood. When peace came to Angola in 2002 after nearly three decades of fighting and the loss of an estimated 500,000 lives, the family moved back and Nazar encountered his homeland for the first time.
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We are so happy and proud to announce that thanks to everyone’s contributions on the night of Simon Says, we’ve raised over £4,186! The event was already a night to remember thanks our performers including the Nawi Collective , Inja , Rachel K Collier, Rags Rudi, DJ BobaFatt, Suitman Jungle, Soulvent Soundsystem, DJ London Elektricity, and of course the DJs at Wah Wah 45S with Dom Servini, Adam Scrimshire and Chris Goss.
A night of big love with family, friends, and supporters of the cause has led us to this big achievement.
A big thank you to everyone!
All proceeds go to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
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Listen again here!
Intro
Web Web – The Upper (Parts 1 & 2)
Karmasound – Dando Vueltas
Rhi – How Deep (Nuff Pedals Remix)
Moses Boyd – Shades Of You feat. Poppy Ajudha
Wajatta – January
SIRS – Never Was Love
Larry Rose Band – The Sand
Scrimshire – Thru You (Nite Jewel Remix) feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow
Andrew Weatherall – End Times Sound
Jerry Paper – Quicksand
Daniel Merriweather – Everything I Need
Jordan Rakei – Signs feat. Common
Ben Michael – Until Now
Steve Spacek – Where We Go
Hideto Sasaki – Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet +1 – Turquoise Twice
Jeff Cascaro – The Masquerade
Roos Jonker & Dean Tippet – This One
Tall Black Guy – I Will Never Know (14KT Remix) feat. Moonchild
The Heliocentrics – Hanging by a Thread
Kutiman – Saluf
Toni Sauna – I Can Fight
Knxwledge – howtokope
Thundercat – Dragonball Durag
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange – Candy Flip
Lexsoul Dancemachine – Nu Reality
Ivan Conti – Katmandu (Jazzanova Remix)
Zito Mowa – A.A.R. w/ Malik Ameer
RAS – Boogie
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SWX, Bristol
The London chart fixture needs to add some danger and mayhem to his efficiently delivered series of set pieces
The stage is heaving with bodies, including a lion, a medical school skeleton, and some stragglers from a Día de los Muertos parade. They’re orbiting a pogoing Jax Jones, and in its dying moments, the producer’s set has finally tumbled into the sort of mayhem it has only previously hinted at.
In response, the crowd throws itself into hokey choreography as Instruction, his exuberant combination with Demi Lovato and Stefflon Don, reverberates around the room. Jones’s pop-house workouts are perfect for moments like this, joining the dots between gym playlist and boozy blowout, and live it would be wise to facilitate a few more of them in future.
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With less than a week to go until the 10th edition of Simon Says, the full lineup of the big event has been announced!
Join us for a special evening with NAWI Collective, INJA (spoken word set), Rachel K. Collier, Rags Rudi, The Wah Wah 45s Players feat. special guests Natalie Williams & Rick Nunn from The Milk, Suitman Jungle, London Elektricity, Soulvent Soundsystem, DJ Bobafatt, Marko Pavlovic, Raimund Flock, Dom Servini, Scrimshire, Chris Goss.
Tickets are flying fast! Catch the last few here.
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Dom and Chris present a Simon Says Special ahead of the final charity event at The Jazz Cafe on Thursday March 5th in memory of Chris’ late brother, Simon. The show includes some classic tunes from his DJ sets, music from the artists performing at the event, and a very special mix from BobaFatt. Get yourself in the mood for our very unique night with this very unique radio show.
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Amid the bushfires, Ciel highlights Australian sounds, while Carista, Galcher Lustwerk and Anunaku are among the other selectors in our underground dance roundup
Continue reading...Nowhere beats the German capital for hedonism – which is one reason the price of real estate is rocketing. Can the club scene survive? As its home venue is closed down, we hit legendary party Cocktail d’Amore
It is 1am on a Saturday and the crowd outside Berlin LGBTQ+ club night Cocktail d’Amore stretches from the door of its venue, Griessmuehle, along the side of the Neukölln Ship Canal and out on to the road. It takes the best part of five minutes to walk from one end of the queue to the other, and these are just the early birds: Cocktail d’Amore opened its doors an hour ago, and will go on continuously for the next 56 hours, ending at 8am on Monday.
You can see why Cocktail d’Amore is such a draw. From a distance, Griessmuehle looks more like a wonderland than you might expect a converted grain mill to look: a haze of multicoloured lights glowing on the canal. Inside, Cocktail d’Amore feels like a Platonic ideal of what a club night should be. The sound system is immaculate, the music fantastic. While I’m there, at least, it leans towards the kind of sinuous mid-tempo sound that Andy Weatherall jokingly described as “drug-chug”; the late DJ was so enamoured of playing the room at Cocktail d’Amore dubbed the Cosmic Hole that he wrote a track inspired by the experience, Into the Cosmic Hole.
It gives you surreal moments. You lose your sense of the world in these industrial spaces
The city invested €1m in soundproofing clubs to avoid neighbour complaints about noise
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