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The Very Very Very Best Music of 2015 // The Year of Fortune Affectation
Or did the big sound dominate? A year speckled with curiosity, wonder and intricacy was certainly demarcated along the way by questions, some as arguably unimportant as this, others significantly more...
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Babyfather // Dean Blunt & Arca / Meditation / Instrumental
Whuttt?! Babyfather (a.k.a. Dean Blunt) & Arca team up for a split 10″ on Hyperdub. I missed the Blunty wetransfer collection back in May, which I understand included this, but HDB mp3 releases...
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J Dilla // The Diary / PayJay
Big1 Alertt. Dilla’s “long-lost” vocal album The Diary is set for release in a couple of months on the 15th of April. I first wrote about The Diary almost exactly 2 years ago, so am pleased that this...
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Boards of Canada Remixes // Odd Nosdam / Nevermen
BoC have been busy. They have cranked out two stunning remixes, both released this month, and both for Anticon-related projects. My favourite of the two is their remix for Nevermen’s track Mr Mistake...
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Painted Oceans // Sea Forts / Street Artists
I’m a big fan of the Thames Sea Forts and Project Redsand, and I’m also a big fan of murals, but I’m not yet sure what I think about the pairing of street artists and these historic forts. The way it...
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Leslie de Chavez // The Sleep of Reason / Arario Gallery / Seoul
I know very little about Leslie de Chavez or her work, but I was so taken by this study for her painting Currency Converter that I felt compelled to share it. Her exhibition Sleep of Reason has just...
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Ugo Rondinone // Seven Magic Mountains / Nevada Desert
Just opened this week, Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains provides yet another reason to inhale the Nevadic expanse. The boulders are all locally-sourced. Home-grown. Can’t wait to have an...
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Arca // Entrañas / Jesse Kanda / Mica Levi
Ooooffff. Seemingly out of nowhere Arca has dropped an absolute bangnana of a free album. Titled Entrañas (‘entrails’ in Spanish), and serving as a sono-colonic excavation, the album also overtly deals...
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DJ Shadow // Rappcats Pop-Up / LA / Sept. 2016
My eyes turned into a pair o’ Jolly Ranchers upon seeing that DJ Shadow will be off-loading a batch of his personal goodies, duplicates, rarities and merchandise over in LA next weekend, 10th – 11th of...
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The Very Very Very Best Music of 2016 // The Year of Joyous Undulation
Mid-January is probably cutting it fine in terms of acceptability of such lists, but for me a little something would be missing for the rest of the year without its publication. Positivity,...
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