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Flying Lotus & Infinity at ICAThursday, 19 August 2010![]() Steven Ellison is one of the most fascinating figures in modern music. Son of Motown songwriter Marylin McLeod and nephew to Alice Coltrane, he's inspired in equal part by his own musical heritage, the slow-and-low hip hop of his home state of... Read more... |
Silver Apples, The LuminaireTuesday, 10 August 2010![]() One doesn't want to be prejudiced about audiences, but when you go to see a show by a “pioneer of electronic music”, particularly one in his seventies, you most likely expect a crowd that are fairly male, fairly unfunky and tending towards the... Read more... |
Rinse and repeatThursday, 17 June 2010![]() Today Rinse FM, London's leading pirate radio station, announced it has been granted a legal broadcast licence after 16 years of illicit transmissions. It's almost impossible to overstate how potentially momentous this event is for the UK's most... Read more... |
Tinie Tempah and the rise and rise of black British popFriday, 19 March 2010![]() A little revolution is taking place at the top of the pop charts. UK artist Tinie Tempah's rap track “Pass Out” has had two weeks at number one, and at the time of writing looks very much like it may successfully fight off Lady Gaga & Beyonce's... Read more... |
Q&A special: Rave for HaitiFriday, 22 January 2010![]() Amongst all the musical benefits for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, one club event which took place on Wednesday night in London stands out as a small, but powerful, beacon of hope. Not because it could rival Jay Z and U2 for levels of funds... Read more... |
Electronica 2000-9: Back to the Grass RootsSaturday, 02 January 2010![]() The received opinion is that the music of the 2000s has been characterised by fragmentation, discontinuity, faddishness and a lack of coherent identity. And while that perhaps is true on a macro scale, within underground music completely the... Read more... |
New Music CDs Round-Up 3Friday, 04 December 2009![]() This round-up of the freshest new music and most well-ripened classics we could find in November features everything from Miles Davis to Kraftwerk, Norah Jones to the actual Pope, via Toms Petty and Waits, Dubstep and related bass-driven electronica... Read more... |
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