mon 09/06/2025

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Flying Lotus & Infinity at ICA

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...

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Silver Apples, The Luminaire

The spry Simeon Coxe operates his esoteric machines

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...

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Rinse and repeat

The cover of Rinse FM's first compilation CD featuring station founder Geeneus

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...

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Tinie Tempah and the rise and rise of black British pop

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...

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Q&A special: Rave for Haiti

Grime rapper Jammer, one of hundreds of artists involved with Rave For Haiti

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...

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Electronica 2000-9: Back to the Grass Roots

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...

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New Music CDs Round-Up 3

CD of the Month: 'What makes this one worth a visit is the extraordinary feral roar of Tom Waits' vocal'

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...

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