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Music: Chemical Chords
No strangers to trial and tragedy, Stereolab's Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier have spent the last 17 years shuttling between labels, flirting with mainstream success, and, more recently, mourning the...
Music: Knowle West Boy
Former Massive Attack collaborator Tricky's LA digs may be miles from the Bristol housing estate named in Knowle West Boy's title, but who says memories can't be compelling? Ragga ballad "Bacative"...
Music: High Places
Like water trickling through outstretched fingers, the found-sound melodies of Brooklyn duo High Places suggest escape. Warm, rippling, reverb-heavy beats bump into each other, bending and bowing l...
Music: A Matter of Scale
Given Secondo mastermind Radovan Scasascia's compositional method — chopping house, disco, and boogie tracks into microscopic samples and then re-assembling them into glitch-riddled house, disco, a...
Music: Cortical Songs
While many will find their way to Cortical Songs via Radiohead's Thom Yorke, be forewarned: his is but one track — a three-minute remix of the composers' source material that doesn't bear a particu...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...
Call to Mind
Ever since Hospital Records dropped the Future Sound of Cambridge compilation back in 2004, the region has hosted a drum 'n bass resurgence. Of the three artists featured on that breakthrough EP, ...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...