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How did Michael Jackson challenge our understanding of spine biomechanics?
New forms of dancing inspired by Michael Jackson have begun to challenge our understanding of the modes and mechanisms of spinal injury. (read more)
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Jon Hopkins: Singularity
Smashed beats so metallic you can almost taste the blood. Jon Hopkins kills it with Singularity (read more)
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Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman
Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously (read more)
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From Me To You (Steven Rutter)
How does a futuristic vision hold up when time passes? Very well, in Steven Rutter’s case (read more)
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Kotä: Selected Works of Experimental Music and Art Expo
The Russians aren’t coming. But you can go to them. And should. (read more)
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Pact Infernal on Stroboscopic Artefacts (Monad XXV)
Architectural depth and space, dark sonics, incantatory beats – Stroboscopic Artefacts produce the goods once more (read more)
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Broken Beats, Split Personalities: Stranger (Joanne Pollock)
Frosty and frantic – there are two sides to the iceberg that is Joanne Pollock’s debut (read more)
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Part Time Punks Sessions (Inhalt)
Is contemporary artists carrying on the electronic traditions of the 1980s: a cultural ourobouros or just clean fun? (read more)
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Music shouldn’t be easy to listen to: Lisbon Kid (Interview)
Lisbon Kid talk sounds, scenery and saudades (read more)
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(Other People’s) Hooks in the Millions (Olsson)
Destined to be discarded, Olsson pushes the right buttons with Millions. Just not hard enough. (read more)
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Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)
Perc’s Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Womadelaide 2017
After 25 years, Womadelaide still surprises. Photos from 2017’s edition (read more)
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Slippers and Chardonnay Time? (Womadelaide Epilogue)
25 years of festivals proves that, despite grumbles from the old ‘uns, Womadelaide knows best. (read more)
Features
Joy and Division: Peter Hook (Interview)
Peter Hook talks New Order, Joy Division and women in yoghurt. (read more)
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Grey Monday (More Blue Rinse than Blue Skies): Womadelaide
Kids waving flags, fruitbats cackling and an improvisational spin at Womadelaide (read more)
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Womadelaide Walkies: Saturday Footmash
Can an old fella still handle festivals? Fruitbats and foot care at Womadelaide (read more)
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Coldcut team with On-U Sound and Roots Manuva
A spiky rallying cry for Britain’s indestructible musical melting pot. (read more)
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Cabaret Voltaire Go Deep Into The Devil’s Arse (and invite you to join them)
Solid electronica with provenance… from the depths of a Derbyshire cave (read more)
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Womadelaide Walkabout: Friday Flashbacks
Starting hot, WOMADelaide got hotter still with the activist politics of Ana Tijoux and the Slavic blues of Warsaw Village Band (read more)
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Going Down the Soul Mine?
The Soul Mine returns to Hanway Social for a late night of soul, funk and 60s sharp cuts (read more)
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WOMADelaide Walkabout, Part One.
A quarter century in, does WOMADelaide still deliver? (read more)
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Art can provide a mirror to people’s lives: Company Chameleon
ance tends to find a way, regardless of setting. Comforting as it may be, there is no real need to invoke the Billy Elliot myth of northern lad shucking off the grim strictures of working (read more)
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Optimistic By Definition: 30drop on Techno’s Future (Interview)
‘Technology will be the vehicle that leads us to that new revolution’ (read more)
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Emotional Journeys Beyond the Fourth Wall: Cirque Bijou
Busy? Hell yeah! Embracing the moment and making an impact with Cirque Bijou (read more)
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Take a Pew. Piano Day, Union Chapel
Piano, Grime, Jazz and Dance at the Union Chapel, London. (read more)
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Seven Stages of Sunny Fun: WOMADelaide
Meet you under the Morton Bay figtrees. Womadelaide preview (read more)
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Inexorable Implosions, Ominous Promise: Grebenstein
Simultaneously sobering and intoxicating decelerationist post-techno (read more)
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Urban(e) Legends: Prodigal Theatre & The Urban Playground Team
Fourth wall on the street? Not our style at all. (read more)
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Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)
Dead Light, makers of 2016’s intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album. (read more)
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Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)
Le Spectre’s Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark (read more)