Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) has encountered an unexpected production mishap, resulting in an intriguing mix-up. Rather than featuring her own songs, the vinyl pressing of the album mistakenly contains a compilation of rare UK electronica tracks from the 1990s. The mix-up came to light
Julius Eastman’s seminal work Feminine is receiving a vinyl pressing for the first time from Helsinki based label Frozen Reeds. The pressing is a remaster of a 1974 performance of the piece by the S.E.M Ensemble, featuring Eastman on piano. Eastman, a Black queer composer active in New York from
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Image by Zanele Muholi It makes a ridiculous amount of sense that Desire Marea should tap prolific queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi to shoot the cover for their immaculate debut album, DESIRE. No one else could have captured the multifaceted visionary quite like Muholi. Marea is an artist who
Image: black.round.twelve There was a time before the hour-long microbeat acid trip of Matsu that Ricardo Villalobos was busy crafting the music that would, in so many ways, shape his genre. Arguably one of the foremost pioneers in the minimal techno and micro-house scenes, the Chilean-German producer and DJ’s early
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Image by Georgina Cook There’s always been a sense of overt otherness about Burial. The London producer’s work often feels focused from the outside; a voyeur to the dance floor rather than the dance floor itself. It is this point of view that positions Burial as an infamously elusive practitioner,
Image by Harrison Reid Closely following the release of In Ferneaux in February, experimental maestro Benjamin John Power or Blanck Mass has released a new live LP, Mind Killer. The project is released via his own label, Weirding Way. The LP is an entirely improvised performance that was originally live-streamed
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As people have been saying home due to the pandemic without attending live shows, they’ve instead been spending their hard-earned cash supporting musicians via vinyl records. If one keeps up with current trends; whether it be music, fashion, art (the list goes on) – they may notice that often specific
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Order Concorde vinyl Le Couleur, a French-disco meets synth-pop band, have allowed will allow the purchase of a limited edition 12” vinyl copy of their new album, Concorde. The album will be available digitally on the 11th of September but we think this one is worth adding to your permanent
“To all the wonderful customers. It is with great sadness we report the Apollo Masters manufacturing and storage facility had a devastating fire and suffered catastrophic damage. The best news is all of our employees are safe. We are uncertain of our future at this point and are evaluating options
Trends come and go, yet it’s rare to see a new ‘fad’ emerge and actually – stick around. It becomes more than just a trend that people are latching onto as the latest mainstream interest. Instead, it blooms into a regular part of our everyday lives; strange to consider what
