The Birth of Loop A Short History of Looping Music Although repetition is a major force in music it was never used in this way before Terry Riley Repetition is a form of change Brian Eno A way for one person to make an awful lot of noise. Wonderful! Robert Fripp This page tries to summarize the…

in Writing | July 18th, 2016 1 Comment Advertisement The inner critic creates writer’s block and stifles adventurous writing, hems it in with safe clichés and overthinking. Every writer has to find his or her own way to get free of that sourpuss rationalist who insists on strangling each thought…

Bran Castle, RomaniaNone This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through overwork, incapable of productive activity, I found myself drifting through social networks, feeling my depression and exhaustion increasing. ‘Left-wing’ Twitter can often be…

For reporting purposes, employers tend to "over-ask" for demographic data such as age, gender and ethnicity. Particularly when asked for something related to work, the question of gender with seemingly simple "female" and "male" options can pose a challenge for transgender people, particularly those…

A few months ago a friend wrote me an email with the subject line, “What is Sean McElwee.” This is the kind of question that occurs to a person who spends a lot of time on Twitter. In 2018, McElwee’s tweets seemed to abound in liberal cyberspace. He was best known for his jeremiads about abolishing…

“A song asale should have said so much/ Makes it harder the more you love” – Mark Hollis, “Watershed” When I began the feature I wrote about Mark Hollis for The Wire 167 in 1998 with the words, “Thrill is gone”, it was not just that a case of the November blues had appeared to hang like a pall over…

Unlocking the mysteries behind the Scottish electronic duo’s hallucinatory classic, which turns 20 this month Collages by Bryan Olson Once upon a time there was a London vintage clothing boutique that

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John Waters. Illustration by Ken Ingels. Somehow I became respectable. I don’t know how—the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and was rated NC-17. Six people in my personal phone book have been sentenced to life in prison. I did an art piece called Twelve Assholes and a Dirty Foot ,…

Chuck Berry, 1958. Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire. Chuck Berry, 1958. 1. ‘The Vault Is on Fire’ The fire that swept across the backlot of Universal…

I n the Philharmonie de Paris on an overcast Tuesday afternoon, Jean-Yves Leloup is pondering why what may be the most comprehensive exhibition ever assembled about the history of electronic music is

"Fuck it. I'll tell you the secret to it all." The artist also known as Special Request unpacks his methods for Mark Smith. I didn't expect my conversation with Paul Woolford about music production to be quite so involving. In the hours we spent together, the Leeds native was remarkably animated and…

It doesn’t so much begin as swoop into land: thirty seconds of silence followed by the gathering swell of sputtering static and a sighing, weary chorus of what might be low- flying aircraft. At around the fifteenth minute, new sounds cut through the haze: a thin, whining synth tone, a muddy kick…

Joe Muggs goes deep with the seminal Warp Records duo. When people talk about Autechre, there are generally two camps. For the casually interested, they're the '90s electronica act who most conspicuously went weird. After two albums of pretty post-rave listening music, they became the epitome of…

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Four years ago, she was a global superstar. Then a contract dispute — and her rape claim against her producer — sent her career into the wilderness. The Exile Kesha. Jack Davison for The New York Times. Styling by Shelby Scudder. Hair and makeup by Vittorio Masecchia. Manicure by Miho Okawara. K…

Twenty years after its release, My Bloody Valentine’s second album, Loveless , is regarded as something of a masterpiece, yet at the time the story of its production threatened to overshadow the music. Contrary to its title, the album was a labour of love for guitarist, writer and singer, Kevin…

When the chance came to interview Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, my hand shot up. The shadow of Kevin Shields looms large over my record collection, and the fanboy in me couldn't resist the idea of talking to a guy for whom I have so much respect. But after I got the nod, I wondered if I'd…

Joe Muggs goes deep with the seminal Warp Records duo. When people talk about Autechre, there are generally two camps. For the casually interested, they're the '90s electronica act who most conspicuously went weird. After two albums of pretty post-rave listening music, they became the epitome of…

It was sometime around 1997 or 1998 when author and rock journalist Michael Azerrad was sitting at home watching a generic multi-part history on rock ’n’ roll. It was late in the evening, and the episode he caught detailed the history of punk rock—or was supposed to. But something was wrong. “It…

Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray Of the four albums the Happy Mondays…

Opinion Stop Googling. Let’s Talk. Credit Yann Kebbi COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting…

The Idea in Brief A robot falls in love in a post-apocalyptic world. A French rat sets out to become a chef. A suburban family of superheroes defeats a power-hungry villain. Unexpected ideas, all—yet Pixar Animation Studios is turning these and other novel ideas into blockbuster films. How? As…

Component is a section of Aux.Out. for one-off pieces, special editorials, and lost orphans of the music discussion. Today, Gary Suarez speaks with Justin Broadrick about the rise and fall of Godflesh, the influential metal band that begot Jesu and, eventually, reunited. ~ Justin Broadrick couldn’t…