Electronic
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Having been found guilty on corruption charges, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces an arrest warrant tonight. This after da Silva’s request that he not be jailed while he seeks an appeal was rejected. The 72-year-old – a still-popular leader who began his career on a factory shop floor – is battling…
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We’ve become accustomed to anonymity in art. As egotism has grown increasingly acceptable in popular culture, the decision to release work under a pseudonym is recognized as a progressive statement. It’s about putting the art first. In this respect, it’s a kind of selflessness that we could do with a great deal more of. It…
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Berlin’s Jazz-O-Tech label is off to a ripping start with its first release. The White Gardenia Vol.1 compilation offers up half a dozen acts combining sophisticated electronics with varying degrees of jazz influence. Every name here is worth marking down. Painè starts us off with an old-fashioned bop drum solo, sax and snapping fingers. He…
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Listeners who find the title of this new Superalma Project album’s opener a bit on the nose can hardly be blamed. “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” has an obvious resonance in the Age of Trump. But then artists have been quoting George Orwell for decades, convinced that they were living in…
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The fourth instalment in Peter Kutin’s and Florian Kindlinger’s Decomposition series landed at the beginning of March. Decomposition IV: Variations on Bulletproof Glass is very much as advertised. The duo abused a 400-kilogram slab of bulletproof glass measuring two by three metres and recorded the whole thing for posterity. At one point, a wrecking ball…
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As a child, my wife Lisa was desperate to learn the piano. She was too young to understand how big an ask this was of her hard-working parents. Hilda and Stan were as generous as they could be with their two kids in those days. But a piano was no small thing, financially or otherwise.…
The Moderns 