In Depth
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How I Found Beauty in the Beat
Some time around the start of last year I found myself scanning through my music library, and coming to the realisation that something was slowing eating it’s way into my tastes. A slew of tracks and albums praising the skills of the hustler, the dope dealer, the ost... »
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DiSsection: El Guincho - Pop Negro track by track
El Guincho give us the run down on his forthcoming new album, Pop Negro, out on 14 September on XL Recordings. »
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Favourite 50: The Bug London Zoo (chosen by Si Truss)
As part of our 10-week “DiS is 10!” celebration, we’ve asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. This is not a best or "top" list, simply records individuals wished to highlight. Here, DiS contributor Si Tru... »
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Interview
DiS meets Baths
Baths is the latest electronic music project of Will Wiesenfeld, an LA musician who this month released his debut album Cerulean. The record’s eclectic mix of styles and ideas saw it garner a good deal of critical acclaim upon release, including the »
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In Depth
Don’t Fool with the Dips – A Dipset Retrospective
Robert Fedderson looks back at The Diplomats. »
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Crunk and Not So Disorderly - When Sultry Melodics Met Rap Histrionics
For anyone who thinks commerce diminishes music, I present a counter-argument: Crunk'n'b. Since the beginning of time, rap and Rn'B have been cross-pollinating in a for-the-most-part nakedly commercial arrangement: Rn'B singers get rappers to guest on their songs, in... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 06/09/10
Single of the Week! Dels - ‘Shapeshift’ (Big Dada) Some things about ‘Shapeshift’ then. 1 - It has been two years since he released ‘Lazy’, which is a long time. Or to look it another way, he is doing this thing at his own – entirely comfortable - p »
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Column
armchair dancefloor 022 incl Zero dB mix
In this month's look at the best electronic releases: travelling with Shed, working up a gloomy sweat with Kassem Mosse, DJ Nate's dizzying footwork and Hildur Gudnadottir's inimitably European brand... »
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Interview
DiS meets Wild Nothing
We meet Jack Tatum, aka Wild Nothing, in a London tattoo parlour where the sound of buzzing needles is pounded into the background by aggressively loud heavy metal music. Sensing this is not an ideal interview venue, and with no plans to get ink himself, »
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Aquacrunk? What the Crunk? - A brief introduction to the watery side of electronics
The world of electronic music is so littered with sub-genres now that it is far too difficult for many to keep track. More than anything, the awareness that terms for certain minutiae of change in a sonic spectrum is journalistic. But sometimes such defining words ca... »
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Favourite 50: Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance (chosen by Robert Cooke)
They named themselves after a song by The Smiths, but it was difficult to trace the connection between Morrissey and Marr’s maudlin melodies and Good Health, the first album by Pretty Girls Make Graves. Things became a lot clearer on The New Romance, th »
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Interview
DiS meets Best Coast
Californian outfit Best Coast are a trio based primarily around the songs of singer/songwriter/all round musician Bethany Cosentino. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #59 - This week on DiS as a playlist
Another edition of our weekly Spotify playlists, this one featuring a whole FIVE bands whose name begins with W. They are Women, Weezer, The Wrens, White Hinterland and Wildbirds & Peacedrums. Click here to listen to this playlist. 1. Everything Ev »
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Everything Everything Tour Diary
To celebrate the release of their most excellent debut album, Michael from Everything Everything has compiled a tour diary for us, documenting the band's adventures this August at Summersonic Festival in Tokyo... Thursday August 6th Guy, our tour man »
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Everything Everything's City Guide to Manchester
Jeremy from Everything Everything wrote us a few words about his favourite places in Manchester... Night and Day Cafe, Oldham Street We'll start here because we did. We played our first gig here. Every band of the last two decades you can name has bee »
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In Depth
DiS Meets Sleigh Bells
Is it fair to bellow over everyone else? Erupting from Brooklyn, Sleigh Bells have pelted eardrums of the curious with possibly the loudest release this year in the form of debut album Treats. With complete disregard for arguments about over-compression a »
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Favourite 50: The Wrens - The Meadowlands (chosen by Bruce Porter)
As part of our 10-week “DiS is 10!” celebration, we’ve asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. Here, DiS contributor Bruce Porter (aka OceanRain) shares his choice. On the face of it, Th »
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Favourite 50: Marnie Stern In Advance of the Broken Arm (chosen by Alexander Tudor)
There’s a track on Marnie’s forthcoming record called ‘Female Guitar Players Are the New Black’, which (for the moment) has a rather delicious ambiguity to it. Does she mean something like John & Yoko did, with a certain cringeworthy song, or that n »
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Interview
DiS meets Avi Buffalo
Being warned by the police for making a racket in your parent’s garage isn’t usually a sign of musical success, but the cops in Long Beach, California clearly missed a trick by giving Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg a telling off. Soon afterwards, the skateboardi »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 30/08/10
This week I have gone to the caravan again to range about on empty beaches and ponder my own essential self, because I really am a bit dread. Lucky for you, all this means in terms of singles, is that I am very cosy as I write about ‘em. »
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Interview
DiS meets Diana Vickers
Mention the name Diana Vickers on the DiS forum boards and you're likely to find yourself chased off the site far away into the sunset. If you're lucky. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #57 - This week on DiS as a playlist
We're back! »
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Festival Review
Green Man Festival 2010: the DiS review
You’ll already know by now that Green Man was pretty darn wet this year, so let’s not mention that too much. Or the fact DiS’s tent was unable to withstand the deluge. Despite the inclement conditions, the music was really good - at times, great - and the atmosphere ... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #57 & #58 - This week (and last!) on DiS as a playlist
This week's content mashed into the form of a Spotify playlist, featuring the likes of Orange Juice, Ghostface Killah, Mogwai, El Guincho, Arab Strap, Flying Lotus and Klaxons. »