The music business is utterly enshittified. What's next?
Ruminations from the epicenter of Slopworld.
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Intergenerational electronics: Spacetime Continuum & Cahl Sel
A longform interview on Cahl Sel's new album, Reflective Records, live performance, West Coast rave history, and more.
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Now Listening: London post-everything, electroacoustic beauty, outsider pop
Records by Tracey, rest symbol, Khaled Kurbeh, Sunju Hargun, and Paul Arámbula.
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Orphx: Three decades of rhythm 'n noise
Canadian artists Rich Oddie & Christina Sealey have collided industrial music with techno's rhythmic frontiers for 32 years running.
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Now Listening: Ambient dub, mood pop, alt rock, joyous club
Music by Davis Galvin, ex_libris, sachi's mirror, Roomer, schuttle + Jorg Kuning.
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Dripping 2025 reconfigured my festival calculus
Discomfort, acceptance, surprise, and exaltation in the woods of New Jersey.
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Words With Orchestroll: Montreal, Milan, Ghosts in the Machine
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Asaël Robitaille discuss collaboration, hybridization, soundsystem ambient, and "Corrosiv," their new album on 29 Speedway.
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Now Listening: Introspective Dance Music, Crab-Walk Rhythms, Diasporic Drum'n'Bass
Records by Mineral Stunting, Plumes of Enceladus, Lara Sarkissian, Yetsuby, and Cahl Sel.
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Silicon Valley Hates You
The Silicon Valley death drive is the resoundingly anti-human, anti-creative conceit at the root of generative AI development.
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Words With Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Root Strata, the San Francisco Scene, and Music as Gift
The roots of Root Strata and its S.F. scene; the genesis of "Gift Songs"; ambient music as phenomenon; the creative process.
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Now Listening: Deep Drone, New Industrial, Downtempo Freak Rippers
New records from Grand River, Civilistjävel!, Rivet, Torn Hawk, and Enxin/Onyx.
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Words With: TRjj, TRii, TRii Group
Conversations with a mysterious German artist on authorship, the intimacy of music, sharing art as a means of sharing oneself, graphic design, and more.
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