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Leafcutter John: Making Waves

For his latest outing, Leafcutter John walked the Norfolk coast and recorded the sounds he heard along the way, mixing them with modular synth melodies for his latest album. Released on James Holden’s revered Border Community label, it’s his most direct and delightful work yet
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Roosevelt

Mixing the worlds of electroncia, Indie and disco, the second long-player from Cologne’s Roosevelt has found its way onto our turntable with some regularity. That being the case, it would be rude not to have a chat with him about it, right?
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Miss Red

In which Livewire dancehall MC Miss Red hooks up with Ninja Tune dub prof The Bug to serve up one heck of a debut album. Talk about blowing the bloody doors off. They’re calling it future dancehall AND who are we to argue?
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Reed & Caroline ‘Hello Science’ (Very)

On their first album, the excellent ‘Buchla & Singing’, folk songwriter Caroline Schutz and synth sorcerer Reed Hays set compositions about such offbeat subjects as the beauty of washing machines or the lifecycle of earthworms to infectious electronic melodies and pristine beats.
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Jon Hopkins: One-Track Mind

The inspiration behind Jon Hopkins’ new album ‘Singularity’ is quite surprising… we talk psychedelic trips in the desert, transcendental meditation on planes, bird watching and wild swimming, oh yes we do
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Raf Rundell: Life, the universe and everything

Raf Rundell has a double-edged sword for a muse. His new life as a parent has equally exposed the woes of the world and incited hope for his offsping’s future. He lays both bare on his reflective new album, ‘Stop Lying’