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Nicolas Godin: Homes Alone

Not so much dancing to it, but certainly soundtracking it, Nicolas Godin’s second solo album, ‘Concrete And Glass’, pays tribute to the career he should have had if music hadn’t come calling… 
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Money Mark: Roll With It

Beastie Boys’ cohort, in-house carpenter, and all-round keyboard whiz Money Mark has created a 21st century player piano that converts holes in paper rolls into MIDI data. Mark’s Keyboard Repair indeed 
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Independence Day

The first weekly Independent Chart was published on 19 January 1980. We talk to Cherry Red’s Iain McNay and Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis, the instigator and the catalyst, about how punk rock and a garden shed ignited the indie label revolution
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The Home Current: Current Affairs

Releasing a mere seven albums in the last 18 months, what has made Danish DJ/producer Martin Jensen – aka The Home Current – such an unstoppable force? Among the unlikely answers are Brexit and birdwatching 
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Hula ‘Freeze Out’

Ron Wright, from Sheffield’s second-wave industrial funkers Hula, talks us through the making of the 1986 Steel Town electro showstopper, ‘Freeze Out’
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The Nurse With Wound List

In 1978, Nurse With Wound lynchpins Steve Stapleton and John Fothergill were unknown noise merchants. Then they made a list that would accidentally become the guiding light for experimental music creators