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  • Gal Wine: The Secret History of Sistermatic

  • Popcaan is setting the gold standard

  • Liturgy want to invoke heaven through sound

  • Rye Lane: Raine Allen-Miller in conversation with Vivian Oparah

  • Rising: Yushh is on a quest for something new

  • Nesa Azadikhah and AIDA on their new compilation, protest and raising awareness through music

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Sunday Mix: Perila

Today’s Sunday Mix is dedicated to “all forms of evaporation” as ambient artist Perila explores the “breathing qualities of sound”

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Erykah Badu and Aphex Twin announced for Forwards Festival 2023

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Radiohead to release new music in the next couple of years

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Pusha T, Yves Tumor and Jockstrap to play We Love Green 2023

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A petition has been launched to save Chicago’s The Warehouse, the birthplace of house music

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Zebra Katz, Amnesia Scanner and Lingua Ignota confirmed for Donaufestival 2023

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Crack Magazine is hosting a club night at Nuits Sonores

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A24 to re-release Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense concert film

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Devonté Hynes shares details of his new series Composed

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Dour Festival completes line-up for 2023

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Posthumous Gangsta Boo album to feature Skepta and Run The Jewels

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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Janelle Monáe to play Manchester International Festival 2023

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Berlin’s Home Again announces 65-hour non-stop festival

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Resource list: How to support the people of Ukraine

Across the music industry, artists, labels and platforms are donating funds to help support the people of Ukraine. Here’s a list of resources, with links to charities and organisations

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⌘R: The Best New Music, curated by Crack Magazine

A rolling playlist of the best new music, curated and regularly refreshed by Crack Magazine

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Sunday Mix: Perila

Today’s Sunday Mix is dedicated to “all forms of evaporation” as ambient artist Perila explores the “breathing qualities of sound”

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DJ Nigga Fox takes us through his catalogue in a new playlist

Featuring a selection of tracks from the Príncipe Discos artist’s own repertoire

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Salamanda

The Seoul-based duo pack joy and excitement into their club-driven Crack Mix

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Usher’s Confessions is a masterclass in storytelling

On this era-defining opus, Usher exploited the media’s obsession with his private life to create an R&B classic that kept everyone guessing

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Gal Wine: The Secret History of Sistermatic

In the mid-80s, Black lesbians in Britain were isolated – shut out from both white lesbian culture and Black women’s spaces. Sick of it all, two women took matters into their own hands and created a pioneering space for affirmation, refuge… and maximum fun

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Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) review

‘Praise a Lord…’ is ultimately Yves Tumor’s take on pop – a deliciously compressed offering harnessing their irrepressible energy; 12 infectious tracks that leave you wanting more

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100 gecs: 10,000 gecs review

There’s nothing you can do, upon listening to ‘10,000 gecs’, but surrender to having just as much fun as Dylan Brady and Laura Les are

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Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
100 gecs
10,000 gecs
Fever Ray
Radical Romantics
Kelela
Raven
Various Artists
A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back
Special Interest
Endure
Theo Parrish
DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward
Shygirl
Nymph
Slipknot
The End, So Far
The Comet Is Coming
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin
Ali
Rina Sawayama
Hold the Girl
Crack Cloud
Tough Baby
Jockstrap
I Love You Jennifer B
George Riley
Running in Waves
Sudan Archives
Natural Brown Prom Queen
Sarah Davachi
Two Sisters
Aitch
Close to Home
Danger Mouse & Black Thought
Cheat Codes
KOKOROKO
Could We Be More
Bartees Strange
Farm to Table
of Montreal
Freewave Lucifer fck
Steve Lacy
Gemini Rights
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Hellfire
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Authentically Plastic

“Dirty, greasy, hard bangers from the outer edges of dance music”

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Iranian music by women: Mixed by Nesa Azadikhah & AIDA

A specialist mix spotlighting ambient and experimental to jazz, rock, and electronic music from Iranian artists Nesa Azadikhah and AIDA

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Woman, Life, Freedom: Nesa Azadikhah and AIDA on their new compilation, protest and raising awareness through music

An interview with the artists behind the charity compilation ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’

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Rye Lane: Raine Allen-Miller in conversation with Vivian Oparah

Raine Allen-Miller’s debut feature, ‘Rye Lane’, follows a budding romance across one chaotic night in Peckham. Here, Allen-Miller and Rye Lane’s luminous lead, Vivian Oparah, discuss the rare magic of their shared home

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Morning Practice: Mixed by DJ Gigola

Start your day on a mindful note with a morning practice mix from Berlin’s DJ Gigola

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Popcaan is setting the gold standard

Always positive. Always moving. Blockbuster hitmaker Popcaan has one objective – to keep pushing dancehall forward. For the March issue cover story, Tshepo Mokoena learns how

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Sunday Mix: Matthewdavid

The influential Los Angeles producer turns to friends and the Leaving Records community on this Sunday Mix crafted with relaxation and tranquillity in mind

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Gangsta Boo: Mixed by clipping.

Los Angeles rap outfit clipping. celebrate Memphis icon Gangsta Boo with a tribute mix built from the late rapper’s catalogue

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KI/KI

90 unrelenting minutes of hair-raising trance, techno and more from Amsterdam-based DJ, producer and Slash label boss KI/KI

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Listen to an otherworldly, spectral playlist from mui zyu

Featuring tracks from Lingua Ignota, Mica Levi, Lucinda Chua, David Lynch, Lucrecia Dalt and more

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TAAHLIAH

An ecstatic, edits-filled mix for the weekend from the Glasgow artist

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Live from Opera Festival: Cheval & Davo

Opera Festival’s own Cheval and Davo step out with a warm and blissed-out mix of downtempo electro cuts, techno and rolling house that has us dreaming of balmy summer’s dancefloors

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Live from Opera Festival: Blatta

The Sicilian producer turns to old-skool influences in this rambunctious set captured at last year’s Opera Festival

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Live from Opera Festival: NZIRIA

Recorded at last summer’s Opera Festival, this set from Italian artist NZIRIA journeys from fractured pop edits and celestial experimentalism into euphoric trance and operatic gabber

  • Long Reads

Listen to Alewya’s playlist of inspiring songs for travelling

Featuring music from Madlib, Radiohead, Ishmael Ensemble, Cat Power and more

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Live from the Reflections tour: SHERELLE & I. JORDAN

SHERELLE, I. JORDAN and FOLD. Need we say more?

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Kate NV is bridging the past and the future

Recorded in 2019, the latest album from Kate NV is a poignant, joy-filled memento of another, more optimistic time

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Sunday Mix: Nyokabi Kariũki

For our Sunday series, composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki leads us on an “adventure in the way acoustic instruments, including the voice, find themselves in electronic spaces”

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