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M.I.A. – M.I.7

M.I.A. has always elicited her share of controversy in a way that much like her music cuts across fields or genres or zones and resolutely subverts all expectations. That might involve the trenchant support for the Sri Lankan Tamils which is part of her heritage, her daring evocations of the immigrant experience which suggest a capacity to engage and...

Tracks of the Week 12.01.25

Not since Jerry Seinfeld groggily awoke to witness Tim Whatley rebuttoning his shirt has someone enjoyed such an intimate relationship with their dentist as the one Marianna Maruyama relates here, as the writer and artist who presently resides in The Hague joins forces with the producer Hessel Veldman, whose primary role in the Dutch home-taping network of the eighties...

Tracks of the Week 28.05.22

From Cafe OTO and the Takuroku imprint which served to salvage the experimental shoots and salty minutiae of life under lockdown, now released on vinyl for the first time via bié Records and described as a percussive collage of lo-fi frequencies documenting a journey which never took place, this week Valentina Magaletti reintroduces A Queer Anthology of Drums as...