Features
03.06.2010, Words by Charlie Jones
Everywhere else #2
- One of the year’s best albums is Ariel’s Pink 4AD debut ‘Before Today’, and the Guardian are streaming the whole thing.
- I can’t really overstate what a tremendous album this is, and FACT’s mix from Ariel Pink from a couple of week’s ago, and it’s really worth listening to.
- The same magazine’s A Month In House And Techno bucks the trend for “month in … “ articles by being readable and interesting. This month, they have a mix from the superlative Altered Natives and look at the output of Horizontal Ground and Frozen Border, in particular the “purist” techno of 19 26 1 18 5/Szare.
- In exciting news about one of our favourite artists, Billboard caught a few minutes with Natasha Khan, talking about the next Bat For Lashes album, due 2011, which may feature Beck.
- The New York Times published a refreshingly straightforward interview with James Murphy.
- The same paper published a rather fascinating article on the rise of ‘scrappy’ music videos. It mentions sex loads more than you’d expect, as well.
- Speaking of videos, one of our favourite Dancehall act, Vybz Cartel, made a video about desert boots, now everyone at Dummy wants a pair of Clarkes.
- A few Dummy favourite have been interviewed by others –
- Caribou by Tiny Mix Tapes,
- Holy Fuck by Music OMH
- Holly Miranda by the Village Voice
- Small Black by the Quietus.
- Here are a couple of fantastic, and educational mixes, self-titled’s mix from Wierd Records, the label behind the terrific Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics compilation, and Mike Paradinas of Planet Mu on Juke/Footwork, a scene we covered a bit last year.
- In other self-titled news, they win our coveted Headline Of The Fortnight for ‘Ikonika, Actress and 6 other artists who make us wish Ecstacy disn’t make us cry’.
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