Genesis Owusu and The Global Collage of Genres
One of the most promising new talents around demonstrates vividly how artists find their own identities in the internationalist flux of pop styles.
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A commentary on the latest trends in music, from the newest tracks to up-and-coming artistes, as well as unique and lesser-known acts.
Drifting Down Rye Lane: FYI Chris, and Why Locality Still Matters
Two staff members from one of London’s best-loved record stores have made an album that connects a tight knit and vital scene, and captures the sound of South London’s woozy electronics.
Reappraising The KLF on the Event of Their Return
One of the strangest acts of all time has risen from the dead in ghostly streaming form. It’s time to realise that The KLF were incredible musicians as much as they were pranksters.
Enter the Strange and Alarming Dream World of Henry Darger with OUTSIDER
Two musicians well experienced in the left-field corners of the music industry have come together to explore and expand an outsider artist’s imagination into a living circus of the mind.
Finding the Force: Jon Savage and the Birth of Electronic Dance
With a new compilation, the historian and curator Jon Savage captures the moment when electronic sounds entered the popular consciousness.
Mixtape’s Greatest-Sounding Records of 2020 – Part IV
São Paulo introspection, UK-Polish-Pakistani improvisation, the global club underground and so much more in our final farewell to 2020.
Mixtape’s Greatest-Sounding Records of 2020 – Part III
Two heroes of Detroit dance music, two kinds of ambient healing, several flavours of electro-pop and much more in our continuing end-of-year roundup.
Mixtape’s Greatest-Sounding Records of 2020 – Part II
From ambient dreams to devastating rave power, jùjú rap grooves to experimental pop, here are 12 more records to lose yourself in.
Explore EVA808’s World Of Bass
As the Icelandic dubstep-grime-hip-hop producer prepares to release her debut album, we find out about the influences that helped make her sound.
Mixtape’s Greatest-Sounding Records of 2020
We’re taking a different approach to end-of-year roundups: settle in for some close listening, because we’ve collected the most exquisite-sounding recordings from this oddest of years.