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Exploring The Japanese Avant Garde
“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down...” Japan is a title-fight of contradictions. In the blue corner we find a feudal, island psyche that paints Japan as one of the most collectivist and...
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Next Wave #626: OOFJ
The OST to your sexy nightmares...Despite inhabiting the hills of East LA, where palm trees line sunset boulevards, OOFJ opt to live in darkness. "We call our house 'the bunker', and let no light in...
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Playlist: Dusky Pick Hidden Gems
Ahead of their Lost and Found set...Launched by Annie Mac, Lost & Found is a new festival aiming to bring you the unexpected.Taking place on Malta between April 3rd – 5th, the bill ripples with new...
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Clash DJ Mix - SUNS
A diverse and oft-inspiring collection...Love can crop up in the most unlikely of places.SUNS essentially make pop music, albeit pop music filtered through a prism constructed courtesy of a lifetime...
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Playlist: Disciples
Tracks they would take to a desert island...Disciples are a fresh voice for British music.A London based trio, the group combine vocalists with producers, fusing styles, genres in the process.New...
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Premiere: The Slow Show - 'White Water'
Stream their new album in its entirety...The Slow Show have a gentle, intriguing charm, one that takes time to get under your skin but – when it does – it tends to stay there.Based in Manchester, the...
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Good Trip, Bad Trip: Moon Duo
No, not that kind of trip...Moon Duo are a group in near perpetual motion, a tumultuous psychedelic force who match lengthy, lung-bursting tours with breathless spells in the studio.So being forced to...
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Their Library: Will Butler
Arcade Fire mainstay reveals his literary influences...When Arcade Fire began to formulate as an actual, proper band, Win Butler knew he had to get his brother involved.With wide ranging interests – a...
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Gallery: Unseen Fotheringay Imagery
As unreleased music enters the public domain...The closing weeks of 1969 saw Fairport Convention ready a radical new album for release.'Liege & Leaf' re-wrote the folk songbook, with the band...
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Premiere: Sacred Paws - 'Six Songs' EP
Charming, buoyant, affecting newcomers...Sacred Paws are almost immediately infectious, a whirr of energy which blends high-life rhythms to skittish guitar lines, dervish drumming and sighing,...
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Krystal Klear, Yasmin Review The Singles
Ft. Calvin Harris, Florrie, Interpol, The Vaccines...Each week Clash runs a Singles Column, inviting guest artists to rate and slate the latest releases.Krystal Klear and Yasmin have been working...
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Request Line: Skream Interviewed
UK garage, disco, dubstep and the future...Skream is a busy man. The ever-industrious DJ and producer maintains a global schedule, one that can take him from country to country, club to club in a blur...
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Clash DJ Mix - Lowtec
Experimental yet playful selection...Lowtec has become associated with a certain type of approach, one that favours quality over quantity, the execution of ideals over simply churning out new tracks...
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Next Wave #627: Zella Day
Glamorous pop perfectionist with a smalltown feel...Zella Day may well be hot property in the pop world but the American artist remains a small town girl at heart. Recently playing an intimate London...
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Gallery: Until The Ribbon Breaks
Behind the scenes at their London show...Until The Ribbon Breaks started as a solo project, before quickly gathering like minds.Moody, atmospheric pop music delivered with an electronic flavour, the...
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Next Wave #628: Hooton Tennis Club
Unkempt, unfinished and unmistakeable...Everything you hear is true.On first listen, Hooton Tennis Club's new single – their first, proper, single – 'Jasper' is a mesh of hazy guitars, sighing vocals...
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Premiere: DJ Yoda - 'Breakfast Of Champions'
Golden Era Rap Edition...DJ Yoda has always made his debt to hip hop explicit.Coming of age during the genre's so-called Golden Era, the aspiring turntablist cut his teeth rifling through records from...
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7 Of The Best: Matador Picks Techno Classics
True gems unearthed...Dublin producer Gavin Lynch has always been obsessed with sound.Initially a sound engineer, the Irish artist quickly developed a flair for aural perfection. Driven to explore his...
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Good Trip, Bad Trip: This Is The Kit
National associate reveals the contents of her bookshelf...This Is The Kit– real name Kate Stables – is truly a songwriter's songwriter.Elbow's Guy Garvey is entranced by her work, even arguing that...
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Their Library: Cold War Kids
Literary influences explored...Cold War Kids have slowly, carefully, built up an imposing catalogue.New album 'Hold My Home' is out this week, the band's fifth, and – some would argue – a defining...
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