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45 Years On: OMD’s Architecture & Morality Remembered

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark released one of the Quietus' favourite albums in 1981. John Doran reflects on the warmth of Architecture & Morality and talks to Andy McCluskey A lazy but widespread criticism of the English synth pop scene of the early 80s was that it was soulless or lacking in human warmth. While there certainly were acts who came across as detached or alienated (Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal, John Foxx) if anything, the opposite was generally true. There is an almost baroque level of (exquisitely judged) romantic melodrama to Soft Cell's 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye'; despite Gar

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ROSALÍA dropped a LUX anniversary vinyl box set

The set arrives two days before the album turns one and a week before her Latin Grammys performance.

Gorilla Music · EN

This rumor about Apples anniversary iPhone? We tend to believe it.

Apple's rumored "anniversary iPhone" might not have an uninterrupted display after all.

Mashable · EN

Nintendo Celebrates Zelda's 40th Anniversary With An Exclusive Pin Set (US)

Get it while you can. Timed in with the launch of Ocarina of Time on the Switch 2 this week, Nintendo has released a Zelda 40th Anniversary Pin Set. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Nintendo Life · EN

Funny Games: Aphex Twin’s Richard D. James Album 30 years on

With a manic grin leering from the cover Aphex Twin's fourth was readily incorporated into blather about drill & bass but his best, most cohesive album was neither wacky nor a novelty, says Toby Manning Richard D. James Album by Aphex Twin The year is 1996, the era of Britpop and lads’ mags, of Euro 96 and ‘Three Lions’, the retro complacency of which has seemingly no connection to the restlessly innovative Aphex Twin’s fifth album. Yet the depthless positivity of Cool Britannia didn’t just produce Britpop but ‘comedy is the new rock & roll’, the wipe-clean irony of Chris Evans and the music w

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Air Texture releases two 15th anniversary compilations featuring Octo Octa, Laurel Halo, Oneohtrix Point Never, more

The series brings together remastered material from across the label’s ambient and electronic output

DJ Mag · EN

Gutted, Hashed and Deboned: Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious By Carcass At 35

Keith Kahn-Harris looks back at a landmark release full of surprises and possibilities To push back a genre label is, all too often, a reliably generic move by artists desperately seeking to differentiate themselves from other artists who sound much the same. Occasionally though, pushing back against genre label is a more subversive move, the mark of an artist pushing against anything that would close off their creative development. Such is the case with Carcass. It didn’t take them long at the start of their career to reject the grindcore label, they are currently rebelling against the extrem

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Sacrificial Riffology: Reconsidering Altar by Boris & Sunn O)))

Where do you go, what do you do, after you have created a riff for the ages? For Keith Kahn-Harris, that's the question that Boris & Sunn O)))'s Altar seems to ask By any objective standard, the riff that dominates 'Etna', the opener to the Boris / Sunn O))) collaboration Altar, should be as celebrated as 'Walk', 'Whole Lotta Love' or 'Symptom Of The Universe'. As a song, there is little else to it but the riff – an extended intro that builds and locks into an audaciously simple chord sequence, eventually giving way to a lavishly elongated breakdown into a squall of guitar noise. It's 9 minute

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A Form of Utopianism: Cluster’s Sowiesoso at 50

From avant garde beginnings to ambient endings, Cluster reconfigured rock music as much as Kraftwerk, says Toby Manning. In the late 70s and early 80s, British music took a distinctly European turn, from Bowie’s “Heroes” in 1977 to Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’ in 1981, peaking with Kraftwerk’s ‘The Model’ hitting UK no. 1 the following year. Whether it was the after-effects of the EEC referendum or a growing anti-Americanism in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam, this new Europeanism temporarily sidelined music’s traditional Transatlantic passage for the artier terrain over the Channel. Chart hits like

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