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"Perfection" and the ennui of milennial taste
Vincenzo Latronico's Berlin expats are paralysed by algorithmic abundance. Could a fictional Scottish post-punk band show them a better way to live?
Dec 18, 2025
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When club culture sells out to private equity
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Wiping the moistness from music criticism
Jan 31, 2024
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The durian scheme, or what's wrong with "experimental" music
Jul 23, 2024
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What would you play to rescue a dance floor? Eight music journalists cue up the platters that matter
Sep 3, 2025
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When club culture sells out to private equity
Grassroots campaigns against big finance highlight the moral maze in which dance music has lost itself.
May 15, 2025
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Did trance ruin the "special" music of Goa?
A global scene that began in India gave birth to some of dance music's trippiest records—and a few of its worst.
Dec 5, 2024
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The durian scheme, or what's wrong with "experimental" music
What could today's avant-garde learn from a notoriously smelly fruit?
Jul 23, 2024
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Wiping the moistness from music criticism
Music journalism is in crisis, again. Can it be rescued from its wet, deferential present?
Jan 31, 2024
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Surfing the Inglish channel
The sound of public space is getting worse. What's at stake if we decide to ignore it?
Nov 30, 2023
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Oct 17, 2023
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