It’s based on a series of shows that the duo played through Europe across two weeks in 2023

Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke are releasing a new collaborative album through Drag City.

Titled Pareidolia, the record is split into four pieces and is based on material that the duo played during a two-week period of shows through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland in 2023. It marks the fifth collaborative project between Ishibashi and O’Rourke.

The aforementioned 2023 shows marked the first time both artists has played together outside Japan. Ishibashi played flute, while both also played harmonica intermittently, and routed sounds from their laptops back to hard drives to provide further material with for the following gig. “Pareidolia’s final mix is one further…

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The widely-respected Scottish DJ shared news of his diagnosis earlier today

Optimo’s JD Twitch, real name Keith McIvor, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.

The much-loved Scottish DJ, who forms one-half of the DJ duo Optimo (Espacio), shared details of his diagnosis on Instagram earlier today (July 3), adding that he will be prioritising spending time with loved ones going forward.

“I know this may be difficult news to receive through social media, and I’m sorry if it feels sudden or impersonal,” McIvor’s Instagram post read. “My symptoms weren’t immediately diagnosed, and my health declined very quickly over just a few weeks. Because of how rapidly everything progressed, I haven’t been able to share this news personally…

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The festival takes place in late August

Supersonic Festival has added a third wave of acts to the bill for its 2025 edition.

Among the latest additions is The Bug, who will perform alongside vocalist Warrior Queen. Speaking about the appearance, the artist, real name Kevin Richard Martin, said: “Supersonic certainly brings back amazing memories, as Warrior and I played the inaugural festival in 2003 (alongside Coil and LCD Soundsystem). We have zero intention of mellowing. Fire will be in the house, fully. We are psyched!”

Also added to the lineup are Hang Linton, Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, Jennifer Reid, Dawn Terry, Calliope and Elspeth Anne.

They join the previously announced likes of Richard Dawson, Backxwash, aya, Divide And Dissolve, Moin, Penelope Trappes and Aunty Rayzor…

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They’ve also shared a new production from the mix, titled ‘Mothertime’

Photo by Kasia Zacharko

Call Super is releasing a one-off mix CD for Dekmantel’s in-house label.

Marking the first mix compilation release via the Dutch label, A Rhythm Protects One spans 12 unreleased tracks and seeks to revive the golden era of the mix CD format. It features new cuts by Call Super and their Ondo Fudd alias, as well as several unknown producers who may or may not be other monikers of the UK artist.

“There is a line in the Malgo & KVS track that goes, ‘I must be the place where the storm catches breath,'” Call Super, real name Joseph Richmond Seaton, said in a statement. “The line captures that…

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It will be released via his On U-Sound label next month

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Adrian Sherwood has shared details of his fourth solo studio album, The Collapse Of Everything.

Marking the dub pioneer’s first solo full-length release in 13 years, the 10-track record crosses genre boundaries and fuses together a wide range of influences from Sherwood’s life as a producer and music listener, according to a press release.

In a statement, he said: “Recently I lost two great friends, Mark Stewart and Keith LeBlanc, and started working with the idea of doing another solo record, because it’s been a long time since Survival & Resistance. Mark had written a song, and part of a lyric was hidden in the song about ‘The…

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Part Chimp and more for London do

Our friends at Baba Yaga’s Hut have a big all-dayer gig coming up later this month. Headlined by yesterday’s stars of the Strange World Of…, Part Chimp, it takes place at the No90 venue in Hackney Wick, with music spread across their floating and indoor venues. Also on the bill are all sorts of other artists, including a heap of Quietus favourites – Michael, Rainbow Grave, Barbican Estate, Spirit Data, Sly & the Family Drone, Moist Crevice, Haress and Dawn Terry. You can buy tickets here

Anthony Chalmers of Baba Yaga’s Hut told us more: “I had for years wanted to do something at Number 90 in Hackney Wick that took in their two excellent live…

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Whether working in Blaxploitation, horror or sc-fi, auteur Larry Cohen was often battling against constraints created by money, time and his own skillset, says Mat Colegate, but ultimately he trained a satirical eye on America few could match

Larry Cohen’s cameo in Spies Like Us

If you were of school age in the early 90s and often yourself sat in front of the telly in that weird interval between programming for kids and the news – disinterestedly absorbing everything from repeats of The Time Tunnel to Normski presenting Dance Energy – then chances are your first exposure to the work of the director and writer responsible for legendary horror and science fiction films like Q: The Winged Serpent, God Told Me To,…

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Born out of the febrile Basque Country experimental music community and infused with the weirdness of the early 00s New York noise scene, the former solo project of Bilbao’s Alvaro Matilla (now joined by Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini, and multi-instrumentalist, serial collaborator Mattin) sounds wild and untamed and bursting with possibility

Al Karpenter by Gabriele at Cafe Oto in 24/02/2024

Recently, Carlos Giffoni posted on social media that, as he was opening old boxes and finding treasures from the early 2000s, he started playing with the idea of writing a book about those crazy times in New York City and what they meant to him. The Venezuelan artist and experimental musician found a vibrant scene of noisy, free and wild sound experimentation when he…

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The Lijadu Sisters

Danger

Sunshine cynicism from mid-70s Nigeria, The Lijadu Sisters deliver sharp political commentary in a soulful voice

Danger by The Lijadu Sisters

Nigeria in 1976 was facing the slow unravelling of post-independence illusions, revealing a murkier, more compromised reality. For women, especially, it was a time of systematic marginalisation: sidelined in politics, silenced in public discourse, and largely invisible in the music industry. Danger, made in Lagos during this period, wasn’t interested in contributing to the official soundtrack of optimism. The Lijadu Sisters used beauty as a delivery system for harder truths, like alternative broadcasters operating outside sanctioned discourse.

Taiwo and Kehinde weren’t making ‘world music’ or any other category designed to contain them. They were cosmopolitan women who drew freely from…

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Ahead of a headline slot at the Baba Yaga’s Hut 19th Anniversary Party, Part Chimpers past and present speak to Stevie Chick about an illustrious career in higher-function-shattering rock music

Part Chimp play with Rainbow Grave, Dawn Terry, Haress & more on 26 July

As David St Hubbins opined, there’s such a fine line between clever and stupid. Part Chimp have gleefully stomped that line into dust for a quarter of a century. “I say quite a lot in rehearsals, ‘Can we make it more stupid?’,” grins Tim Cedar, Chimp singer and guitarist. “I’ll say, ‘Jon, just do something a bit more stupid’. I sometimes think Part Chimp is stupid music made by very clever people,” he adds, though it’s absolutely clear he…

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