Ahead of their collaboration at the PAF Olomouc festival, Bianca Scout and Cajm discuss dance, sound and the quest for mysterious rocks near the Isle Of Man

Cajm

Multidisciplinary artist Bianca Scout and producer Cajm share an alchemic ability to conjure spectres from sound. Both use electronics, loops and samples to evoke the edges of consciousness and preternatural memories. Together, they’re working towards an album – the follow-up to Scout’s excellent, haunted 2024 release Pattern Damage – via a performance at the upcoming PAF Olomouc festival in Czechia. “We did a joint performance at [Czech festival] Bučení this summer, and [the PAF performance] is going to be a movement from that towards where the album’s going to end up,” says Cajm. “That performance was…

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Elijah Minnelli

Clams As A Main Meal

Latest from the enimagmatic UK dub producer is awash with sonic curveballs to keep you on your toes

Clams As A Main Meal by Elijah Minnelli

The history of music is full of artists who have cultivated a certain mythos around themselves and their work. Whether it’s Aphex Twin’s legends of buying bank vaults and driving into parked vehicles in an armoured car, or Sun Ra’s cosmic mythology and claims to hail from Saturn – creating and feeding a lore around yourself rarely hurts.

Enter Elijah Minnelli, a UK dub producer with a studied sense of mystery around him and a story about hailing from a fictional locale called Breadminster – or something. When you strip back the…

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…according to our team of experts, that is. Writers Richard Akingbehin, Jaša Bužinel, Chal Ravens and Philip Sherburne join tQ’s own Christian Eede to chart what they consider to be the defining club anthems of the century to this point. Words by Christian Eede

Heaters, belters, tunes, no matter what you call them, the humble dancefloor banger has fed generations of electronic music lovers going back decades. As house and techno have given rise to myriad other forms of rave music – be it drum & bass and jungle, dubstep and grime, breakbeat and electro – these anthems have kept people coming back to clubs and festivals week in, week out, soundtracking revelatory life moments in the process.

With that in mind,…

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KIK

Nightshift

The Portuguese duo deliver unsettling, off-kilter, and percussion heavy tracks on their full-length debut, an album which mesmerises the listener into a trance-like state through primordial drum automation and elementary synths

Nightshift by KIK

It’s rare, but sometimes people working ‘untraditional’ hours can develop circadian rhythm disorders. These afflictions are often a result of the disruption your natural body clock experiences when subverting your sleep schedule, as your body doesn’t know when to wake up or go to sleep.

Portuguese duo KIK, consisting of Jonathan Uliel Saldanha and João Pais Filipe, will most definitely keep you awake and highly strung with their debut album, Nightshift, released on Porto-based label Horror Vector. Like its capitalist counterpart, Nightshift manages to shift the listener’s circadian rhythm….

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Team-up between the legendary minimalist composer and double-bassist with the kickass Baltimore freak rockers feels like a true meeting of minds, finds Levi Dayan

Can you call it a resurgence when it keeps happening over and over again? Every decade or so, seemingly like clockwork, Arnold Dreyblatt comes into contact with a new group of just slightly left-of-the-dial indie rockers who help transmit his deeply infectious strain of minimalist composition to new audiences. It first happened in the 90s, with people like Jim O’Rourke (who has repeatedly said, in his typical self-deprecating manner, that it’s his fault indie bands became interested in minimalism). Then it happened again in the 2010s, when Dreyblatt made perhaps his unlikeliest team-up yet, recording an album…

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In the fiftieth Organic Intelligence, Anu Shukla explores the influence of Bappi Lahiri on Indian music both at home and as an inspiration to British Asian artists including M.I.A.

Draped in his signature gold chains, velvet jacket, and glittering bracelets, Bollywood’s flamboyant disco king Bappi Lahiri would have been basking in the limelight of his 73rd birthday this week. Born in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, the prolific composer who electrified 80s India with his disco-infused anthems died on 15 February 2022, leaving behind a legacy that democratised music by bringing Western beats to Indian streets – sounds previously only accessible to the elite – and reshaped the country’s musical landscape by inspiring new generations of Indian electronic artists. 

Lahiri discovered disco for the…

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Following the publication of his latest book, Lynchian, John Higgs provides ten entry points into the television, movies, short films and TV appearances of David Lynch

It has now been ten months since the death of the American film director David Lynch, and we are still coming to terms with what we’ve lost.

After his death, a spontaneous public shrine appeared around the mascot of Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Burbank, made out of flowers, donuts, cigarettes, cups of coffee, bags of Cheetos and assorted toy owls. It is not usual for spontaneous public shrines to appear after the death of film makers. As revered and respected as the likes of Christopher Nolan or Denis Villeneuve are, no-one expects people to go…

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A concept album that transcended its concept, a stealth mix-CD, global disco, sampledelic exotica, yacht rock by other means: the Australian group’s debut was many things, writes David Bennun – and above all it was, and remains, a joy. This article was first published in 2020

Some things are far too wonderful to be serious. The first album by The Avalanches ranks high among them.

Doing what The Avalanches did on Since I Left You – and have continued to do; their third album in 20 years, We Will Always Love You, came out in December 2020 – is one of those nonchalant high-wire acts whose perils become evident only if it fails. Or to use a more prosaic metaphor: it’s always…

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Listen to a stunning set from this year’s Montreal festival, and hear of encounters with poutine and fluorescent poodles

Regular readers of tQ might remember that our friends at MUTEK helpfully had someone handy with a tape recorder to capture Factory Floor’s comeback set at the 2024 edition of the festival. Well, we’re happy to report that they’ve done done the same again, this time with one of our favourite collaborative duos – James Holden and Wacław Zimpel. The intense, beautiful and burbling set, with modular synths and saxophone dancing in all the bright ecstasy of a winter mountain stream, can be listened to on our Soundcloud below. ” i remember i really enjoyed this one, it was the…

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Scottish singer Hamish Hawk has long been obsessed with the playful lyricism, art and songcraft of the great Ivor Cutler. Writing for tQ, he explains why.

Following the release of my album A Firmer Hand in August 2024, and after the promotional tours, sessions, interviews and sundry other bits and bobs had more or less dried up, my diary was given the briefest of chances to breathe. Mine is rigorously colour-coordinated, as those who know me might expect. As autumn rolled in, the tomato red I use for all the music-y stuff was replaced by sage green, the colour I reserve for socialising (and fun little errands). There had been for some time, however, a uniquely bright swatch a few pages…

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