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VOGUING: VOGUING AND THE HOUSE BALLROOM SCENE OF NEW YORK CITY 1989-92
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHANTAL REGNAULT, INTRODUCTION BY TIM LAWRENCE
Soul Jazz Records

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An interview with Jenifa Mayanja (RA)

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An interview with Ghostpoet (Time Out Berlin)

spent watching this:

A very rare, in-depth, and illuminating video interview with Doom/VikVaughn/King Geedorah/Zev Love X/etc for the recent Red Bull Music Academy Madrid session.

and spent listening to this:

monsieurJones - 60 minutes of DOOM

A really fun mix, with loads of my personal favourites – “Deep Fried Frenz” and “Pot Holderz” from from Mm.. Food, “All Caps” and “Meat Grinder” from Madvillainy, ”Fall Back/Titty Fat” and the chilling “Bloody Chain” from Venomous Villain, “Anti Matter” from Take Me to Your Leader… so many highlights!

“I consider myself a writer. When I write, I write from different characters, I write through different scenes, different times… I look at it like I’m a fiction writer or someone who writes novels, you’ve got a wide range of characters. It always makes things more eventful. It would be too corny if I was just writing from me. I’ve got a whole slew of characters.”

the illest villain. super villain!

I’ve been intrigued by Kontra-Musik since coming to the label via Jason Fine’s beautiful album Our Music Is A Secret Order in 2008, so I was really pleased to be able to write a profile on them for RA’s Label of The Month feature series.

Read the feature here.

Don’t forget to check the nice & moody Kontra-Musik label mix by Third.

Below are three of my favourite secret K-M treasures.

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Also found here: opening a f’ing excellent disco/boogie/soul mix by Japanese DJ Masashi Nakazawa.

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Stop Making Sense 2011 – RA review

As much as I really really love going to gigs, more often than not I’ll give live recordings and handheld youtube footage a wide berth; outside of a performance setting I simply prefer the recorded music as it was intended to be heard, without the bum notes and nerve-shredding feedback.

My new music crush, Holy Balm, have become a massive exception to that rule, mostly because they’ve only released one sold out 7” and one sold out shared tape in their five year (!) history. From what I can gather online their style has evolved significantly throughout their run, but the collection of live recordings I’ve heard from the last 2/3 years are magnificent: loose, psychedelic, drum-machine-ruined disco and rickety dance music.

Warts n’ all works in Holy Balm’s favour, and this Sydney trio is the closest I’ve come to hometown pride in a good long while.

I’m not sure know what this track is called, but it pops up in the aforementioned live recordings (thanks, Sydney Tapes!) and is best listened to from around the 2min mark and onwards.

Holy Balm
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marchstep?

quite simple & quite lovely