音楽マガジン

Notes: COVER FEATURE is a three-parter on MOONDOG.
Phone interview with him from 1998, some amazing never-before-seen-images, and crucially this series of archival interviews from 1953.

SHANA CLEVELAND
The singer-songwriter / La Luz leader's hand-written/illustrated tour diary chronicles a European tour with her own newborn baby, and it's really unlike anything you've seen or read before.

GAINESVILLE RIOT '88
On tour supporting 'Bug,' the immense DINOSAUR JR'S laconic wall of sound helped to start a riot at their show in a Florida university hall. Thankfully Kevin Arrow was there with slide film in his camera to capture the event. These images have never been seen before.

Notes: Maggot Brain is brought to you by Third Man Records, under the eye of the 'zine wizard Mike McGonigal. Maggot Brain, a full-colour quarterly with heavy cover stock.

Issue 1: Dec/Jan/Feb 2020.

Notes: The new Disco Pogo (issue 6) has 3 incredible covers - either the epic and enigmatic Justice, the spellbinding Kelly Lee Owens or the incomparable Sade.

Inside feast on the incredible story of 808 State, key moments from 30 years of Bugged Out!, Dave Clarke on how he made the Red Series, NY's young upstarts Fcukers, Daptone's Jalen Ngonda, find out where Lemon Jelly are now, delve into The Archive with LFO, check out Lou Hayter's 'Unfamiliar Skin', go deep on Manuel Gottsching, rewind to reader's questions with Richie Hawtin, let Sean Johnston tell you the story of A.L.F.O.S, immerse yourself in Spiritual Jazz, get to know System Olympia and much more.

184 pages of quality music journalism, photography and design in a beautiful magazine with three lovely covers.

Viva acid house!

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Notes: Issue 3 is a heavyweight 220 pages and features Roisin Murphy, Grace Jones, Art of Noise, Boards of Canada, Chris Frantz, Danielle Moore, Decius, Hifi Sean, Jamz Supernova, Leftfield, Luke Solomon, Native Tongues, Ralph Lawson, Twisted Nerve, Underground Resistance and much, much more.

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Notes: Issue 4 is a bumper 200 pages of quality journalism and original photography and features The Chemical Brothers, Romy, Skream, Pet Shop Boys, 90s Chicago House, DJ Paulette, Mr Scruff, Jon Carter, John Carroll Kirby, Alex Kassian, Movulango, Say She She, Church of Sound, Josh Caffe, Sofia Kourtesis, A (New) Balearic Network, On-U Sound, 50 Years of Hip Hop and much more.

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Notes: Founders of seminal 90s title Jockey Slut launch new bi-annual electronic music magazine Disco Pogo.

Following the success of 2020's A Jockey Slut Tribute to Andrew Weatherall book and a successful crowdfunding campaign raising L60k at the end of 2021, the original founders of seminal 90s electronic music magazine Jockey Slut are launching new publication Disco Pogo with the first issue out this month.

"We never had any intention of re-launching Jockey Slut and then events of recent years made us rethink. But the world has changed and so we decided that a new magazine with a new name was best", say Jockey Slut and Disco Pogo founders Paul Benney and John Burgess.

Disco Pogo is a 236-page, heavyweight, twice-yearly magazine featuring new names alongside the best electronic artists and stories from the past 30 years or so with contributions from some of the best music journalists and photographers working today.

The first issue features Gilles Peterson and SHERELLE on its covers, is out May 25th and will be available to buy in the UK, Europe and around the world from good independent record shops, specialist magazine shops, selected newsagents and direct from discopogo.co.

Notes: On the cover: This issue is dedicated to the memory of astral traveling saxophone colossus Pharoah Sanders, with a tremendous evaluation of his most important work by the great music writer Andy Beta as the cover feature, rare images by Leni Sinclair, and a brief remembrance by film director Jeff Feuerzeig.

Columns: Lucy Sante - New column is about her collage practice, which was unknown until recently. Unsurprisingly it's great work; Mimi Lipson - Returns with another advice column filled with warmth, humor, and even advice; Jazz Roundtable - with Ben Jaffe, Sam Cohen, Bekah Flynn, and Makaya McCraven: New Orleans' entire history as refracted through the work of Charlie Gabriel of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, an absolutely deep and important piece; Thinking Fellers - An overview related to new reissues, written by none other than your favorite writer from Bananafish; Some Churches - Amazing images of small churches, rural and urban, from the collection of the Library of Congress.

Also featuring: Mick Collins - Tremendous career-spanning feature on the Gories/Dirtbombs frontman by the great RJ Smith; Lambchop - A great new album for Merge and an expansive theater piece Kathy Lindenmayer goes deep with leader Kurt Wagner; XV - Detroit's new no wave supergroup deconstructs an interview, with musician Adam Taub; Ghost Riders - '60s/70s North American downer psych-pop/ garage 'Coming of Age Garage Ballads,' Glen Morren turns in a lengthy overview; Ernest Hood - A feature on the heralded Pac NW ambient composer, amazing ephemera to choose from courtesy the RVNG peeps; The HI Rhythm Section - Tennie, Charles, and Leroy! An often hilarious feature by Jason Gross from Perfect Sound Forever; Edel Rodriguez - Contemporary Cuban-American graphic artist interviewed by Britt Daniel from Spoon --they've collaborated together; Wednesday Knudsen - An overview of the work of this genius rural Massachusetts-based contemporary zone folk goddess, by Michelle Dove; Alpaca Brothers - In depth feature by Matt Goody (whose new book on Flying Nun's history is a must); Matthew Dickman - The great skater poet and poet/skater, introduced by Alex Behr;¬ Charles Gillam Sr. - Gabe from Desert Island interviews the New Orleans-based music obsessive and folk artist; King Kong - Former Homestead Records honcho Ken Katkin is here with ten trenchant observations on a reunion show by Louisville's finest.

Notes: Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content - art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more - with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. This issue contains pieces on: Bikini Kill, Boris, Endless Boogie, New Kingdom, The Clean, ELO, Archie Shepp, Echo and the Bunnymen, Primal Scream, The Guerilla Girls, Planetary Peace.

ON THE COVER:

Amazing unseen image of Bikini Kill live at CBGB in 1990, by Mike Galinsky, with accompanying lengthy photo essay exploring indie-rock in the early 1990s, including behind-the-scenes, unpublished black-and-white film images of Sonic Youth, Unwound, Mary Timony, Sleepyhead, Half Japanese, and more.

Notes: Disco Pogo is the new, bi-annual, electronic music magazine from the original founders of seminal 90s title Jockey Slut.

Issue 2 is, once again, a chunky 236 pages and features Daniel Avery, I. JORDAN, Ashley Beedle, David Holmes, Donna Summer, Eddie Chacon, Erol Alkan's Trash, Flesh at The Hacienda, Honey Dijon, Hot Chip, Kerry Chandler, Laurent Garnier, Lou Hayter, Paul Woolford, Ron Trent, TSHA, 90s Jungle and much more.

Long live acid house!

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Notes: A year in the making and weighing in at a whopping 144 pages, #SNC100 Vol.1 maintains the Interplanetary Sounds: Ancient To Future vision and unites fresh new features with re-mixed classics from the archive.

Featuring:

NU SKOOL: IG Culture meets Steam Down, Kahil El'Zabar, Shirley Tetteh, Rosie Turton, Ishmael Ensemble and James Brandon Lewis & Thomas Sayers-Ellis.

ARCHIVE: Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Dr John, Terry Callier, Gary Bartz, McCoy Tyner & Fontella Bass.

Label/Imprints: Soul Jazz/Brownwood. Plus: Undercurrents, Charts & Reviews...

- Softback
- 144 pages
- Size 270mm (h) x 210mm (w)
- 3 colour - pantone 877 + pantone319 + black

Notes: Efficient Space publication ENTHUSIASMS revives with Issue #03. 92 pages covering Aotea-roa DIY folk proliferator Maxine Funke, the vocal magick of Cucina Povera, Australian devo-tional jazz mystery Singing Dust, Osaka portal EM Records, unsung dub specialist Sheriff Lin-do and the living practice of e fishpool. View post-punk trailblazers through the lens of Rotter-dam polaroid photographer Peter Graute, while Swiss artist Elise Gagnebin-de Bons exhibits her series of collages purposed for Ghost Riders. The issue also boasts imaginary mixtapes from Gavsborg, Greg Davis and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Mikey Young, Sonic Boom and Troth. Perfect bound and illuminated by designer Steele Bonus.

Notes: Cover art by Detroit-based graphic artist Lucy Cahill depicts Wanda Jackson as an alien because why not; with additional recent works by her inside the issue.

Glasgow's justly beloved Belle & Sebastian, hot on the heels of a US tour and their best record in ages, deliver unto us decades' worth of posters and ephemera, with an interview with Stuart Murdoch on the history of the group's aesthetics. Novelist and longtime friend David Gordon lets us run the full text of his archival talk with celebrated painter and author Duncan Hannah (RIP -- and yes he goes into detail about the Lou Reed incident described in Please Kill Me). Kevin Esquire spent hours with Motown's almost-star from the 1960s and '70s, Christina Carter, and we have unpublished archival images and many amazing anecdotes.

Speaking of Motown, did you know that the son of the great Marxist/Black liberation activist CLR James was in 'mixed race' band Odyssey, who had a record on Motown? We have a great feature on that. Fascinating discussion between guitarist-singer-songriter-innovators Chris Forsyth and Steve Wynn.

There is an amazing excerpt from Ben Berton's new book on Dan Treacy and the TV Personalities, detailing how the first 7" came together and John Peel inadvertently named the band. Nate Carlson goes deep on the Tony Iommi era of Black Sabbath. Why Buffy Saint-Marie matters, now more than ever, by writer and musician Emily Pothast. One of our favorite writers, Sara Jaffe, tells us how her own grandfather wrote the song 'I'm My Own Grandpa'! No, really! That alone is worth admission. Plus -- there's a terrific and long and excellently illustrated feature on the country and experimental steel guitarist Barry Walker Jr by Tom Humphrey.

Our SF Indie Scene Report: 2022 is so well done that it's going to knock your socks off. Plus, Lucy Sante and Mimi Lipson and the tape column and Katie Lass on her soon-to-be classic Hypnopomp LP and the great Jay Ruttenberg on Sessa, whew.

Plus, also of course beautiful images galore, and more besides.

Notes: Modul8 Issue #1 is here!

Modul8 kick off their first issue by looking both locally and globally towards people who are extending what electronic music can be, and what it means to truly explore synthesizers.

Modul8 #1 features interviews with Detroit / Berlin based Dub Monitor, YouTube synth philosopher JAde Wii, Pure Data wrangler Nicky Systems, lofi lover and Plumbutter maestro Kozepz and Make It Up Club legend Stevie Richards.

There's also features on the unfulfilled promise of grooveboxes plus an interview with the director of Lunar Orbit, a full length documentary on The Orb.

And if that's not enough, there are contributions from Todd Barton, Paleman and 303 champion Honeysmack.

All up its 56 pages of utter synth geekery, and it's only available via good old fashioned printed paper.

*Modul8 acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land we live and work on, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

Modul8 pay their respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

Modul8 is produced off-grid and attempts to limit its carbon footprint where possible.

Notes: Our Spring/Summer '25 issue features a deep dive on Madonna's New York nightclub roots and her links with the dancefloor ever since plus a rare interview and photo shoot in LA with DJ Harvey and our third cover is the super cool Marie Davidson.

Plus we have features on Auntie Flo, Pan Amsterdam, Ela Minus, Tryouts, Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, DJ Koze, Andy Bell, Everything Is Recorded, The Sabres of Paradise, The Wild Bunch, Kevin Saunderson, HAAi and lots more.

184 pages of quality music journalism by the world's best music writers plus beautiful photography and design in a glossy print magazine.

*** This magazine has three different covers - we can't guarantee which one you're going to get! ***

Notes: Issue #02 of Enthusiasms, Efficient Space's annual publication, further maps the label's extended universe of contributors and influences across 88 full-colour pages of offline content, featuring extensive conversations with like-minded duos CS + Kreme and Blazer Sound Sys-tem, Melbourne minimal composer Ros Bandt, the master of paranoia-inducing electronics Richard H Kirk and Tel Aviv-based Isophonic musician Roland P. Young. Rarely seen pictori-al spreads find Yolngu cultural warrior and Waak Waak Djungi songman Bobby Bununggurr sharing stories behind his traditional paintings and On-U Sound's dream team of misfits viewed through the lens of label co-founder and in-house photographer Kishi Yamamoto, alongside the collaborative art of Joshua Petherick and Midnite/3AM Spares compiler Lewis Fidock. The publication's fantasy mixtapes also continue with playlists from YL Hooi, Julien Dechery and David Pinhas, Time Is Away, Grace Ferguson and Ivan Liechti. Perfect bound and designed, as always, by Steele Bonus.

Notes: Khruangbin, Bicep and Elkka cover issue 4 of Disco Pogo

Three covers this time with huge features on the transcendental Khruangbin, the phenomenal Bicep and the incredible Elkka.

Plus 25 Years of The Social, How To Run A Record Shop With Phonica, DFA in photos, the pivotal year of 1994, Slam on how they made Positive Education, crate digging with Nightmares on Wax, Krust on where he is now and Richard Norris on has he ever ridden a horse!

Also features on Beat Hotel Ibiza / Bolis Pupul / Charlie Dark / Flowered Up / Julie Pavon / Lindstrom / Kate Bush / Mildlife / Miss Kittin / Optimo / Paranoid London / Pete Blaker / Robert Hood and much more.

204 pages of quality music journalism by the world's best music writers plus beautiful photography and design in a quality print magazine.

*** This magazine has three different covers - we can't guarantee which one you're going to get! ***

Notes: The 24th issue of the New York music magazine focuses on the figure of Sun Ra.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) is an African-American experimental jazz pianist and composer. A prolific artist, he recorded over one-hundred albums with his band, the Sun Ra Arkestra. His work is imprinted with esoteric elements drawn from a personal cosmic philosophy that had a great influence on Afrofuturism.

A quarterly journal founded in 2012 by Nate Wooley, providing in-depth interviews and essays, Sound American starts from a simple desire to open the doors of experimental music to a wider audience. Sound American believes that music is for everyone and should be shared on the most basic human level. Sound American aims to accomplish this by creating a direct intellectual, social, and emotional bridge that links audiences and artists.

Notes: Cover: Unpublished Joe Dilworth photo of My Bloody Valentine, from sessions for their Isn't Anything record!

Cover feature

My Bloody Valentine: Revelatory, unpublished interview excerpts from hours of tapes with Kevin Shields by our editor Mike McGonigal conducted for his 33 1/3 book on Loveless.

Plus a great interview with Joe Dilworth by Mike Galinsky and pages of his photos of London's underground music scenes in the 1980s and '90s, including unseen images of MBV.

Plus also too

* Will Oldham: Great, lengthy conversation with his collaborator and longtime friend Nathan Salsburg, on the occasion of their record of Lungfish covers.

* Harvey Milk: Epic(!), well-illustrated oral history of the pioneering '90s Athens, GA-based doom/ heavy-rock/ experimental/otherwise unclassifiable and influential band.

* Justin Green: New scans of the underground cartoonist's music comics, many originally published in Tower's Pulse magazine. 18 full pages, with text by comics historian John Kelly!

* Home Blitz: Jay Ruttenberg on Princeton's secret weapon of smartypants post-punk.

* Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou: Mississippi Records dips into their archives of the visionary Ethiopian nun/ pianist/ composer to give us unseen images from her home studio and other gems.

* Dougie Bowne: The great Michelle Dove on the prolific NC-based drummer, who's worked with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, the Lounge Lizards, and many more.

Columns:

Lucy Sante/ Tapes/ Adam Taub on WFMU-Hamtramck's beloved polka DJ Stashu, who last weekend got married on the air as a fundraiser./ Record Reviews / Advice Column/ Extinctophonics by Andy Zax/ Film: Romanian screwball Radu Jude, director of Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.

Notes: Record Culture Magazine is a bi-annual publication that focuses on niche music communities around the world and their intersection with the worlds of art, fashion and culture.

Led by in-depth interviews, image portfolios and photography that gives a unique view into homes and studio spaces.

Issue 4:

Featuring Kim Ann Foxman, Suso Saiz, Joe Goddard, Alexis Le-Tan, Jonnine Standish, Keith Haring Party Invites, Ron Morelli, Andee Frost, Paramida, Eddie Ruscha, Phil Mison, Justin Van Der Volgen and Ruggero Pietromarchi.

- 212 pages
- Perfect bound
- Softcover

Notes: Featuring Kenji Takimi, Heidi Lawden, Nicky Siano, Christophe Lemaire, Cale Sexton, Vidal Benjamin, Georgia, Matthew Higgs, Yasmina Dexter, Ivan Berko and Current Wave: Contemporary T-Shirts From the Scene.

248 pages, Perfect bound, Softcover

Notes: 124 page magazine including a wide range of interesting articles on disco, jazz, rap, hip-hop, funk, house, rollerdisco and the graffiti & breakdancing culture.

Furthermore, you will find vintage advertisements and magazine articles mainly from the 1970s to the 1990s.

In this issue, articles:

- Graffiti Rock 40 by Koe Rodriguez
- Sophie Bramly Interview by Patrick Thevenin
- Alexander Robotnik Interview by Oliver Way
- East Village Eye by Pat Vogt
- Vintage Mexican hi-energy/disco sound system posters
- Mizell Brothers' brilliance by Facts On WaxMize;
- Hot Molton Lava by Marcel Vogel

And way more!

Notes: Lately, everything's been weird. The feeling of vulnerability, fragmentation of time, space and memory, lack of solid ground. It's time to listen, improvise, and feel again. For many musicians, it's also been time to return to where they started, come back home, and remember what mattered before they grew up. In our conversations, Lanark Artefax, Lyra Pramuk, Nazar, Hiro Kone, Bill Kouligas, Amnesia Scanner, Farwarmth, Helena Hauff, and Racine review pieces and bits of their memories, values, and intentions with creating music. When you return to where you started and remember the days when the world was big, and you were small, and nothing was impossible, you begin to play again. You free and protect your inner child. You are at home.

The 'coming home' issue is a tribute to many musicians' fragile state of mind in recent months. Conversations with lanark artefax, lyra pramuk, hiro kone, bill kouligas, amnesia scanner, and helena hauff took place in the middle of the lockdown. it felt like an inward slowdown helped each of them stay hopeful and dreamy when everything was coming to pieces, and old structures wouldn't work anymore.

Borshch is a magazine for electronic music on and beyond the dancefloor. founded in berlin in 2017 by mariana berezovska and tiago biscaia, it's a space to provoke open dialogues and challenge established ideas about making, listening, and dancing to music. through physical and digital formats, borshch discusses the artistic, social, and political impact of electronic music on contemporary culture in and outside the club settings. the print edition of the magazine is published biannually.

Please note: magazine cover varies and particular cover cannot not be specified for order.

Notes: The OCCAM Ocean Issue, focuses on the radical musical eco-system of French composer Eliane Radigue's OCCAM Ocean project. In a first for the publication, this issue is built solely around interviews with the performers that have collaborated with Radigue to produce this body of work over the last decade. Contributors include Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson, Rhodri Davies, Catherine Lamb, Julia Eckhardt, Silvia Tarozzi, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Laetitia Sonami, and Frederic Blondy. All interviews were conducted by SA's editor, Nate Wooley, also a performer of Radigue's music. The issue features an opening invocation from Radigue herself, followed by writing on the history and practice of the OCCAM pieces, interviews, and a concluding essay by Wooley on his own experience performing OCCAM X. This special issue concludes with the last of a three-part series of "exquisite corpse" compositions, written especially for SA by inti figgis-vezueta in response to the preceding work of Moor Mother and Amirtha Kidambi.

This issue also comes with a special one-of-a-kind pull-out poster detailing the entire OCCAM Ocean composition in all of its interconnected glory. Designed by Remake Designs, this is a unique graphic perspective on the human web of collaboration that Radigue has created. Pre-orders of SA26 come with a free download of Sound American's False Start conversation with Eliane and clarinetist Carol Robinson.

Eliane Radigue (born 1932 in Paris) is considered one of the most innovative and influential contemporary composers, from her early electronic music through to her acoustic work of the last fifteen years. Influenced by musique concrete and shaped by regular sojourns in the United States, where she discovered analogue synthesisers, her work unfolds an intensity which is at once subtle and monumental. Through her deep reflections on sound and listening, not only her music but also her working methods have come to shape a widely resonating set of new parameters for working with sound as musical material.

Notes: Eight-track compilation in AIFF and 320 MP3 on a metal USB stick, with an accompanying A5 full-colour zine. Zine is also included as a pdf on the USB stick.

The zine features an interview from Discwoman's Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, writing on off-Facebook event organizing from Adwoa Afful, a beautiful cover from collage artist Fenna Fiction, and a guide to recognizing opioid overdoses and administering Naloxone from Liz Singh and Sara Martin in Toronto. It also features a comic from Finnish artist @juicycomics and a poem from Wafa Ktaech.

Notes: Check it out: Maggot Brain #13 is here. There's a slightly new look to the cover, which works so well with that amazing live shot of none other than Prince.

The cover story is a multi-part Prince feature with reprints of rare writings by the great writers Ann Powers, Michael A. Gonzales, and Greil Marcus.

Plus also:

- Mary Lattimore - the great LA-based harpist interviewed by RJ Smith.
- Audrey Golden's Thought I Heard You Speak book on the role of women in Factory Records is celebrated with an interview by Jessica Beard.
- Negativland - amazing huge very very in-depth feature on the whole 'Helter Stupid' debacle - strap on in for this one, by Cory Frye.
- Roussel + Duchamp, illustrated - Philippe Lapierre delivers dozens of real and super-real vignettes of a posthumous relationship, with beautiful pointillistic drawings.
- Stewart Lee by Richard Gehr - an awesome and dare-we-say-deep chat with the world's greatest living standup comedian.
- Katharina Kuhlenkampf drew this terrific comic strip about the delightful Go-Betweens song "Lee Remick."
- Emeralds - Fred Thomas on the much-missed Ann Arbor-based drone explorers.
- High Risk Group by Tim Alborn - the full, fascinating story of the excellent, obscure Boston based 1980s alt-rock group.
- Joshua Gamma - Murat Cem Menguc on the big show the artist curated which explores the relationship between Christian psychedelic aesthetics and American subcultures.

Killer columns: A really sweet one by Lucy Sante, return of the hip-hop column (Paula Perry this time), tape column, reissue column on the 1990s band Moss Icon by Fred Thomas, and Mimi Lipson's excellent advice column, the Korean pop psych great Kim Jung Mi -- and Dorothy Berry on being Black in experimental music spaces.

Notes: Featuring Raphael Top-Secret, Julianna Barwick, Misha Hollenbach, Jacques Renault, Carla Dal Forno, Arthur Russell Invites, Michael Kucyk, Avalon Emerson, Thomas Bullock, Dubby, Marie Davidson and Bell Towers.

198 pages, Perfect bound, Softcover

Issue 5 supplement:

RVNG Intl. Experiments in Design and Collaboration: 2003-2018

72 pages, Saddle stitch, Softcover

Notes: Hot Stuff issue 14:

120 page magazine including a wide range of interesting articles on disco, jazz, rap, hip-hop, funk, house and the graffiti & breakdancing culture. Furthermore, you will find vintage advertisements and magazine articles mainly from the 1970's to the 1990's.

In this issue, articles :
- Blind Buys top 10 by Dave Lee
- Joey Beltram By Oliver Way - EPM Music
- Chilly Q and Kevy Kev Interview By Jason Armitage (DR.J)
- Exploring the History of French Hip Hop Through 80s and 90s Flyers
- IGTimes - It's Serious business sucker Interview With David Schmidlapp By Pat Vogt
- Vintage articles of Kool And The gang and Bootsy Collins.
- The Mystery of Black Belt Jones by Skeme Richards (The Nostalgia King)

Notes: The Velvet Underground- with multiple features on your favorite band, with rare images and cool ephemera throughout, as well as A Guide To The Velvet Underground's Live Tape Stash by Tyler Wilcox. Plus, full length reviews of new reissues of cassette tapes by ur-VU drummer Angus MacLise, and a lengthy appreciation by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Light in the Attic's excellent pre-VU Lou Reed set. Plus features on TV On The Radio, Antietem & Sleepyhead, 12XU Records, Sweeping Promises, Razor Praids, The Sonics, Department Store Santas, and much more.

Notes: #SNC99 - over 130 pages - connects with band-leaders Cassie Kinoshi (SEED Ensemble), Tenderlonious (22a), Femi Koleoso (Ezra Collective) and keys whiz Joe Armon-Jones.

Also in the mix are a host of spirited individuals like Midori Takada, Nabihah Iqbal, Nat Birchall and Ben LeMar Gay. The London- Lagos-Accra connection is explored alongside Durban's Qgom scene.

On the indie imprint tip there's Gondwana, Jazz re:freshed, Detroit Love and On the Corner.

For the crate diggers there's Motown's Black Forum + nuff reviews. There's no room for complacency when it comes to getting your copy.

Notes: Contents: Elliott Murphy, Bonnie Owens, Jimmie & Vella, Crack the Sky, cheap 70s glam albums, Rosie & the Originals, Bernie Torme, Claudine Longet, dinosaur rock bands go punk, wrestling and rock & roll, Jumpin' Beans & the Moustaches, Blowhole, Barbra Streisand goes experimental, Brubeck goes psych, Village People punk, Mezz Mezzrow, SST Records, and more. Issue No 2 is still available. Issue No 1 is not.

Notes: In sweaty basements and concrete cathedrals, we enter the darkness. We challenge our senses with obscure electronic music and unsettling environments to feel comfortable with our discomfort. Animistic Beliefs, Deena Abdelwahed, Rrose, Lucrecia Dalt, Klein, Alessandro Adriani, and Ziur commit to neither darkness nor light. In the democratic culture of shadows embodied in DIY studios and on stuffy dancefloors, these musicians experiment with our dark sides. In their process, sins, injustice, and disquiet are as human and real as pleasures and joy. Think of entering the dark as an act of coming home, to the cave where the primary source of life is hidden.

Borshch is a magazine for electronic music on and beyond the dancefloor.

Notes: In the pursuit of a sound mind, Borshch 4 explores the power of music to reach the darkest corners of the psyche and drive out an unquiet spirit. Aisha Devi, Object Blue, and Jasss experience the healing capabilities of music and its potential to purge, transform, and enlighten. Marie Davidson confesses about obsessive and destructive behaviors and the role of music in her process. Prequel Tapes reveals a new musical identity after physical trauma. Bergsonist creates sonic weapons to soothe anxieties, while Iron Sight uses distorted sounds as armor for a sensitive nature.

Notes: Together with Jeff Mills, Borshch 3 speculates on the role of music in the technology-driven future. We approach Jeff's collaborators who also see electronic music as an independent art form integral to their craft: poet Jessica Care Moore, actor Akaji Maro, and film diretor Jacqueline Caux. We meet Dasha Rush to explore her ideas envisioned in her Dark Hearts Of Space. Kelly Snook, a planetary scientist and instrument inventor, joins this circle of deep thinkers to discuss our expansion into outer space and propose new scenarios of a hopeful future.

Notes: Borshch 2 discovers precious history lessons on the emergence of electronic music with Gudrun Gut, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Species of Fishes. The issue features ????’s newcomer Volruptus as well as techno titans Steffi, Perc, and Rødhåd. Loke Rahbek of Posh Isolation reveals the story of the punk and noise scene in Copenhagen. The organisers of Berlin Atonal and Varg as the festival’s a guest curator speak about the programming of Berlin’s significant experimental playground. An insider view sheds light on the gradual development of electronic music culture in Kyiv, with presidents and revolutions aside.

Notes: The next electro exploration from the infamous DMX Krew comes in the form of 'Blue Bob', which scours the genre's less bangerific backwaters. The four tracks on this new EP her for Further Electronix centre on everything from the weezy, to the gaseous, to the strange. 'Ambient Fog' does what it says on the tin, working as one of Krew's most minimal cuts to date; its noir synth strings and piquey melodic motifs sound like the soundtrack to a space-age murder mystery, as we try to decipher who killed Zog with what; a laser-blaster? a lightsaber? a photon torpedo? 'Clean The Stylus' and are 'Blue Blob' further sci-fi pleasantries, with icy blue notes and propulsive FM basses gluing it all together.