Guest Mix: Arpy Brown
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Arpy Brown’s music seeks connection – and finds it: between the dancefloor and pop sensibility, between groove and emotion.
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Bill Callahan live am 18. Juli 2025 in der Berliner Passionskirche
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Sein Bariton flüstert, sein Humor sticht: Bill Callahan spielt Songs zwischen Dunkelheit und Erlösung. Warum jubelt das Publikum gerade bei den neuen Stücken? Und wie passt ein Kreuz über der Bühne zu »Cold Blooded Old Times«?
Adam Wiltzie picks 10 records that shaped, sharpened, and schooled him
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Anyone who listens to a piece involving Adam Wiltzie will come away with a changed understanding of composition and silence. Together with Brian McBride, he formed the duo Stars of the Lid—arguably the most influential ambient project of the modern era. Since the early 1990s, they have shaped the genre like few others. Most recently, Wiltzie released his solo album Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal—another masterpiece.
Carmen Electro live at HHV Records
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Carmen Electro brings genuine emotion to the dancefloor with finely curated vinyl sets. Techno, trance, breakbeat and house – always with heart, always on wax. In May, she played a two-hour set at the HHV Store, spontaneously working in records handed to her by the crowd.
Haim are taking a new path with their latest album, and it’s one you should follow
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A breakup. Always a messy affair in one way or another. With I Quit, the three Haim sisters have made the perfect break-up album precisely because nothing about it is perfect.
Label Watch: Fox & His Friends
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The Zagreb and Rijeka-based Fox & His Friends label has quickly become an institution thanks to its extensive, carefully produced reissues of Yugoslav music—including a wealth of releases that had never been officially released. It puts into context what others consider mere content.
An Introduction to Yugoslav Music History, Part 2: Liberalism and Disintegration
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An Introduction to Yugoslav Music History, Part 1: Music and Market Socialism
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The 50 best Records of the First Half of 2025
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Guest Mix: Rena Volvo
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Records Revisited: The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust (1995)
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Akiko Yano is an Underappreciated Pioneer of Japanese Music
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Library music yesterday and today: between Archive Gold and Algorithm
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Egisto Macchi und die Revolution der Library Music
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Naomi from Nice 2 Be Nice live at HHV Store
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The Depressing Grandeur of Billy Woods
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Cuneiform Tabs help us to forget where we are
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Label Watch: Nø Førmat!
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Surprise Chef on getting in the »bone zone« and rejecting Quincy Jones
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The sounds of Violeta García even make Peacocks sing
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Records Revisited: Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (1975)
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Guest Mix: Abstraxion
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Moor Mother & Lonnie Holley live on May 16, 2025 at the XJAZZ Festival in the Festsaal Kreuzberg
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Ploy picks 10 recent Vinyl Records
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Car Seat Headrest have never been amateurs – and now you can hear it, too
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Between the Iconic and the Unknown: The Legacy of Xmal Deutschland
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Records Revisited: Spoon – Gimme Fiction (2005)
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Emma-Jean Thackray doesn’t fit in, with her huge Baggage of Inspiration
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Stella Zekri live at HHV Store
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How Aya found even more pain – and a way to set it into sound
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