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On mnjm label, techno finds a new voice in the Arab diaspora
It’s just as dark, just as blistering and powerful, but with sharper details, nuanced rhythms. Arabic-speaking techno from mnjm in Berlin reinvigorates the genre by shedding some of its cookie-cutter repetition and making it come alive all over again.
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Sounds Rising: Music from Georgia in days of protests
The Georgian pro-democracy, anti-corruption movement is still in the streets, month after month. Music remains a way to connect those demonstrations with supporters at home and abroad. Tbilisi/Berlin artist Mess)Montage joins as we put together sounds from Georgia (and I write this from soundcheck for a fundraiser tonight).
Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community, imagination
What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel’s reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today.
Paul Schreiber (Tandy, Moog MG-1, Synthesis Technology) remembered
Peter Kirn - March 24, 2025
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Three free spectral synths to try after the new Serum spectral oscillator
Peter Kirn - March 19, 2025
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