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labels21 articles

• Ten rare English progressive records
• The records the algorithm won't find for you: Jonny Trunk's story
• Eight albums that made acid jazz
• Hamburger Schule: the school nobody wanted to be enrolled in
• Nine iconic Detroit techno records
• Seven records to understand musique concrète

All 21 articles

studio technique19 articles

• Wire, one rule at a time: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
• Ten tracks that made new jack swing
• In 1979, songs stopped speeding up
• Nine iconic grunge records
• The spring reverb, and the fault nobody could design out
• Ten essential turntablism albums

All 19 articles

rediscoveries12 articles

• Ten Colombian cumbia tracks
• Ten tracks to understand fado
• The records the algorithm won't find for you: Jonny Trunk's story
• Eight records to rediscover from Italian cosmic disco
• Ten Japanese city pop albums
• David Bowie's favourite records for Vanity Fair

All 12 articles

sampling8 articles

• Ten trip hop albums to know
• Clyde Stubblefield and Monday night in Madison
• T.R.O.Y., the horn loop and who found it first
• Madlib, and what he pulled out of the Blue Note vault
• The Amen Break: six seconds The Winstons thought were nothing
• Human Sadness: eleven minutes built on four chords taken from a requiem

All 8 articles

synthesizers3 articles

• Wire, one rule at a time: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
• E2-E4: the hour by Manuel Göttsching that seeded house
• Japanese electronic music in the 1970s: the machines came first

70s17 articles

• Magma: Christian Vander, an invented language, and records released backwards
• Wire, one rule at a time: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
• Ten rare English progressive records
• The spring reverb, and the fault nobody could design out
• Ten albums that define Italian progressive rock
• Ten rare krautrock records

All 17 articles

90s15 articles

• The records the algorithm won't find for you: Jonny Trunk's story
• Eight albums that made acid jazz
• Hamburger Schule: the school nobody wanted to be enrolled in
• Nine iconic Detroit techno records
• Ten albums that define shoegaze
• Ten essential turntablism albums

All 15 articles

80s13 articles

• Ten tracks that made new jack swing
• In 1979, songs stopped speeding up
• Balearic came out of the wrong opening hours
• Eight records to rediscover from Italian cosmic disco
• Nine iconic grunge records
• Ten essential post-punk records

All 13 articles

contemporary12 articles

• The Budos Band's picks, all of them psych-folk
• Yaya Bey only recommends her friends' records, and says why
• Alan Braufman recommends four records, and one isn't on Spotify
• Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill, from Stranger Things to number one
• Sakamoto, the playlist written so he could eat in peace
• The Bug picks ten records: beats, riffs, drones and heavenly voices

All 12 articles

60s6 articles

• Ten Colombian cumbia tracks
• Ten tracks to understand fado
• Seven records to understand musique concrète
• Ten iconic Blue Note records
• The Amen Break: six seconds The Winstons thought were nothing
• Tom Ze, the engineer of Tropicalia rediscovered twenty years later

2000s4 articles

• Confield, when a system writes the rhythm
• Electric Lady, the Soulquarians' three rooms
• David Bowie's favourite records for Vanity Fair
• Madlib, and what he pulled out of the Blue Note vault

USA21 articles

• Ten tracks that made new jack swing
• Nine iconic Detroit techno records
• Nine iconic grunge records
• Ten essential turntablism albums
• Ten iconic Blue Note records
• The Budos Band's picks, all of them psych-folk

All 21 articles

UK16 articles

• Wire, one rule at a time: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
• Ten rare English progressive records
• The records the algorithm won't find for you: Jonny Trunk's story
• Eight albums that made acid jazz
• Ten albums that define shoegaze
• Ten essential post-punk records

All 16 articles

France6 articles

• Magma: Christian Vander, an invented language, and records released backwards
• Seven records to understand musique concrète
• Disco Cubizm, a cassette and a label that did not exist yet
• The French touch sound, machine by machine
• Mohamed Bourouissa, twelve portraits with no image
• Super Discount: Étienne de Crécy and the French touch seen from the control room

Italy6 articles

• Eight records to rediscover from Italian cosmic disco
• Ten albums that define Italian progressive rock
• Napoli Segreta, four records pulled out of flea markets
• Piero Umiliani's Sound Work Shop
• Italo disco: the name came from a warehouse in Germany
• Italian Library Music in the 1970s: Soundtracks for Films Never Made

international5 articles

• Ten tracks to understand fado
• In 1979, songs stopped speeding up
• Balearic came out of the wrong opening hours
• Ethiopiques, the series that put Ethiopian music back in circulation
• Mali's state orchestras and the Rail Band of Bamako

Germany4 articles

• Hamburger Schule: the school nobody wanted to be enrolled in
• Ten rare krautrock records
• The Cold Song: a 1691 aria written for a bass, sung by a countertenor
• E2-E4: the hour by Manuel Göttsching that seeded house

Jamaica3 articles

• The spring reverb, and the fault nobody could design out
• Five rounds: when dub was sold as a duel
• King Tubby and the birth of dub: the mixing desk becomes an instrument

Japan3 articles

• Ten Japanese city pop albums
• Sakamoto, the playlist written so he could eat in peace
• Japanese electronic music in the 1970s: the machines came first

South America3 articles

• Ten Colombian cumbia tracks
• Azymuth: samba doido starts in a house in Laranjeiras
• Tom Ze, the engineer of Tropicalia rediscovered twenty years later