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How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
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P-Funk Sampled: 50 Years of Freeing Minds and Asses
Fifty years ago, in a true-life science-fiction story wilder than anything concocted by an Area…
Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
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Diet Cig’s Stuck Inside Playlist
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Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
It was 2010, and ghosts were everywhere. The previous decade’s electronic innovations were staring down…
Androgyny at Its Best
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The Other Sides of Little Richard
No sentient human needs to be informed about Little Richard’s place in the rock ’n’…
Children of Kraftwerk
When Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter—two denizens of Germany’s musical underground—founded Kraftwerk in 1970, nobody…