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Everyday Activities: Hipco & Liberia’s Cultural Revolution
It’s 6:30 in the morning on a Saturday in Gbarnga, Bong County Liberia, and I awake to someone frantically calling my name. I jump up and scramble out of my room to see James, my Liberian bunk-mate...
View ArticleCluster Mix Series 006: Comma
Comma’s mix for Cluster Mag sounds like sex. With an alien. In a movie. Really, there’s something weirdly cinematic about his choice of bright, colorful synthesizers and space-y drum sounds, like they...
View ArticlePost-Irony and Fatima Al Qadiri’s Genre Specific Xperience
By Jody Graf None of the five tracks that make up Fatima Al Qadiri’s Genre-Specific Xperience, her debut EP recently released on UNO NYC, are stylistically alike. Each interprets a specific genre of...
View Article“My Spaceship is Low on Gas”
The opening bars of Dirty Paraffin’s 2009 mixtape found Okmalumkoolkat rapping over a twitchy remix of the Kraftwerk classic “Trans-Europe Express”—“My spaceship is low on gas / I’m low on cash, got...
View ArticleRequired Reading with Alex Weheliye
Illustration by Jeremy Dabrowski It’s not every day that you find someone tweeting about Ralph Ellison’s record collection, weaponized architectures, and Young Thug remixes in the same week. That’s...
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