Crucial Listening

Post-rave drives, bunk bed fevers, making a happening. The LA-based sound artist discusses three important albums.

Stolen travel, beautiful noise, trips to Planet Autechre. The Warsaw-based artist discusses three important albums.

Computer matrimony, floating outside of time, lounge music for fluorescent light tubes. The Los Angeles-based artist talks about three important albums.

High vibration resonance, nostalgia in dub, ecstatic dancing. The Oakland-based composer discusses three important albums.

Ever-ascending love, walls of bass, deep listening on the Northern line. The London-based composer/experimental turntablist discusses three important compositions.

Blockhead rainbow afghan, improvisational philosophy, biological instruments. The Berlin-based improviser talks about three important albums.

Creation in solitude, human connection, rhythms in collision. The Norwegian composer / singer discusses three important albums.

Unrecognised chaos, underwater grunge, deceptive ambient movements. The Berlin-based musician discusses three important albums.

Playing with earthlings, disrupting linear time, the St Anger challenge. The Washington-based musician discusses three important albums.

Dispatches from space, tuning downward, chasing Coltrane. The Enablers vocalist talks about three important albums.

Concerto storytelling, iso-polyphony, ensembles of weirdos. The Montreal-based violinist picks three important albums.

Psychedelic breakfast, compositional commentary, just intonation autopilot. The Montreal-based composer discusses three important albums.

Post-punk hurled at a wall, intellectual slapstick, the loops of life. The Brooklyn-based composer and author discusses three important albums.

The Wisconsin-based composer/percussionist discusses year-long fixations, psychedelic culture and dramatic minor keys.

The ever-prolific, ever-eclectic English musician discusses Cold War paranoia, modular rock and Bieber vs The Stones.