Articles By Tom Beedham
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Burial Tunes 2011-2019 Published Dec 05, 2019Two-and-a-half-hour compilation Tunes 2011-2019 works its way backwards through the last decade of Burial's output, but like many of the pro...
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Doon Kanda Labyrinth Published Nov 27, 2019Better known as a visual artist who's worked with Björk, Arca and FKA twigs, Jesse Kanda has established himself as a go-to hand behind some...
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Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Rihanna Published Nov 22, 2019With fewer than 14 years in the game, and enough chart clout to hang with the legacy artists she looked up to before entering it, Robyn Fent...
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Everything in Its Right Place: Inside David Psutka's Home Studio Published Nov 18, 2019David Psutka has just delivered a walk-through of all the synths adorning the wall of his Etobicoke, ON studio when things take an abrupt tu...
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Gong Gong Gong Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏 Published Oct 01, 2019It starts with an ending. Simultaneously signalling the end of guitarist Tom Ng's former Hong Kong-based trio Offset:Spectacles and the...
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Meet Gong Gong Gong, the Restless Beijing-Montreal Art-Punk Duo Channelling the Concept of 'Phantom Rhythm' Published Sep 30, 2019After an apologetic preamble about VPNs and time zone differences, Gong Gong Gong bassist Joshua Frank brushes away any half-baked "made in...
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Mt. Rave Fifth World Published Sep 24, 2019Directly recalling avant-garde composer Jon Hassell's fourth world music, an aesthetic he described as "a unified primitive/futuristic sound...
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MattyFest: Wu-Tang Clan / Descendents / Jennifer Castle / METZ Echo Beach, Toronto ON, September 7 Published Sep 08, 2019"This festival's brought to you by the nothingness inside of you." One hand on a mic and the other resting on his stomach, Matty Matheso...
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Pharmakon Devour Published Aug 30, 2019On the fourth full-length from her Pharmakon project, Margaret Chardiet offers an allegory for grief and the self-destructive nature of huma...
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Desert Bloom MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 25 Published Aug 26, 2019Climbing a long set of stairs and riding an elevator further into the sky, at the top of 7 Doigts, the swaying piano experiments of Rachel N...
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Tortues Vapeur MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 25 Published Aug 26, 2019Doors opening just the moment their scheduled performance began, audiences arriving at 7 Doigts followed the sound of curious electroacousti...
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Dandy Jack and the Sniffing Orchestra MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 25 Published Aug 26, 2019Riding magic hour into the sunset, Mutek Chile ambassador Martin Schopf's latest model of the Dandy Jack brand — Dandy Jack and the Sniffing...
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fuse* MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 24 Published Aug 25, 2019According to fuse*'s website, every time their live media opera Dökk begins, a sentimental composition is algorhythmically generated by a st...
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Huerco S. MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 24 Published Aug 25, 2019Huerco S. provided a smouldering ambient set that helped get you centred before making your way to the crowded nightclub. On a stage set...
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Jlin MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 24 Published Aug 25, 2019Slotted between sets from Nicola Cruz and Reggie Watts and John Tejada's Wajatta project, by the time Jlin brought her sophisticated polyrhy...
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Kathy Hinde MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 23 Published Aug 24, 2019Taking an early set in a longer bill of experimental acts at Agora Hydro-Québec, a mass of implements spilled off a table onto the seats bes...
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Loscil MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 23 Published Aug 24, 2019Equivalents, Loscil's just-issued return to Kranky, is a vaporous affair inspired by early 20th century photographer Alfred Stieglitz's seri...
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Veronica Vasicka MTELUS, Montreal QC, August 23 Published Aug 24, 2019After UK techno favourite Blawan was forced to drop off the bill and cancel his headlining performance (citing issues with an electronic vis...
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Ryoichi Kurokawa MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 22 Published Aug 23, 2019Unfolding with elliptical dream logic, the world premiere of Berlin-based Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa's A/V experience subassemblies pr...
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Jan Jelinek MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 22 Published Aug 23, 2019In a live iteration of his SWR2 radio play Zwischen ("between"), Germany-based composer Jan Jelinek routed garbled ums and ahs through his m...