Music

Dropped from the psychic landscape of British pop and undetected by the radar of retromania, where did these diverse communities go?

What would the NSA’s massive repositories of data sound like if a composer of electronic and computer music had access to them?

The global spread of Chicago footwork

Author Helene Hegemann recalls dancing with Hamburg-based musician Malakoff Kowalski

Jennifer Higgie interviews the artist at his Paris studio

A brief history of unique singing techniques

50 years of Van Dyke Parks

Über Michaela Meliáns neues Album Monaco und die Debütsingle des Düsseldorfer Disco-Projekts Ex Versions

Why pop music craves art’s pieties and licensed intellectualism and art lusts after music’s broader cultural authenticity

For this regular series in frieze d/e, Berlin-based organist Cameron Carpenter discusses his affinities to glam

A growing number of filmmakers, musicians and visual artists have begun to revisit the rave and jungle ecologies of the early 1990s

The texture of Rosenfeld’s work is woven from often seemingly disparate times, places and registers of culture

Motion-capture choreography, street fights, Looney Tunes and ‘hybrid cinema’

An interview with the prolific musician and artist

From The Jazz Singer to Nick Cave

The uniquely queer history of Matmos is a sprawling carnival with perverse interludes, bizarre objects and guest appearances

The monumental frequencies of Eleh

From retro to repro, and beyond

The first mainstream R&B star to come out instead of remaining a question mark has initiated an honest discussion, but there is still some distance to go

The self-proclaimed ‘purveyors of sinister whimsy to the wretched’ are admirable, not only for a staggering level of productivity, but for being so reliably unpredictable