Music

Warp Records, 2009

Wisin y Yandel, Machete Music/WY Records, 2009

The xx, Young Turks, 2009

Dirty Projectors (Domino, 2009)

Various Artists (Mordant Music, 2009)

Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics (Strut Records, 2009)

Alexander Nut (Rinse, 2009)

The Monks (Light in the Attic, 2009)

Disco balls and the society of the spectacle

Sunn O))) (Southern Lord, 2009)

The highs and lows of ‘Auto-Tune’, the software used in almost every pop song released today

Belbury Poly (Ghost Box, 2009)

Various artists (Tempa, 2009)

Telepathe (V2/Cooperative, 2009)

Antony and the Johnsons (Rough Trade, 2009)

Paavoharju (Fonal, 2008)

(RCA Legacy, 2008)

The best releases of 2008 and the year’s most compelling work in the field of extreme music

How Western pop music is being used as ‘touchless torture’ by the American military

Magazine (Virgin/EMI, 2008)