Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Empire of Sounds: Reconstructing the Japanese Pop of the 1980s

The anime Megazone 23, directed and written by Ishiguro Noboru and produced in 1985, can be cited as an example Continue reading →

Taylor Swift and Totalitarianism

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s Continue reading →

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and Continue reading →

Terminal Velocity: The Cultural Logic of the Dance Music Edit

The presence of the edit looms large in today’s UK dance music scene. Also called bootlegs, refixes and reworks, edits Continue reading →

Born in the Lost Future: Bladee and Hauntology

By Lorenzo CirnigliaroTranslated by Alessandro Sbordoni Recently my mother told me that going twenty years back in time, she would Continue reading →

The Philosophy of Jungle and New Breakcore Music: From Rufige Kru to Machine Girl

Through that time machine also known as the Internet, the jungle music of Rufige Kru (AKA Goldie), DJ Crystl, and Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza

Like factories, shopping centres today exist only to efface their omnipresence. After “society as a whole takes the appearance of Continue reading →