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Working on a Decaying Dream

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv 21 January 2010

In this month's Mute Music Column, Pil and Galia Kollectiv look at Bruce Springsteen in the context of class disintegration and place him firmly in th...

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Archive Trouble: Collecting and British Punk

By Jon Bywater 26 November 2009

  Punks collecting things other than safety pins and STDs? Jon Bywater looks at the tendency among Punk enthusiasts to compile catalogues and me...

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Listener as Operator

By Howard Slater 14 October 2009

The 'compositional improvising' of jazz, from big band to free to AACM, is, in its shared precarity, 'tellingly inarticulate' - writes Howard Slater i...

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No More Poodles (Dumitrescu/Avram: Rebirth of Avant Garde)

By Ben Watson 3 September 2009

  Kicking off our collectively composed music column, Ben Watson explodes the integrity of cookie-cutter modern music, dynamites the shameless p...

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Listener As Operator (3)

By Howard Slater 20 November 2012

In its encouragement of a group expression that supports musicians to ‘play beyond themselves’ and to evolve singularities within a shared ‘rese...

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Flexipop

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv 23 December 2010

The introduction of the synthesizer gave PoMo bands the means to replay the history of rock ‘n' roll with the authenticity knob turned down low. In ...

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