Joe Muggs
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- Bio
- Joe writes regularly for FACT, The Wire and Mixmag, specialising in electronic music and the anything-but-grey areas where genres and media dissolve into one another.
Articles by Joe Muggs
The Orb Exclusive: Thomas Fehlmann DJ mix and Alex Paterson interview
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
If anyone in British music still deserves that rinsed-to-death term "maverick" it is Battersea-born "Dr" Alex Paterson. From roadie for postpunk industrialists Killing Joke in the early Eighties, he... Read more... |
CD: Black Sabbath - 13
Sunday, 09 June 2013
The original Black Sabbath were a feat of engineering on a par with a classic Land Rover or an AK47. Everything about them was basic, brutal, unadorned and brilliantly functional – and as such... Read more... |
CD: British Electric Foundation - Music of Quality and Distinction Vol 3: Dark
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
It took nine years between the first and second instalments of this series, and another 22 years to make the third. And that's one of the least strange things about this record. The production team... Read more... |
CD: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Thursday, 16 May 2013
A wise man once said: DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE. It's a simple concept, but it seems so very hard to grasp, even – or especially – in a supposedly media-savvy world. The oddest thing of all is that it... Read more... |
CD: Alison Moyet - the minutes
Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Alison Moyet is not just one of the great voices in pop, she's one of the most likeable figures. A brilliantly no-nonsense character, she consistently skewers music industry pomposity, laughs in the... Read more... |
CD: Friedman & Liebezeit - Secret Rhythms 5
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
It's pretty impressive that at 74 years old, the drummer Jaki Liebezeit should still be one of the most vital musicians on the planet. Maybe not all that surprising, though. From the moment in 1968... Read more... |
Karl Hyde, Union Chapel Islington
Friday, 26 April 2013
I have to admit I was That Hipster with Underworld: loved them circa 1991, stopped being intensely interested around the first album, diverged almost completely after “Born Slippy” went supernova... Read more... |
Exclusive download: Mice Parade
Monday, 15 April 2013
We're extremely happy to be able to offer a free download of this live track by New York collective Mice Parade to mark the release of their seventh album, Candela, today. In its six minutes, this... Read more... |
10 Questions for Internet Broadcaster Jamal Edwards
Monday, 15 April 2013
In six and a half years of existence, SBTV has redefined what youth culture broadcasting can be. It began as nothing more than a YouTube channel where Jamal Edwards would put up videos he had filmed... Read more... |
CD: Morris Cowan - Six Degrees
Monday, 15 April 2013
Some 20 years ago, a series of albums called Artificial Intelligence on WARP Records aimed to promote techno as home-listening music. They made up a frequently sublime collection, but unfortunately... Read more... |
CD: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
On hearing the opening track of this album, a friend said “I didn't expect to be listening to new albums of the YYYs 10 years on!” And this is kind of understandable: of all the new rock bands of the... Read more... |
CD: James Blake - Overgrown
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
There's an easy answer to James Blake's naysayers (and there are a lot of them): you're not listening loud enough. I made the mistake myself. Even knowing his early, brilliant electronic works, I was... Read more... |
CD: Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The portents were good. The single “Heaven” emerged with all the melodrama and crypto-religiosity hardcore Depeche Mode fans have loved – Dave Gahan hitting some notes that suggested he's spotted... Read more... |
CD: Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience
Saturday, 16 March 2013
You really don't need the context on this, do you? Event album, comeback, cheesy title, blah blah – it's all there splattered all over the internet if you really want it. I'll just cut to the chase... Read more... |
Four Tet & Fiium Shaark, Heaven
Friday, 01 March 2013
Walking into the auditorium of a packed Heaven last night, we were instantly treated to the sensation of having our bodies invaded by thousands of infinitely complex machine insects. It's rare that a... Read more... |
The Dark Side of the Moon: Dub Side of the Moon
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
There's a lot about stoner culture that smacks of earnestness, and The Dark Side of the Moon has been at the heart of a good deal of that. The number of long, dreary, late-night conversations that... Read more... |
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How to contact Joe Muggs
- http://twitter.com/#!/Joemuggs
- personal website
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