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The basement where the city’s next sound is being taped
Every Thursday, forty people squeeze into a cellar to watch a band record straight to cassette. We spent a night with Les Cassettes Bleues.
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Music
Records, rooms and the people making noise in them.
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Five records we couldn’t stop playing this week
Basement tape-pop, night-bus synths and a brass band in no hurry: the week in records.
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Why the saxophone is suddenly back in the clubs
Once the punchline of every eighties soundtrack, the sax is now the most-booked instrument on the late-night circuit.
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Last night a DJ saved my Tuesday
The after-work club runs from six to ten, closes before the last train, and is full every week.
Interview
Mila Ost hits harder than her records
The drummer behind three of this year’s best albums talks about practice pads, small rooms and why she never uses a click.
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The library that lends out synthesizers like books
Three weeks, no deposit, a library card. Inside the instrument loan scheme with a two-month waiting list.