#What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped

#What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped

At UNSOUND 2024, a stacked lineup of far-flung artists gathered in Krakow to present their diverse interpretations of this year’s theme, NOISE. UNSOUND’s logo projected onto the wall of Kamienna 12. Photo by Michal Murawski.   Before Krakow’s annual UNSOUND festival kicked off on September 29, I sent its featured artists a deceptively simple question:…

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#Dancing with DJ E

#Dancing with DJ E

Chuquimamani-Condori’s latest experiment sounds unlike anything before it. At UNSOUND last week, they conjured the same strange magic behind the decks. Chuquimamani-Condori (aka DJ E). Photo courtesy of UNSOUND.   DJ E shocked the world last year. Self-released without external promotion, E Crampton Chuquimia’s de facto debut as Chuquimamani-Condori spread by digital word of mouth,…

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#The artists of UNSOUND define NOISE

#The artists of UNSOUND define NOISE

Krakow’s UNSOUND festival kicked off on Sunday. In honor of this year’s NOISE theme, we asked its featured artists a deceptively simple question: What the fuck is noise? Image via publicist.   “What the fuck is noise?” asks sound artist and theorist Mattin at the start of his essay “Theses on Noise,” laid out plainly…

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#Discover Blogly: Listen to new music from Chuquimamani-Condori, Hi-C, and more

#Discover Blogly: Listen to new music from Chuquimamani-Condori, Hi-C, and more

Possessed underground rap, revelatory Chilean indie-rock, and blown-out indigenous Andean psychedelia are just some of the projects we can’t stop listening to. Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Chuquimamani-Condori, DJ E DJ E by Chuquimamani-Condori It’s almost prohibitively difficult to make music that sounds wholly original as postmodernism’s…

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