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Pardon me, but it’s a ******* masterpiece: Akufen “My Way”
Ambient, glitchy, sexy and hilarious – Alex Mayor going deep on “My Way” by Akufen. …
Beiträge von Alexander Mayor
25 from 2000-2025
Festival report: Monheim Triennale 2025
Monheim Triennale 2025: Captured by art, place and possibility
Walk anywhere around Monheim the town, and you spot festival posters that declare “Monheim Trienna…
Record of the Year – EM GUIDE
Charli XCX “Brat”
Here comes "BRAT". In which Charli XCX appears to have made an album that is so potently post-modern…
Monheim Triennale – a celebration of avant-garde musical experimentation
Monheim Triennale 2022: Let’s set sail for new musical worlds
"But the joy of this thing is the way it takes you back to the fundamentals: of playing, of listenin…
Sparkly LA twosome bring their AOR-tinged meta-pop to London
Magdalena Bay live: fully-featured, total entertainment scenario
Piano prankster Gonzales once memorably opined, “I’m against music.. but for entertainment.” H…
Darren Cullen and the art of satirising a world that won’t stop going to hell
Darren Cullen: Radicalised by the paper round
Satirical artist Darren Cullen talks to Alex Mayor about radicalising ideas in terrible newspapers, …
Edgar Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers” is pop biography at its most joyful
The brothers grin
"You don’t need me to tell you to see "The Sparks Brothers", because if you’ve even bothered to …
Roísín Murphy – Interview
Roísín, the infinitely capable machine
"Microclubbing! C’mon! It’s the future. We have to go back to basics and build it again." Roís…
Betsy Trotwood Tapes II
Parenthesis “The Betsey Gets Me”
"I miss the nightlife, and like so many small music venues, the Betsey Trotwood on the Farringdon Ro…
Kaput's London editor Alexander Mayor remembers the light in dark places
We are the words that move
Somehow, bright empty streets are a good place to remember dark places. “Oh hey! We in!” Door…
'Rather Resplendent Records' – Podcast
The poptastic stereo-sounds of splendid isolation!
And so the good ship United Kingdom, after three bumpy years on the Seas of Brexit, finally sailed o…
U.K. election
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…
As the U.K. goes to the polls for the third time in five years, in its first winter election for nea…
Flow Festival 2016
We don’t spend anytime backstage at our festival, we are there with the audience.”
What started back in 2004 as kind of a private concert organised by Tuomas Kallio and friends for hi…
