Miscellaneous

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Andean Music: Prog, Hard Rock and Folk from Bolivia

Between psychedelic rock, progressive, Andean folklore and protest song, between 1966 and 1990 Bolivia built one of Latin America's most original and least-known music scenes: 15 essential albums and 25 more to dig deeper tell its story

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Italian Prog in the '90s: 15 albums of the rebirth

Far from the mainstream spotlight, Italian prog found new life in the 1990s within a underground network of independent labels, small rehearsal rooms and stubborn musicians. Fifteen records tell the story of that rebirth.

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Prog from no man's land: 15 albums from the '80s worth revisiting

Too new for the old guard, too old for the new one: 15 often maligned albums, caught between pop turns, synths, new wave and a progressive identity that somehow survived

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Iran - The Golden Age of Persian Pop

Between divas, revolutions and censorship: the rise, suppression and diaspora of pop music in Iran

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Slowcore - An Elegy of Slowness

Built on stretched-out tempos and a minimalist, melancholic language, the slowcore of Codeine, Low & co. emerged as a reaction to the frenzy of alternative rock. More than a genre, an attitude — one capable of shaping indie rock and post-rock

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The Other Synthwave - Twelve Albums to Go Beyond the Meme

Not just nostalgia and presets. Discovering the more hybrid, contemporary side of a language that today dialogues with prog, metal, post-rock and beyond, creating new worlds and imaginaries still taking shape

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Papua New Guinea: Tolai Rock - The Pompeii of the Pacific Played Rock

Rabaul: Tolai rock and the eruption that wiped out Papua New Guinea's music scene

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Todo bajo el sol - The Best Spanish Records of the New Millennium

Fifteen essential albums to discover Spanish music from 2001 to today. From alternative rock to mainstream pop, from flamenco guitars to electronic rhythms

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Electric Tulips - Fifteen Records to Discover Psychedelic Holland

Between beat, psychedelia, garage, baroque pop and blues rock: fifteen records exploring the varied Dutch music scene of the Sixties

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Entechno - Entechno: Greek Art Song

A journey through Greek art song: poetry, people and modernity across sixty essential albums

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Khmer Pop - Khmer Pop: Cambodia's Broken Dream

Phnom Penh in the '60s: the music scene the Khmer Rouge tried to erase

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K-indie and Modern Rock, 1993-2025 - A History of Korean Alternative Music

A guide to Korean alternative music from 1993 to today, through twenty-five essential records

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Zamrock - When Zambia Turned Up the Volume!

Between mines, distortion and a longing for freedom, zamrock was the soundtrack of an urban generation in search of itself

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Pop Kreatif - When Indonesia Discovered Its Own Modern Sound

A five-decade journey through prog, soul, jazz and urban pop: thirty tracks retracing the history of Indonesian pop kreatif

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Broken Beat - A Manual for Impossible Rhythms

With its wildly jagged rhythms that still swing perfectly funky in 4/4, the broken beat revolution born in late-'90s London spread across the world, and laid the groundwork for today's nu jazz flourishing

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Vaporwave 2009-2024 - The Ghosts of a Surreal Nostalgia

An analysis of the first 15 years of the quintessential internet genre, an expression of an ambivalent approach to 80s and 90s pop culture

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No Wave – The Aesthetics of Negation

New York's late-'70s no wave is one of the most direct, authentic, disruptive, far-reaching and multidisciplinary genres in all of rock history — a brief but powerful shockwave that has shown it can still stir back to life today.

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A history of the blues - A journey to the roots of the devil's music

From the Mississippi Delta to the cities of success, we retrace the epic of the great pioneers of the \"devil's music\" — a journey to the roots of the \"blue\" sound that lit the long fuse of 20th-century popular music.

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1977-1982 - The forgotten years of British prog

Forty albums and a playlist to rediscover the paths and transformations of the most overlooked phase in prog's history, right in its homeland

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American minimalism - A slow-motion revolution

The story of the avant-garde movement that broke free of academia to influence a whole generation of pop-rock musicians

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Chicago - Tortoise & co.: from post-rock to jazz

Chicago's post-rock/jazz scene in 35 records, plus an appendix on 2020

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The other Mediterranean - Are we living through the golden age of Medi-jazz?

Middle Eastern and Maghrebi winds in 20 jazz albums from the last decade

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French revolution - French touch in 50 albums

From its early-90s beginnings to today's revival, the key milestones of the movement that revitalized music from across the Alps

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2010-2020 - A guide to nu jazz in 30 records

They grew up on jazz, electronic music and minimalism, and channeled it all into their own sound. Critics tend to snub them, but their blend of cerebral ambition and easy listening defined the decade just gone