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Listener As Operator (3)

By Howard Slater 20 November 2012

In its encouragement of a group expression that supports musicians to ‘play beyond themselves’ and to evolve singularities within a shared ‘rese...

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Flexipop

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv 23 December 2010

The introduction of the synthesizer gave PoMo bands the means to replay the history of rock ‘n' roll with the authenticity knob turned down low. In ...

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15 Albums in 15 Minutes, or What Does the Mute Music Column Want?

By Jon Bywater 30 November 2010

In the second installment of his music column, Jon Bywater explores the uncanny overlaps between Facebook 'liking' and music criticism Despite being ...

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No More Poodles II: Bogue versus Vogue

By Ben Watson 1 September 2010

In the second installment of his music column, Ben Watson wages a war of social being against the hip priests of consensus reality Just what it is th...

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Music is the Crime that Contains All Others

By Demetra Kotouza 4 August 2010

Demetra Kotouza plucks rebetiko, music of Greece's dangerous classes, from the stifling assumptions of its detractors and defenders Rebetiko is oft...

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Listener as Operator (2)

By Howard Slater 1 July 2010

  What happens when musicians smash the metronome of developmental time and the prison-house of language?, asks Howard Slater in this month's Mu...

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The Politics of the Soundtrack

By Nina Power 31 March 2010

  When film soundtracks take the form of an iPod on shuffle or a non-stop brass crescendo, do they make alienating cinema more human or alienate...

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Working on a Decaying Dream

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv 21 January 2010

In this month's Mute Music Column, Pil and Galia Kollectiv look at Bruce Springsteen in the context of class disintegration and place him firmly in th...

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Archive Trouble: Collecting and British Punk

By Jon Bywater 26 November 2009

  Punks collecting things other than safety pins and STDs? Jon Bywater looks at the tendency among Punk enthusiasts to compile catalogues and me...

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