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Alexander W. Raworth
Alexander W. Raworth

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Hello, I am a freelance music and society writer, editor, and not-so-renowned LP collector based in the North West. Since 2017, I have been editing and contributing to the nu-jazz and electronica zine, The Sound Basement, which features insights into the modern socio-political climate and notations on the developing jazz…

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Jan 31, 2021

Free From The Shackles of Algorithm: Au Revoir, Spotify

Tired of algorithms and tired of life, Spotify has eroded my will to discover new music since it began prioritising quick singles over artist discographies. — After eight or nine years of the streaming giant Spotify taking over my musical selection and informing me of discoveries, I have finally given into personal ethics and fatigue by cancelling my subscription and leaving a partial vow to not look back.

Spotify

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Free From The Shackles of Algorithm: Au Revoir, Spotify
Free From The Shackles of Algorithm: Au Revoir, Spotify
Spotify

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Jun 20, 2019

Nikita Zabelin: The Postmodern Russian Techno Prince

The strangeness and postmodernist ideologies that exist within the Russian DJ and producers music makes him a symbolic reflection of the country’s contemporary electronica music scene. “The Russian Prince of Techno…” Nikita Zabelin leans back in his chair and, proceeding with a short laugh, discusses the topic with a weight…

Russia

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Nikita Zabelin: The Postmodern Russian Techno Prince
Nikita Zabelin: The Postmodern Russian Techno Prince
Russia

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May 16, 2019

The Sound Basement — Issue 02

Released in July 2018, as part of the summer issue of The Sound Basement. Contains pieces on Os Mutantes, Sain Abdullah, Cucina Povera…

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The Sound Basement — Issue 02
The Sound Basement — Issue 02

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Apr 12, 2019

Percolators, Eastern Bloc and the Technics RS-X301

Sometime in the middle of March, my single cup cafetiere, after a long two years of rigorous use and abuse, fell apart. Both its wired mesh and plunger (forgive me, for I am no technical coffee-artiste and do not know the components all that well) broke, and seeing as the…

Music

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Music

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Feb 3, 2019

Szun Waves — Improv & Freedom

It is 5:30 pm at Manchester’s Soup Kitchen — a tiny drop of excrement of a venue situated amongst all of the other tourist attractions of the ‘independent’ area of the city (Northern Quarter), with an equally excremental sound system and, perhaps to no surprise, a mishap in communications brings…

Szun Waves

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Szun Waves — Improv & Freedom
Szun Waves — Improv & Freedom
Szun Waves

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Jan 25, 2019

A Modern Sense of Counterculture

For those who know and acknowledge the idea of a counterculture, then is it worth denying that it doesn’t exist today? Especially when nearly everything is going at such a speed, that it’s almost impossible to predict. Surely, there is a community that has a lot to object to, right…

Politics

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Politics

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Nov 4, 2018

Cucina Povera — Q&A

The highly innovative and experimental Glaswegian artist Maria Rossi, also known as Cucina Povera, released her debut LP, ‘Hilja’, in January earlier this year to a responsive market. A day after performing at Salford’s Sounds From The Other City, she had a brief email conversation with The Sound Basement… So…

Music

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Cucina Povera — Q&A / The Sound Basement / Summer / Issue 02
Cucina Povera — Q&A / The Sound Basement / Summer / Issue 02
Music

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Sep 5, 2018

Arthur Verocai — ‘Encore’

In 1972, Brazil was going through its eighth year of the infamous, but unfamiliar to the common world, Placa Militar — Military Board in English. There was no violent transition to power when Castelo Branco took to the nations Presidential Office, instead, he found himself riding waves of support from…

Music

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Arthur Verocai — ‘Encore’
Arthur Verocai — ‘Encore’
Music

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Sep 5, 2018

The Lafayette Afro Rock Band — ‘Malik’

In essence, nearly everyone in the western hemisphere has heard at least five seconds of The Lafayette Afro Rock Band’s (once upon a time known as ICE) work, though most of those said people wouldn’t know that themselves. Given the sheer popularity of Hip-Hops Public Enemy’s track, ‘Show ’Em Watcha…

Music

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The Lafayette Afro Rock Band — ‘Malik’
The Lafayette Afro Rock Band — ‘Malik’
Music

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Alexander W. Raworth

Alexander W. Raworth

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Music and society writer based in Manchester / Zine Creator @ Knee_Xap / araworth.writer@gmail.com / https://www.patreon.com/user?u=27933642&fan_landing=true

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