HAMMERTIME — An Interview with H.A.M.’s Helen Harris

“I would love to see some of the people who are so recognized in the South to be able to make it abroad performing. To bring what they have far away. I think it’ll happen.”

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Cluster Mix 009: Norrit

“A sort of pathetic, pining impression was my goal, with the creepy ambience, the romantic melodic progressions, the sound of a pulse quickening…”

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Yeah, It’s That Big

Can we evolve past the human scale in urban design?

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Sound Clash Resurrection

This week we return to our discussion of Jamaican music to look at the art of sound clash, present and future, and the recent revival ushered in by two landmark events series on the global reggae landscape…

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Madge Madness: Round 1

Let’s have a fashion tournament of wild and restrained competitors. Let’s have brackets, Bro. Cluster Mag: let’s crown someone king of Autumn/Winter 2012. You go get a Pabst now. I’ll wait.

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Life After Vybz

As Vybz’s protégé Popcaan put it in a recent interview, “with no World Boss around [dancehall has] a different flavor.”

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300: LDFD

A lot of these young producer dudes have been flipping southern rap rhythms to great effect, and the moments of sharing initiated at Austin’s SXSW festival seem to have catalyzed this new style into a full-on subgenre.

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Humans are Humans are Humans

Cluster Mag interviews radical sci-fi zinester Maggie Eighteen about what it means to be part machine, whether we spend too much time on the internet, and when exactly sex is going to catch up with technology.

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