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Album Review: 700 Bliss – Nothing To Declare

Jasper WIllems·June 6, 2022
Nothing To Declare, the Hyperdub-released debut LP of 700 Bliss, strikes as an impact event. From the relics...
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700 Bliss summon a house party catharsis with “Bless Grips”

Jasper WIllems·May 5, 2022
The third and final preview of 700 Bliss‘s upcoming Hyperdub debut LP Nothing To Declare – out May...
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700 Bliss and Muqata’a enshrine a champion on “Candace Parker”

Jasper WIllems·April 6, 2022
Candace Parker is one of the greatest players to ever touch a basketball, and 700 Bliss – the...
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700 Bliss blast Lafawndah-featured single “Totally Spies”, announce debut album

Jasper WIllems·March 17, 2022
700 Bliss is the incandescent electronic project of founders Moor Mother and DJ Haram, pushing underground club music...
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A Smaller World: Le Guess Who? 2025 Reviewed

Jasper WIllems·November 21, 2025
Beats Per Minute’s Jasper Willems once again travelled to Utrecht to celebrate sound in all its dazzling manifestations....
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Festival Review: Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival stays weird and wonderful and wholly necessary

Joshua Pickard·April 4, 2023
Big Ears still feels like a secret, a hidden treasure nestled in The Marble City. Gathering together artists...
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Moor Mother entrances as she traipses through the stylish “Woody Shaw”, announces new album

Rob H·June 8, 2022
Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother is on a creative tear. In 2021 she delivered a blistering solo album...
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John Wohlmacher, Rob Hakimian, Ethan Reis, John Amen, Ray Finlayson and Steve Forstneger·December 21, 2025
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Album Review: Ethel Cain – Perverts

John Wohlmacher·January 13, 2025
He removes his penis from his clothes and his clothes from his body and he slides it, hard...
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