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Tindersticks veteran David Boulter takes us behind the conceptual childhood seaside scenes of his debut solo album on Clay Pipe Music
Sharron Kraus talks to Gareth Thompson about her Preternatural Investigations podcast and finding ways into a place’s magic and mystery
Joe Muggs talks to Stewart Gardiner about his essential collection of extended interviews on soundsystem culture
New Zealand’s Vanessa Worm discusses self-expression, Scottish vibes and her LP of existential disco punk for Optimo Music
Ian Preece tells all on Listening to the Wind, his hefty yet accessible book profiling intrepid independent labels from across the globe
To mark the release of new LP Adlestrop, the real Gilroy Mere talks to Stewart Gardiner about Clay Pipe Music, the Beeching Report and avoiding nostalgia
Laurence Pike talks to Gareth Thompson about the hellish wildfires that inspired his new album Prophecy for the Leaf Label
pq of Nihiloxica discusses debut LP Kaloli and the group’s unique sound, a mix of the hypnotic repetition of Bugandan drumming with abstract techno
A regular visitor to Concrete Islands, Preston’s Stephen James Buckley is finally brought in for questioning, at the apex of a very productive year
Drum & bass pioneer DJ Storm talks to Stewart Gardiner about the reissue of the seminal DJ-Kicks: Kemistry & Storm mix on !K7
Matt Anniss talks to Stewart Gardiner about Join the Future, his essential book on British dance music’s seminal but unsung sound: Bleep & Bass
Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out at the end of January and discusses bringing hip hop into the world of Concrete Islands
Colin Morrison lowers the Castles in Space drawbridge to explain all on the past, present and future of his burgeoning outlet for electronic explorers
These are the fifty albums from 2019 that have meant the most to the world of Concrete Islands, along with our favourite archival releases of the year
Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out under the Concrete Islands banner this month and unearths some ancient evidence of previous DJ activity
The ever-enthusiastic Dom Martin explains all on the eclectic and eccentric operations of the pioneering Polytechnic Youth label
Nathaniel Cramp, the head and the heart behind London’s long-surviving Sonic Cathedral label, shares all on fifteen years of auditory congregation
Having recently brought us the first Madder Rose LP in twenty years, Billy Coté serves-up an equally reflective and deep-sounds-mining mixtape
To tie-in with his new Dream Division LP for Polytechnic Youth, Tom McDowell delivers a mixtape of deep dark interstellar grooves
Panamint Manse shares rapturous homemade synthpop, moments of nourishing intimacy and a Castles In Space exclusive on this mixtape for Concrete Islands
Gareth Thompson learns how the languages of guitar and cello are apt for interpreting Herman Hesse in a mazy discourse with Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn
Stewart Gardiner wanders down a holloway into an out of time world to speak with Vic Mars about his Inner Roads and Outer Paths LP for Clay Pipe
Listening Center channels Philip K Dick, back roads and bus shelters with the Time Out of Joint (or, Best Bargains in Multiverse Incisions) mixtape
Alexander Tucker talks to Stewart Gardiner about Alan Moore’s Providence, panspermia and multi-dimensional imagery in Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
Adrian Dutt – of Spectres, Howling Owl Records and Rough Trade Bristol – escaped into his hiding place and returned with a mixtape of beauty in chaos
Glen Johnson recalls the gestation of Piano Magic’s inventive and sublime second album, upon its twentieth-anniversary vinyl reissue
We pay a sideways tribute to the late David Berman – of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains – by republishing this entertainingly off-centre 2002 interview