Luke Turner

The last episode in our series exploring Ukrainian music, made in collaboration with Kyiv's 20ft Radio, explores music trends post-Maidan and being “a rhizomatic thing” during wartime.

As regular listeners to The Quietus’ Low Culture Podcast might be aware, our Luke Turner doesn’t really cope well with horror films. Having said that, John Doran loves them, as do many of our Subscribers, so we decided to do one this month in the form of a chat about Paul W. S. Anderson’s Event Horizon which, […]

It’s getting dark outside, the tonsured creature above is looking at me funny – time to get out these monthly playlists before things get weirder. Firstly, we had a rush of new members signing up over the weekend, to all of you, thanks very much. Secondly, as John is away at the moment your Low […]

It’s hard to shake off a feeling that one of the reasons broken beat hasn’t been given its critical due – certainly in comparison to other sides of the London soundsystem music continuum – is that journalists, and I include myself in this of course, are dorks. Broken beat, on the other hand, was always […]

Where to, musician? In his magisterial work, Music In The Balkans, Professor Jim Samson traces some of the region’s musical traditions back to the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain in 1492. Samson sees the resultant Ottoman-Balkan musical heritage of the Sepharad irrigating two narratives of place: one of exodus and one of acculturation. Both narratives […]

If you’ve read much about London Night Czar Amy Lamé recently, it’s unlikely to have been particularly flattering. Since being appointed in 2016 to advocate for the capital’s nightlife and improve late-night policy-making, her whopping £130k salary and apparent inability to deliver tangible results have been met with increasingly vociferous criticism. Lamé’s announcement earlier this […]

“The whole thing was like, I don’t know how to say it in English, like it ran by itself, you know – it was super automatic,” says Boris Wilsdorf about recording Anglo-Irish-Aussie-German three-way power trio Eros, “what is it in German? Ein Selbstläufer, a ‘self-runner’.” Wilsdorf is a Berlin-born music producer who learned his chops working at the city’s […]

A group of writers, musicians and artists have issued a joint statement outlining their concerns over the fast-developing artificial intelligence revolution. All of Radiohead’s members have joined the likes of Geoff Barrow, Billy Bragg, Robert Smith, Max Richter, Jim Kerr, Joe Goddard of Hot Chip in the letter which criticised companies that use their work […]

For about a decade my iTunes library could compete with some of the most eclectic music collections out there. You want one off singles from long forgotten noughties electroclash kids? I’ve got it. Maybe a rare radio session of a 90s alt rock star downloaded from a little read blog in the middle of the […]

Electroclash seems to be having something of a moment – or perhaps it’s a moment that’s been happening for a while now. Its influence is all over Charli XCX’s Brat, and most obviously in my single of the year, her Billie Eilish collaboration ‘Guess’. A few years back, SOPHIE’s ‘New York’s Burning Down’ was a nod to […]