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DIGGIN'THRU JAPAN

Five years in the making. Five cities. Thirteen record stores. One profound question: what does it mean to keep a scene alive? Damien and Gautier Barras went to Japan to find out — and came back with something none of them expected.

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INTERVIEW WITH MASOMENOS

They set up a temporary studio inside Hôtel Costes. Temporary became permanent. Three years on: eight albums, sixteen EPs, MidiMinuit — three days, zero rehearsals, all improvised in a Kreuzberg loft with a B-Steinway and a Studer console. Ricardo Villalobos has already claimed Glacial as the album of his dreams. Kirk Lightsey came at 80 and played with the enthusiasm of a newcomer.

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INTERVIEW RYAN CROSSON & CESAR MERVEILLE

Dance music was always about having fun. That's the ethos Ryan Crosson and Cesar Merveille carry into everything they do — individually as forces behind Visionquest and Cadenza, and together as a duo whose collaborative album DRM, mixed by Luke Solomon, pushes electronic music somewhere genuinely new. We caught them in conversation for the launch of our partnership with Beirut in the Mix.

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