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Thom Yorke has shared a half-hour mix of tracks by Moor Mother and billy woods, the Fall, Q-Tip, and more. Aired this morning on the BBC Radio 6 Music show of Mary Anne Hobbs, the guest mix corrals an international selection that also features Chaka Demus & Pliers, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points, Mark Pritchard, Reece Cox, Errorsmith, Charanjit Singh, Rhythm for Reasons, and a handful of pirate radio samples credited to Death Is Not the End. Head to 6 Music to listen. Yesterday, the Ra...

Daniel Boczarski / Redferns via Getty Images Sometimes, rumors are all we have to go by. The one about a new Madlib record, Sound Ancestors, started in late October: The British producer Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, whos spent the last few months of quarantine releasing new music and excavating old tapes as part of audio-visual mixes on his YouTube page, mentioned that he and Madlib, the Los Angeles beatmaker born Otis Jackson, Jr., had been working on an album together. Confi...

- - - ‘On A Mission’ was released when electronic music was almost exclusively a phallocentric profession, but Peckham’s own, navigated the hallowed ground of dark distortion with sangfroid and a feminine cool. The Benga-produced title track ingeniously filtered club-generated moments to the mainstream: it’s injection of heavy-duty bass subordinate to Katy B’s cat-and-mouse role play, vocals contorting to match the brazenness of the syncopated beats; beckoning a call-a...