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Be sure not to miss... NegativWobblyLand

Cafe Oto, Dalston Kingsland Wednesday 9, November

San Francisco cut/paste sound collage pioneers NegativLand team up with fellow Fog City resident Wobbly for an evening of home made electronics. The collaboration is centred around the exploitation of The Booper, a fully analogue device put together from salvaged radio and amplifier parts, creating an unpredictable beast whose temperament is as mysterious as the racket it generates.

Support comes from prolific Argentinian noiser Alan Courtis and Evol’s “computer music for hooligans.”

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Hot takes: Murakami

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Hot takes: Murakami

Haruki Murakami has become a household name. Often seen as the frontrunner of Japanese literature in the West, he has also become an increasingly divisive author. Despite criticism regarding his presentation of women, and repetitiveness or banality in his oeuvre, Murakami still emerges as a widely read, well-enjoyed novelist. So

By Aditi Mehta, Mohammad Majlisi and Tarun Nair