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The Portal: A tQ Reissues & Compilations Etc of the Year Special
Just as we did last week, this regeneration of The Portal is intended to be a companion for the tQ Reissues & Compilations Etc of the Year chart which went up yesterday – you can catch up with it here. So focusing on the Top 20 records, we’ve dug up interviews, Strange Worlds Of… and so on with Coil, Soft Cell, Arthur Russell, Diamanda Galás, Jeff Mills, Goblin Band, The Lijadu Sisters, Aphex Twin and The Fall. Supporters in our top Subscriber and Subscriber Plus tiers also have instant access to playlists of music featured in this chart, as well as all the bumper bonus editorial playlists that can now be found here. If you’re not already a subscriber, you can sign up here. As newsletter subscribers, you’re all automatically entered into a draw to win £250 in vouchers to spend with our friends at Norman Records, and we all hope that you’re enjoying our end of 2025 editorial, from these charts to the column roundups.
Beyond The Hits
Aphex Twin: Quietus Writers Select Their Deep Cuts
With new album Syro just announced Dale Berning Sawa, Joe Banks, Emily Bick, Charlie Frame, Joe Clay, Tristan Bath, Ned Raggett, John Doran and Cian Traynor select their favourite album cuts, side-project tracks, collaborations, b-sides and rarities
A Quietus Interview
The Sun and the Moon: Yeye Taiwo of The Lijadu Sisters Interviewed
Ahead of the reissue of Horizon Unlimited this week, Steph Phillips talks to Yeye Taiwo of legendary Nigerian Afrobeat group The Lijadu Sisters about revolutionising Nigerian pop music and how she is ready to go back on stage. Portrait of Kehinde & Taiwo by Jeremy Marre from the documentary Konkombe, courtesy Harcourt Films
A Quietus Interview
To End All War: An Interview With Diamanda Galás
Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment
A Quietus Interview
‘Different Atmospheres, New Locations’: Jeff Mills Interviewed
Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills celebrates 20 years of his Axis label this autumn with a book of artwork, photos and essays about its history. While in London, he sat down with David Stubbs to envisage possible futures
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