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Label Focus #29: Constellation; part three - music

Okay, okay, so we left it to part three to get onto the 'music' section of a record label interview, but Constellation is a pretty special case. Here we bring the final part of the transcript of Andrzej Lukowski's interview with founders Don Wilkie and Ia»

Label Focus #29: Constellation; part two - politics

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

Welcome to part two of DiS's publication of Plan B's extensive interview transcripts with Don Wilkie and Ian Ilavsky, co-founders of Constellation records. Yesterday they discussed being 'of Montreal'; today the founders of the notoriously leftwing label »

Label Focus #29, part one: Constellation, the Plan B transcripts

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

In May this year, I conducted a series of email interviews with various key players from Montreal's uber-inspirational, ultra-independent Constellation record label. They were for a piece in the final Plan B magazine, which was a focus on the Constellatio»

Ornette Coleman's Meltdown: the DiS review

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

Using a combination of lies, subterfuge, occasional guestlist and frequently our own money, DiS has spent the last week fluttering about London excitedly soaking up the once in a lifetime thrills of Ornette Coleman's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre. We still don't really know what harmolodics are, but we do know what our highlights were - they're the things we've written about down there.»

Label Focus #18: Southern Records

In Depth by Gareth Dobson

The latest of our Label Focus articles directs its questions the way of Southern Records, both a label and distributor (Dischord, Ipecac, etc) of repute»

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In Depth by Gareth Dobson

With Godspeed You! Black Emperor on hiatus, said band’s lynchpin Efrim Menuck now has A Silver Mt Zion as his priority musical pursuit. DiS meets him ahead of the release of new LP 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons»

ATP Weekend One: The Dirty Three: the DiS diary...

In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers

DrownedinSound.com went to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The Dirty Three-curated weekender at the end of April. We arrived full of excitement, bubbling like freshly poured pints of £3-a-pop lager. Then we drank too many £3-a-pop lagers and fell over the garden furniture outside our chalet. Loudly. And annoyed our neighbour. Sorry...»