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Philip Sherburne’s Biography

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I've been writing about music and culture since the late 1990s, with a focus on electronic, experimental, and underground music. I'm currently a contributing editor at Pitchfork and a freelancer for sundry other places. Previously, I was senior contributing editor at SPIN and editor of Beatportal, Beatport's news blog, and I wrote extensively for The Wire for more than a decade.

Additionally, my work has been published in The New York Times, Slate, Interview, Frieze, and Parkett, among other ou…

Philip Sherburne’s Journalist Portfolio

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Articles: Songs in the Key of Zzz: The History of Sleep Music

Articles: Songs in the Key of Zzz: The History of Sleep Music

From sleep concerts to white-noise apps, an investigation of the curious relationship between sound and sleep.

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Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete

Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete

"Frameworks of taste rely on dumb and great things to exist in concert with one another," Daniel Lopatin wrot…

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Cover Story: Panda Bear

Cover Story: Panda Bear

Alien. Dreamer. Expat. For a decade, Noah Lennox has lived within the shimmer and shadow of Lisbon. Philip Sh…

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Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin

Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin

An interview with Aphex Twin.

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Profiles: Jamie xx: Taking Shelter in Loud Places

Profiles: Jamie xx: Taking Shelter in Loud Places

A couple of days before visiting his studio, I'm standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Smith beneath a massive p…

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PC Music's Twisted Electronic Pop: A User's Manual

PC Music's Twisted Electronic Pop: A User's Manual

What is PC Music? A label, a scene, a subgenre, a red herring? It may be all of these things at once. The sha…

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FR 179: Smalltown Supersound Is a Feeling

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By Philip Sherburne Verified
| Futurism Restated
There’s a funny contradiction with Norway’s Smalltown Supersound label. It keeps a relatively low profile—or at least, it never seems to go out of its way to promote itself. And owing to the vast array of music that it releases, you’d never really think of a Smalltown Supersound sound. And yet, at the same time, Smalltown has become a stealth behemoth.
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FR 178: Ben Vida, Booker Stardrum, and Will Epstein Are Play Time

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By Philip Sherburne Verified
| Futurism Restated
“I feel like we’re more like a band than a project,” Ben Vida said to me a few months back when I spoke with him and his friends Booker Stardrum and Will Epstein about their collaborative debut, which they released last week—under the name Play Time—on Balmat. That band-versus-project distinction is key. All three musicians are, of course, wildly prolific.
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Batu / Donato Dozzy: Exhale

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By Philip Sherburne Verified
| Pitchfork Verified
When Donato Scaramuzzi and Omar McCutcheon stepped into the DJ booth together at the Netherlands’ Draaimolen festival in 2023, their back-to-back set represented a meeting of two different generations, and two distinct sensibilities.
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