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Microplastics

Ray Philp

A newsletter of essays about music and the ripples it creates.

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"Perfection" and the ennui of milennial taste

San Sebastian, Spain. Photo: Ray Philp

Early in Vincenzo Latronico’s formally excellent novel, Perfection, Tom and Anna, a pair of digital nomads from “Southern Europe” living in Berlin, describe Tempelhof Feld as “the true essence” of the...

5 months ago
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Last night a writer saved my life

Two unidentified writers who also DJ, April 2025 (Photo: Jen Heape)

A sentiment that may pass for an endangered species: I feel sorry for DJs. In the era of the "multi-hyphenate"—the first and last time you'll see a shocker like that in th...

9 months ago
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When club culture sells out to private equity

Lime bike sunset on Waterloo Bridge, March 2025 (Photo: Ray Philp)

KKR, one of the world’s largest private equity (PE) firms, is headquartered at 30 Hudson Yards, a skyscraper with a Family Guy underbite. The glass jaw that protrudes from...

a year ago
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Did trance ruin the "special" music of Goa?

Driving to Vancouver, September 2024 (Photo: Ray Philp)

Early in the novel Moon Juice Stomper, by the DJ Ray Castle, an everyman raver called Jules is in a Goan restaurant ringing a friend in Australia, telling him that “the most vile fun...

a year ago
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The durian scheme, or what's wrong with "experimental" music

Roland Goeschl, Large Cube, Inclined (1967-68), MUMOK, Vienna (Photo: Ray Philp)

In 1856, the English naturalist Alfred Russell wrote effusively about a “food of the most exquisite flavour.” Published on the margins of botanical academia,...

2 years ago
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