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A selection of cinematic sounds curated by Gazelle Twin

The writer and artist delivers a tuneful crash course on the history and development of ballroom music 

Many of the streaming giant's curated playlists complicate Western obsessions with ‘world’ and ‘exotic’ music

Cursed images, the latest chill wave and Janelle Monáe’s ‘emotion pictures’: what to read this weekend

Paul Rekret surveys ‘chill wave’, the mellow pop, sepia-toned indie and tropical dance tropes in new music releases