Tayyab Amin

May 14, 2024 | eventbrite.com | Tayyab Amin

Join us for a free-to-attend event with London-based journalist and filmmaker Ed Gillett, author of Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain. Ed will sit in conversation with writer Tayyab Amin to discuss how dance music has resisted (and shaped) legislation in the UK over the past four decades, and the politics of club music going forward. Click here to learn more about Party Lines. RSVP for free, donations to help support the event welcome.

Dec 25, 2023 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Tayyab Amin |Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Alexis Petridis |Rosie Esther Solomon |Aneesa Ahmed |Stephanie Phillips | +4 more

Composite: Daniel Cavazos/ Brendon Burton/ Gobinder JhittaSanam – Aykathani Malakon ص​ن​م - أ​ي​ق​ظ​ن​ي م​ل​ا​ك​ٌThe formation of Beirut six-piece Sanam is emblematic of Lebanon’s thriving experimental music scene in and of itself: the group were convened at the behest of Irtijal festival for a collaboration with Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust, a juncture which catalysed the musicians into recording together later on.

Dec 25, 2023 | theguardian.com | Tayyab Amin |Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Alexis Petridis |Aneesa Ahmed |Stephanie Phillips |Michael Cragg | +3 more

Sanam – Aykathani Malakon ص​ن​م - أ​ي​ق​ظ​ن​ي م​ل​ا​ك​ٌSanam: Bell صنم - بل – videoThe formation of Beirut six-piece Sanam is emblematic of Lebanon’s thriving experimental music scene in and of itself: the group were convened at the behest of Irtijal festival for a collaboration with Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust, a juncture which catalysed the musicians into recording together later on.

Oct 3, 2023 | frieze.com | Tayyab Amin

Describing the UK Government’s reaction to the surge of unlicensed pirate radio stations in the early 1980s, journalist and filmmaker Ed Gillett tells of a schism among former prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet: nativists on one side, fearful of the political consequences that voices for society’s most silenced might bring, and more business-minded Tories on the other, who believed licensing should be opened up to let supply meet this rising demand.

Sep 28, 2023 | theguardian.com | Tayyab Amin

Subversive sound generator … Daniel Lopatin, AKA Oneohtrix Point Never. Photograph: Andrew Strasser & Shawn Lovejoy/Joe PerriSubversive sound generator … Daniel Lopatin, AKA Oneohtrix Point Never.