Post your questions for Flying Lotus
As he prepares a new EP for release, the electronic musician and esoteric film-maker will answer your questions
‘The music could not stop for three days’: how Sirāt went on a road trip to the dark heart of rave
Club culture is notoriously hard to capture on film. Oscar-tipped director Oliver Laxe explains why he had to organise his own music festival in the Moroccan desert to find deeper meaning in dance-floor ecstasy
Winter Olympics 2026 opening ceremony review – disco-dancing opera masters upstage Mariah Carey
Carey was the big draw at Milan’s San Siro, but she was outweighed by pop-classical artists – and a sizeable dollop of kitsch
In an era of frictionless digital experiences, there’s something magical about obsolete technology
DVDs and CDs signalled the beginning of the end for physical media but now have pride of place among technologies that are forgotten but not quite gone
‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis
Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators
‘We get a lot of requests for it to be used in sex scenes’: how Goldfrapp made Ooh La La
‘I couldn’t think of a line for the chorus – but we had just been to France. I Baudelaire into the lyrics somewhere, too’
Triple J’s Hottest 100: more than 2m votes have been cast – but who will win?
The radio station keeps its countdown tightly guarded – but there are a few predictions that can safely be made
‘It’s more productive than doomscrolling’: film-maker Ben Wheatley on his secret life as musician Dave Welder
While playing with nine-figure Hollywood budgets, the Kill List and Meg 2 director has become a prolific music producer. Next up is his experimental film, Bulk
Sébastien Tellier: ‘I thought I’d be famous after Eurovision – but nobody noticed’
The musician’s elegant electropop marked him out as one of the ‘cool French dudes’, before an attempt to literally crash the Song Contest fell badly flat. Now back with an adventurous new album, he talks about the man who stole his identity and why he doesn’t care for ‘good taste’
‘By 15, I was hanging out with Skrillex’: the idiosyncratic club music of reformed EDM kid Villager
Disillusioned by his early EDM success, Alex Young bought hardware, embraced UK dance culture – and reinvented himself
Soul-baring ballads, alt-rock fury and neon-lit techno: five-star albums you may have missed this year
Valentina Magaletti drummed for her life, Sarz got hips swinging and Daniel Avery got slinky and serpentine: our writers pick their favourite unsung LPs from 2025
The 10 best global albums of 2025
Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic tracks
The 16 best Australian albums of 2025
Your guide to Australia’s best music of the year, including Folk Bitch Trio, Ninajirachi, Tame Impala and others
Ikonika: Sad review – vocal-led new direction is a hit for the Hyperdub veteran
(Hyperdub)The dancefloor producer weaves seductive and steely lyrics with their trademark production in a convincing embrace of pop
Peaches: ‘We need lube to smooth out the friction of the world’
The Canadian electroclash icon on No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the state of global politics, the ‘punk energy’ of the older generation and her love of ping-pong