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ADHOC N˚7 ADHOC N˚7 “All inquiry into antiquity, all shows. But by dissecting facets we read, must become Greeks, curiosity respecting the of the There or Then in this issue, Romans, Turks, priest and king, Pyramids, the excavated cities, AdHoc seeks to unlock the Here martyr and executioner; must Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, and Now. fasten these images to some Mexico, Memphis—is the desire reality in our secret experience, to do away with this wild, savage, Dub is a decades-old genre, or we shall learn nothing rightly.” and preposterous There or Then, for example, but its traits are The topics discussed in the and introduce in its place the malleable and, as such, ever-rel- subsequent pages render more Here and the Now.” evant. Maverick artists have explicitly the presentness of Ralph Waldo Emerson mined dub’s roots and principles history. Don’t treat the music “History” (1841) throughout the genre’s history, of the past like a relic; instead, imbuing their own revolutionary fasten it to some reality in your This month, AdHoc looks back. musics with the spirit—and im- secret experience. In the first iteration of our newly portantly, the bass—of dub to expanded bimonthly zine, Mike break down various cultural and Sugarman outlines the history political hierarchies. In present of British label Planet Mu; Beth day British grime, the aesthetic Tolmach looks back to dub’s for- and ideological histories of dub mations and traces its iterations are emphatically present. Grime from then to now; Bobby Power artists honor the dub heroes of speaks with veteran artist Robert yore, not with distant worship but A.A.
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