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Tone Glow
@toneglow
A newsletter highlighting the best in experimental music and film. Tweets by @misterminsoo. [email protected]
Chicago, IL
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    Oct 10, 2024
    "That’s one of the sad things about this modern view of happiness, that it’s something you pursue and attain. But actually, it’s always there. It’s not something you have to chase or find—it’s in you, or right by you." @misterminsoo talks with the legendary pop star @utadahikaru
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    May 4, 2020
    Jim O'Rourke talks Genesis, Z Channel, Derek Bailey, Christoph Heemann, buying weed for John Fahey, singing enka, his new album, and more in our newest interview-only issue. He also hand-picked 25 albums he thinks you should check out.
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    Tone Glow 014: Jim O'Rourke
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    Jan 23, 2024
    Tone Glow is joining the call to @strikegermany and will not be covering this year’s @berlinale. The institution is complicit in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, in their destruction of Palestinian culture, and the murder of Palestinian journalists.
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    Aug 15, 2024
    "I empathize with devoutly religious people and even envy them a little bit. They’re giving all of the explainable parts of themselves to something unexplainable, and I want to be like that with something in my life." —@mavi4mayor @mtfyoungboy goes long w/ Charlotte rapper Mavi
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    May 1, 2024
    "At first, I was listening to Basic Channel and studying how they composed music. Most of the labels didn’t reply to me... they would tell me that they didn’t want to release my music." —Shinichi Atobe @misterminsoo talks with @shinichi_atobe in his first ever interview
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    Oct 20, 2025
    "If I can love music, if I can find something that’s interesting about it, if I can find something beautiful, then I’m still a human being." —Oneohtrix Point Never @misterminsoo talks with Daniel Lopatin (@0PN) about his new LP, 'Tranquilizer' (out 11/17 on @WarpRecords)
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    Jun 17, 2020
    "We know enough about Detroit to know it needs help, but listening to techno and making it a worldwide enterprise has not done anything to put money back into the city." —DeForrest Brown, Jr. @dfnbrown1 talks techno, empathy, and his new book & albums.
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    Tone Glow 018: DeForrest Brown, Jr.
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    Feb 23, 2025
    "The main reason I sing is not so others can hear me—it is a form of protection. It is like my heart has an egg that is locked inside of a cage, and I am always trying to protect it." —Ichiko Aoba @misterminsoo talks with @ichikoaoba about her new album, 'Luminescent Creatures'
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    Jan 26, 2023
    "To become [musically] multilingual is a natural process; *trying* to be multilingual—that goal is old." —Otomo Yoshihide @misterminsoo talks with @otomojamjam about his childhood, Masayuki Takayanagi, Far East Network (FEN), and more.
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    Tone Glow 091: Otomo Yoshihide
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    Jan 15, 2021
    The collective memorializing of MF DOOM has been heartening and celebratory, so to honor the inimitable rapper and producer, our writers wrote about some of the songs they love from him. Rest in power.
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    In Memoriam: MF DOOM
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    Tone Glow
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    Nov 2, 2021
    Tone Glow is going on a temporary hiatus of sorts. All already-conducted interviews and written work will be published throughout the next months. Read the full statement at the site. toneglow.substack.com/p/an-update-on…
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    Jan 27, 2024
    "When I receive a commission from someone else, I am offered a world that I could not imagine on my own, and I create music as if I were playing in that world." —Yuka Kitamura @ashleybardhan talks with @_Yuka_Kitamura_ about FromSoftware and becoming an independent composer
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    Dec 31, 2021
    These were our favorite albums of 2021
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    Our Favorite Albums, 2021
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    Mar 15, 2022
    "I only make one kind of music. I don’t make anything else. I’m interested in sound—a particular order in it." —Phill Niblock @misterminsoo talks with Niblock about his childhood, his time in the army, filming Sun Ra and Arthur Russell, and more.
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    Tone Glow 082: Phill Niblock
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