Ahead of his first gig in London at Handsome on August 8th, Vienna based DJ and promoter Rumi de Baires took some time to talk about music, his home country of Argentina, and his journey from psychology academic to dance floor doyen. Rumi de Baires grew up in Buenos Aires, the country’s colossal capital that sits on the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, so called for the supposed rich deposits of silver surrounding it (as was Argentina itself, which translates as something clo

I'm republishing here a series of articles and interviews originally written for Faith zine. This is an interview I did with Hercules and Love Affair's Andy Butler for his album In Amber. There is a disarming ingenuousness to Andy Butler that sits incongruently with the queer underground he both grew out of and came to be recognised by. Having put out consistently well-received records steeped in the history and culture of house and disco for nearly a decade and a half, his e