Beats + Pieces Vol. 68

A general update from me to you. My most recent marble maze. Built with foamboard and mirrored cardboard. Selected Works is a weekly (usually) newsletter by the Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand) based freelance music journalist, broadcaster, copywriter and sometimes DJ Martyn Pepperell, aka Yours Truly. Most weeks, Selected Works consists of a recap of what I’ve been doing lately and some of what I’ve been listening to and reading, paired with film photographs I’ve taken + some bonuses. All of that said, sometimes it takes completely different forms. AN EXERCISE IN DEEP FEEDBACK: As most of you following along have probably noticed, I’ve been spending a bit of my spare time building marble mazes by hand lately. Initially, this whole tangent began at the request of a small relative who wanted one to play with – and I sure wasn’t going to say no. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a photographic collage of a bunch of the mazes I’ve built on Twitter. Later on that day or night, The London-based DJ, producer, broadcaster, writer and thinker Elijah – who I think of as one of the guys who helped reinvigorate the UK grime scene in the...