I wanted it to sound alive': cult DJ Midland on his musical journey through the Aids crisis
Briefly

For a long while, I would feel like the only gay person in those spaces. I came out of the summer of 2019 feeling like: I can't really go back.
It's the first time I've really created with intent not just thought: 'Oh, this is a track I will play in a club.' I realised I had just grown up in this total silence.
Growing up as a gay teenager, you are always hiding yourself. It was within this period of introspection that the seeds of my debut album Fragments of Us began to grow.
His upcoming album feels like his biggest achievement yet. Fragments of Us is an attempt to fill, and reclaim, that silence.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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