''Blow Up'' is an Italian monthly music magazine, focusing primarily on alternative and obscure music. It specializes in the coverage of

house music House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground ...

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

, industrial music,

queercore Queercore (or homocore) is a cultural/social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of the punk subculture and a music genre that comes from punk rock. It is distinguished by its discontent with society in general, and specifically ...

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...

, and

jazz improvisation Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist inv ...

. Besides articles related to music, the magazine also contains sections devoted to literature and film analysis. The editor of the magazine is Stefano Isidoro Bianchi, who is also the founder. The section on literature is curated by Fabio Donalisio and the film section by Roberto Curti.

History and profile

''Blow Up'' was founded in September 1995 as a fanzine that evolved into a monthly magazine. After six numbers, in fact, the fanzine magazine becomes available only by subscription. In June 1998 the magazine arrives on newsstands. ''Blow Up'' is published by Tuttle Publishing, founded by Bianchi in 1997 and based in Cortona, Tuscany. The name was inspired by the character Archibald "Harry" Tuttle of the 1985 movie ''

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''. In addition to the magazine, the Tuttle opened in 2003, a series of books titled "The Books of Harry", dedicated to strands, themes and cultural phenomena related to music and rock culture. Fifteen volumes have been published to date. The magazine has received the Premio Lo Straniero in 2010, with the following motivation: "By acting from the margins and in total independence, tefano Isidoro Bianchipreceded the prior music press for treating non-conventional or free distribution in the national territory, and has contributed significantly to the formation of the latest generation of listeners, musicians and critics. In a period of the utmost confusion in music, tefano Isidoro Bianchikept his desire to offer routes of synthesis that were trying to be placed into coherent movements, which were otherwise isolated or fragmented, that crossed the body of underground music." tefano Isidoro Bianchi Premio 2010 - Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN)/ref>

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