Features
Sarah Nixey: Going Coastal
She was – and soon will be again – the enigmatic chanteuse with Black Box Recorder. In the meantime, Sarah Nixey’s new solo album ‘Sea Fever’, created on the coastline of her native Dorset, is a beautiful, wintry rumination on change and loss
Sleaford Mods: X-Cess All Areas
Sleaford Mods return with their most ambitious, sharp-tongued set yet, AS ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ cranks up fury and vivid sonics into a caustic portrait of cultural freefall and catharsis. They’re loud, angry and utterly irresistible
Propaganda: Wishful Syncing
As Propaganda unveil a definitive new boxset documenting their classic ZTT era, Ralf Dörper, Claudia Brücken, Susanne Freytag and Michael Mertens reflect on the tensions, triumphs and visionary studio craft behind ‘A Secret Wish’
Tortoise ‘Djed’
With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene
Mike Paradinas
In the wake of his recent release, ‘Manzana’, Planet Mu label founder and IDM veteran Mike Paradinas – aka µ-Ziq – reflects on the influences that shape how he makes music
Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’
In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story
Reviews
Craven Faults ‘Sidings’ (The Leaf Label)
Do The Locomotion
Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Tranquilizer’ (Warp)
Sample Relics
Factory Floor
Factory Floor are back… and feel like walking quickly but not quite running through a crumbling concrete industrial estate
News
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7133
ES7133 seven-inch features Propaganda
It’s All About Vinyl – Episode 01
New Podcast from Electronic Sound
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7132
ES7132 seven-inch features The Divine Comedy
Live Sessions
ESLS018 – Sunda Arc
Electronica and woodwind – together at last Sunda Arc is an electronic project that seamlessly blends digital soundscapes…
ESLS017 – Bodega
Brooklyn’s post-punk art rock stylings hit the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS016 – Ultramarine
Electronica blends into a sound art experience in the Electronic Sound studio
Recent
A Thousand Mad Things
Londoner channels synthpop’s golden era
Fizzy Water As A Treat
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Booze
PVA: Do The Mash
Embracing the creative potential of imperfection, enigmatic London trio PVA craft a dazzling “battleground of ideas and sounds”
DJ Chloe Harris, aka Raica
Seattle musician and DJ Chloe Harris, aka Raica, settles in for this month’s quick-fire questions
Invisible Logic
Scottish stalwart pushes the right buttons
Meat Strap
South London improv duo earn plaudits
Darkroom Dubs
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Darkroom Dubs
Giant Day
US rockers revel in new-found electronics
Methyl Orange
Epic sonic fictions from Manc marvel
Person People
Alt-pop from former Woman’s Hour man
Whitelabrecs
Location: Lincolnshire, UK Est: January 2016
Various Artists ‘Blueprints For Modern (Techno)Logy Vol 1’ (Plus 8, 1991)
“Our first mistake was wandering unprepared into that hip Atlanta boutique where they sold all that rave clobber, and asking for a recommendation on a hot local DJ.”