Features
The Cleaners From Venus ‘Corridor Of Dreams’
Professional Englishman Martin Newell recounts the story of 1982’s ‘Corridor Of Dreams’, a classic track by The Cleaners From Venus born out of industry disillusionment, fraught relationships and a love for the “damp, misty lands” of Essex
Optimo Espacio
In the weeks before his recent untimely death, Keith McIvor, aka JD Twitch, revisited the birth of Optimo Espacio, the celebrated Glasgow club night he helmed with Jonnie Wilkes, from 1997 to 2010 and beyond
Graham Massey
As 808 State’s Graham Massey prepares to tour 1991’s acid house/rave classic ‘Ex:el’, he revisits his various influences, from Hawkwind to jazz
Paddy Kingsland ‘Fourth Dimension’ (BBC, 1973)
“I was on the phone with [redacted] from Sonic Youth… ”
William Basinski: Loop Guru
William Basinski’s ‘The Disintegration Loops’ has attained legendary status. As an expansive new reissue drops, this dark ambient masterpiece drifts back into focus, shimmering with haunted reverie
Chicks On Speed: Fast And Furious
Anarchic art-poppers Chicks On Speed are back with a career-spanning boxset and typically provocative new material. Co-founder Alex Murray-Leslie discusses witches, creative rebirths and trying to “break music”
Reviews
Factory Floor
Factory Floor are back… and feel like walking quickly but not quite running through a crumbling concrete industrial estate
Various Artists ‘Vari/Ations – Ode To Oram’ (Nonclassical)
Totally Rewired
Kathryn Joseph & Lomond Campbell
“I’m going to play lots of disgusting songs about fucking…”
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
Yucksome And Vom-Worthy
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are Mushrooms
Hilary Woods
Irish musician Hilary Woods takes on our quick-fire question machine
Bug Teeth
Leeds outfit aim high with debut album
Windscreen Strings
Existential meditations from electronicist
Tristram Cary: A Century In Sound
This year marks the centenary of Tristram Cary’s birth. Regarded as the father of British electronic music, it’s……
Loris S Sarid
Glasgow’s Loris S Sarid on the first and last albums he bought, plus a go-to record
Jonny Slut : That Nagging Feeling
With a killer electroclash compilation just released, Nag Nag Nag founder and DJ Jonny Slut lifts the lid on wild club nights, his Human League fixation and the time Cilla Black got down to some seriously filthy tunes
The Electronic Sound ‘Cold War Electronica’ Double CD ES7131
ES7131 seven-inch features Various Artists
Ashnymph
Psych-tinged electropoppers set to erupt
Jess Brett
Berlin calls for emerging singer/producer
Bricolage
Location: Glasgow, Scotland Est: 2015
Nordine Staïfi
Sweeping the forgotten corridors of music, this month Scott Blixen turns his attention to Algerian electronicist Nordine Staïfi