Features
‘I Think Of You’ Little Annie
Mixing sardonic beat poetry with dub effects and an alt-dance outlook, Little Annie’s classic ‘I Think Of You’ is still one of the best records to emerge from the On-U Sound stable
Laptop: Not Fade Away
Championed by the likes of John Peel and Steve Lamacq back in the late 1990s, Jesse Hartman makes an unexpected but very welcome return with his synthpop alter ego Laptop – all thanks to a Vince Clarke and Neil Arthur cover version
Michael Brook: Blue Is The Colour
In 1992, Canadian sound artist Michael Brook recorded ‘Cobalt Blue’ and ‘Live At The Aquarium’. As these immersive world music albums are reissued by 4AD, he looks back fondly on a fertile creative period spent working with Brian Eno, the “Infinite Guitar” and a tank filled with hungry sharks
The Peace Race: Peace Process
Pop production heavyweights Jim Eliot and Pascal Gabriel find a new creative freedom as ace analogue synthpop duo The Peace Race
Tape Loops: The Splice Is Right
Once upon a time, audio tape was so ubiquitous that most households had enough of the stuff to wrap around several football pitches. Now it’s an obsolete curio of a sonically explosive era. Loop back with us as we follow the Möbius strip of sound itself from Victorian Paris to a vast subterranean maze
Tape Loops: Reel History
Snipped, spliced and looped, magnetic tape became a radical creative tool that sparked a sonic revolution. From the avant-garde’s very earliest experiments through to pop visionaries and fearless underground adventurers…
Reviews
Hanna Tuulikki & Tommy Perman ‘Echo In The Dark’ (Kin-Tu)
Release The Bats
Various Artists ‘The Silent Harvest Volume 1’ (Folk Police)
Meadow Modulations
Boards Of Canada ‘Inferno’ (Warp)
Red Hot Radio
News
The Electronic Sound CD ES7140
ES7139 seven-inch features Steve Reich ‘Tape Pieces’
New single ‘Cyclops’ released from Maria Uzor
Esoteric electronic artist Maria Uzor shares 2nd single from upcoming new album Fantasyland
It’s All About Vinyl Episode 16
This episode Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push talk about Devo’s recent UK show, and what happened to the B52s shortly afterwards.
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
Tape Loops: 20 Essential Listens
Finders Keepers co-founder and DJ Doug Shipton hand-picks 20 indispensable tape music albums, charting the medium’s extraordinary journey from studio novelty to revolutionary instrument
Skupina
Location: Between Slovakia and Czechia Est: 2016
Beef And Onion And Toenails
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Greggs The Bakers
Martin Carr
Fresh from releasing a terrific new solo album of “distracted beats and messy electronics”, one-time Boo Radleys man Martin Carr talks through his defining influences
Jolt
Industrial mayhem to shock your system
Cloud Studies
Scene stalwart fronts flawless shoegazers
Tyondai Braxton
American composer and producer Tyondai Braxton on his first and last albums, and an all-time favourite
Robert Margouleff
Robert Margouleff, Tonto mega-synth inventor, Stevie Wonder collaborator and Devo producer, remembers how synthesisers changed his life – and, to be frank, a fair few of ours
Bathing Suits
Leeds electro-noisers reap havoc
‘Canaxis 5’ Holger Czukay
Resident archivist Jack Dangers scans the heavens and spots Holger Czukay in pre-Can activity on the 1969 album, ‘Canaxis 5’
Lola Dutronic and Donna Summer
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Lola Dutronic and Donna Summer
Brett Naucke ‘Electronic Hypnosis Program’ (Make Noise, 2019)
“Over on the west side of town, there’s a beer market where you can pick up pineapple vanilla IPAs, whiskey stouts or a gently used Minimoog Voyager…”