Features
Nídia And Valentina Magaletti: Opposites Attract
Afro-Portuguese producer Nídia and experimental percussionist Valentina Magaletti have teamed up for ‘Estradas’, a melodic and pulsating tour de force of eclectic rhythms and essential beats
White Noise: Lightning Strikes
Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record
Leonore Wheatley
Leonore Wheatley, singer with The Soundcarriers, Co-Pilot and International Teachers Of Pop, shares the key influences and inspirations that shaped her
Tangerine Dream ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’
Tangerine Dream had a big year in 1974 with the release of ‘Phaedra’ and their first UK tour. But let’s not forget their score for the Greek tragedy ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’ in Chichester
Dave Clarke ‘Wisdom To The Wise’
Dave Clarke talks about ‘Wisdom To The Wise’, one of the finest, hard-hitting cuts from his ‘Red’ series, and indeed from techno history
Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power
Dedicated to his late wife and former Low cohort, Mimi Parker, and made using his children’s drum machine and synths, Alan Sparhawk’s astonishing solo debut is both profound and propulsive
Reviews
Broadcast ‘Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006’ (Warp)
The Final Curtain
Watching Trees Festival 2024
How Optimo’s Rural Idyll Came Into Being “We’re always thinking about ways to bring that energy, that oneness,…
Nala Sinephro ‘Endlessness’ (Warp)
Space Is The Place
Live Sessions
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
ESLS015 – Hifi Sean & David McAlmont
Men and machines in perfect harmony in the ES studio
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Video: CURRENTMOODGIRL
Frog-related weirdness from Manchester’s sound mangler “‘Frogspawn’ is a playful reminder of all things small, cute and silly that…
LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)
Laika should be much better known than they are…
Marc Hurtado
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Marc Hurtado
Hemlock Ernst & Icky Reels
Future Islands crooner dons rap cap
Brokenchord
Trippy Lithuanian underground sounds
Renu
Cosmic electronica from percussive talent
Custard Bazookas
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are Assumptions about electronic music
Camera Picture
Black Midi man delves into ambience
Toso Toso
NY four-piece push all the right buttons
Goat
One of the anonymous members of Goat takes on this month’s quick-fire questions