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
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…”
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
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
e.m.arson. : Burning Down The House
Field recordings, drones, tape loops, dreampop and mystery are the key ingredients for the startling debut album from sound artist e.m.arson. What is it that lights her fire?
Jah Wobble: Turn Off Jah Mind
The Beatles, but not as you know them. On ‘Mystic Liverpool’, legendary bassist Jah Wobble teams up with Tian Qiyi to warp the Fab Four’s most psychedelic moments into a swirl of duB, tripped-out textures and Eastern instrumentation
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
Tyondai Braxton
American composer and producer Tyondai Braxton on his first and last albums, and an all-time favourite
Lola Dutronic and Donna Summer
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Lola Dutronic and Donna Summer
Bathing Suits
Leeds electro-noisers reap havoc
Ladsclub
Brighton boys’ expressive synthpop
Spike
Film composer turns to pop
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
Cloud Studies
Scene stalwart fronts flawless shoegazers
Yottie
Psychogeography becomes glitch
Jolt
Industrial mayhem to shock your system
‘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’
Skupina
Location: Between Slovakia and Czechia Est: 2016