Features
Futurama: Ten Days In A Black Hole
Futurama was the ultimate gathering of the clans. The brainchild of leeds live promoter John Keenan, the legendary post-punk festival ran over two days every year from 1979 to 1983, with punks, goths, futurists and more…
Clock DVA: Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick… Boom!
They’re often mentioned alongside Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League, but their story isn’t as well known as those of their Sheffield contemporaries…welcome to the weird and wild world of Clock DVA
Alan Vega: The Final Flourish
While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread
Roger Powell ‘Air Pocket’ (Bearsville, 1980)
“The window is about 20 years, more or less. That’s the point where that obscure band you loved is mostly forgotten about…”
Daft Punk, Coachella, 2006
Two decades after the fact, we explore Daft Punk’s totemic pyramid show which changed the face of electronic music forever
Jimi Tenor
Hot on the heels of his recent ‘Selenites, Selenites!’ album, Finnish composer and musician Jimi Tenor traces the key inspirations behind his very singular sonic universe
Reviews
Nathan Fake ‘Evaporator’ (Infiné)
Something In The Air
Craven Faults ‘Sidings’ (The Leaf Label)
Do The Locomotion
Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Tranquilizer’ (Warp)
Sample Relics
News
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7134
ES7134 seven-inch features Clock DVA
It’s All About Vinyl Episode 03
In episode three of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founders Mark Roland and Push delve into…
It’s All About Vinyl – Episode 02
More chat from ES founders Mark Roland and Push In episode two of It’s All About Vinyl, music…
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
Annie Hogan
Composer, musician and “Queen Goth” Annie Hogan takes on this month’s quick- fire question machine
‘Relaxez-Vous’
Resident archivist Jack Dangers is in a state of ondes Martenot-induced bliss thanks to ‘Relaxez-Vous’, a French LP designed to do just that
Collapsing Drums
Location: London/Bristol Est: 2020
Nu Vision
Post-punkers pen debut for EBM pals
Annie Leeth
Stateside producer does things her way
Night Ritualz
San Antonio synth-punk artist Night Ritualz on his first and last albums, and an all-time favourite
Chronicles Of The Residuum
Destruction never sounded so good
Debbie Sings
Steam room techno-gurn, anyone?
Voka Gentle: Domestic Unrest
Fearlessly unpredictable, mercurial trio Voka Gentle blend left-field pop, folk and experimental sounds to sparkling effect
Alan Vega: Vega Voltage
Almost 10 years after Alan Vega’s death, we revisit Suicide’s incendiary frontman as a radical solo artist –……
UFO95
Brutalism goes four-to-the-floor
Curtain Twitcher: Peep Show
Meet the Appealingly analogue and quirkily kosmische female duo Curtain Twitcher – the new synth-toting sound of Sheffield