Features
Bill Nelson ‘When The Birds Return’
Influenced by Afrika Bambaataa, West Yorkshire and a dusty old marimba bought from The Beatles, ‘When The Birds Return’ is a forgotten masterpiece by Bill Nelson
Ata Kak
In 1994, Yaw Atta-Owusu released a stone-cold classic under the alias of Ata Kak, but fewer than 50 people ever heard it. Or so he thought
Emma-Jean Thackray
Fresh from performing at this year’s End Of The Road festival, visionary producer and multi-instrumentalist Emma-Jean Thackray shares her influences, from the power of brass to accidentally finding Miles Davis
Fini Tribe: From Start To Fini
With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners
Sudan Archives: Feel The Power
Chicago and Detroit club sounds, global rhythms and experimental beats – Sudan Archives’ latest offering is perhaps her most revealing and playful to date
John Maus: The Maus That Roared
Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album
Reviews
Kathryn Joseph & Lomond Campbell
“I’m going to play lots of disgusting songs about fucking…”
Maps ‘Welcome To The Tudor Gate’ (Mute)
Screen Dreams
Soho Electronic Festival Review
A new one-day festival of modular and associated noises in the heart of Swinging London Across four venues…
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
GWENNO + QUINQUIS
Remix alert! Welsh-Cornish musician Gwenno and Breton producer QUINQUIS (aka Émilie Quinquis) are currently on tour across the…
Eno In Space!
Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno beam their new album into the dark matter
The Birth and Life of Beggars Banquet
Gary Numan, The Fall, Bauhaus, Gene Loves Jezebel and more interviewed in depth in new podcast You won’t…
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7130
ES7129 seven-inch features Gary Numan
Bricknasty
Irish experimentalists in their own world
Chump Wrecker
Darlington’s answer to The Prodigy
Black Tempest
Synthesist strikes gold with new collab
Anton Witter
Journeyman returns with aplomb
Spectacular Hallucinations
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell): Braaaains!
Helen Anahita Wilson
Nature calls for sonic researcher
Norman McLaren
Resident archivist Jack Dangers looks at a newly compiled collection of electronic works by Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren
Underground Resistance
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Underground Resistance