Features
Fluke: Hybrid Electric
A new compilation of re-recorded Fluke classics is a timely reminder of their place in UK dance music history
KOGG: Spanner In The Works
Driven by curiosity and playful improvisation, experimental duo KOGG fashion spanners, elastic bands, toy whistles, brass and broken piano keys into charming, wibbly-wobbly sonic sketches
La Sécurité: Bingo-Master’s Break-Out!
La Sécurité are the latest bilingual post-punk/guitar ’n’ synth sensation to emerge from Canada, With a new album ‘Bingo!’ on Bella Union
Mouse On Mars & Lee “Scratch” Perry: Spatial Awareness
What happens when the playful IDM of Mouse On Mars collides with the cosmic dub of Lee “Scratch” Perry? A freewheeling brew of krautrock propulsion, avant-jazz and burbling electronics. Prepare for total immersion
Luke Vibert: Socket To Me
After almost 15 years, Luke Vibert revives his enigmatic Plug alias with ‘Variety Magic’, a curated stockpile of unreleased, mid-90s jungle and drum ’n’ bass – left-field cuts built for club pressure and deep listening
Mark Jenkin: The Analogue Auteur
Filmmaker Mark Jenkin takes a handmade approach to his features, shooting on clockwork cameras and creating his own electronic scores with a tape loop designed by Brian Eno
Reviews
Various Artists ‘The Silent Harvest Volume 1’ (Folk Police)
Meadow Modulations
Boards Of Canada ‘Inferno’ (Warp)
Red Hot Radio
News
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.
It’s All About Vinyl Episode 15
This episode Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push talk about Scritti Politti, and the cover star of Electronic Sound Green Gartside.
It’s All About Vinyl Episode 14
Nirvana feedback, a 60s psyche legend, a tatty copy of the Beatles’ first US LP
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
Shadowlands 2027
New International Music Festival in the historic city of Canterbury
Chimp Hardy
Beastly beats from Berlin
Cold Blow
Location: London / Helsinki Est: 2018
Department S ‘Sub-Stance’ (Ltm, 2003)
“After three great singles, you just expect an album…”
‘A Love From Outer Space’ AR Kane
Rudy Tambala tells the tale behind AR Kane’s crown jewel, ‘A Love From Outer Space’, the dreampop-induced house track from the duo’s 1989 album ‘i’, which still sounds totally out of this world
Dealers Of God
Concept albums and conspiracies merge
Jacqui Hunt
Australian music icon Jacqui Hunt takes on this month’s quick-fire questions
Custard-Mad Sentient Hoover
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are the ‘Teletubbies’
Pete Bingham
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Pete Bingham
Taj Mahal Travellers
Sweeping the forgotten corridors of music, this month Scott Blixen turns his attention to the Taj Mahal Travellers
Richard Pinhas
Hot on the heels of two key Heldon reissues, founder and guitarist Richard Pinhas pinpoints the sounds and inspirations that powered the band’s mind-expanding prog/early synth experiments
Martin Brugger
Producer and Squama co-founder Martin Brugger on his first and last albums, and one he always returns to