Features
Suzanne Ciani: Finding Suzanne Ciani
Since tracking down Suzanne Ciani, Finders Keepers have released more albums by the Buchla legend than in her entire career prior. Label boss Andy Votel gives us the rundown
DJ Kampire: Happy Kampire
Touring the globe with curated sets of African club music spanning the 1970s to the present day, East African DJ Kampire is a tastemaker extraordinaire, as her debut compilation so richly attests
Noël ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’
Written and produced by Ron and Russell Mael, but kiboshed by Richard Branson and the war on disco, Noël tells the story of her incredible lost classic, ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’
Miki Yui: Deep Listening
Miki Yui has produced a beguiling body of work rooted in elemental electronics and field recordings. She describes being shaped by the art and music of Düsseldorf, the influence of her late husband Klaus Dinger, and her recent conversion to modular synths
Molchat Doma: This Is Not My Beautiful House
Having moved from their native Minsk to LA, the fourth album from Belarusian post-punk/synthpop outfit Molchat Doma also marks an expansive and propulsive “technicolour reinvention” of their sound. Taut, moody, imposing and typically brutalist, it’s one heck of a gut punch
Propaganda: Wishful Thinking
German synth supremo Ralf Dörper invited classical percussionist Michael Mertens to join Propaganda in 1983. Their debut album, ‘A Secret Wish’, is still a dark-hearted classic, but the reunited pair are now looking to the future with a fresh incarnation of the outfit that made their names
Reviews
Nala Sinephro ‘Endlessness’ (Warp)
Space Is The Place
Molchat Doma ‘Belaya Polosa’ (Sacred Bones)
New Career In A New Town
Andrew Wasylyk And Tommy Perman ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ (Clay Pipe)
Beauty And The Beats
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
Recent
Evan Shornstein
Evan Shornstein, better-known as Photay, takes on this month’s quick-fire questions
Arsenal Mikebe
Dapper drummers take on the world
Loved-Up On Happy Pills
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are Looney Tunes
Tullis Rennie
This doctor is anything but academic
Strafe ‘Set It Off’
Steve Standard recalls the making of his haunting electro classic ‘Set It Off’, released under the name Strafe, which took 1980s New York by storm
Karl D’Silva
The new king of South Yorkshire
Theatre Of Disco
Sweeping through the forgotten corridors of music, Scott Blixen sets his sights on Theatre Of Disco
Bern The Gurn and Nina Walsh
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues with his adventures in sound. This month: Bern The Gurn and Nina Walsh
Pleasure Planet
New York electronicists bring the heaters
Alex Paterson’s Record Collection
Norwood, London, September 2022