Features
Demise Of Love: Love Unlimited
Producer Daniel Avery, Ghost Culture’s James Greenwood and Working Men’s Club frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant join forces as Demise Of Love – a synth-powered supergroup with a dark heart
Editions Mego: Mega Mego
Marking their 30th anniversary, pioneering Austrian label Editions Mego – formerly Mego – continue to thrive, carrying forward the fearless sonic legacy of visionary founder Peter Rehberg, who passed away in 2021
Peter Baumann: After Dark
Tangerine Dream legend Peter Baumann knows a thing or two about cosmic voyages. The synth maestro’s latest solo album, ‘Nightfall’, is a masterwork of transcendent atmospherics, shapeshifting soundscapes and an eerie “sense of the beyond”
Ultramarine : From Mundane To Magical
The “pastoral techno”, genre-blurring sound of Ultramarine has spanned 36 years. With the release of ‘Routine’, a newly……
Saint Etienne: When The Saints Go Marching Out
After 35 years, Saint Etienne have made their final album. The upbeat new collection ‘International’ will be the last instalment in a recording career that has been both thrillingly eclectic and warmly indebted to their love of classic pop. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs look back on three decades’ worth of highlights
The The ‘This Is The Day’
The The frontman Matt Johnson tells the tale of how the unforgettable ‘This Is The Day’ came to be
Reviews
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
“It’s as if I had a synth in my throat”
The vocoder. We all know it, we all love it. Here’s a great showcase of how expressive and…
Disiniblud
Underground power duo are kindred spirits
Weed420
Latin collective’s “HexD” electro collaging
Morgane Lhote
Hologram Teen’s Morgane Lhote takes on our quick-fire questions
Max Cooper
From the power of aesthetics to techno epiphanies, producer and multidisciplinary artist Max Cooper reveals his formative influences
Phia Sky
Premier Manc glitchcoreist takes flight
Social Climbers
Resident archivist Jack Dangers revisits the New York no wave scene to explore Social Climbers and their one-off, self-titled 1981 album
Handy with a Pickaxe
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (well, as far as we can tell): Parenthood
Marina Moore
In-demand violinist with Roxy links
O Yuki Conjugate
O Yuki Conjugate have just released a superb vault of “early works of charming insignificance”. So it’s about time we returned to the roots of Nottingham’s “dirty ambient” pioneers
Jake Stephenson
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Jake Stephenson
Yoga Nugraha Usmad
Nature calls for experimental ambienteur