Boris Blank ‘Electrified’ (Blank Media)
A crowd-funded collection of career-spanning soundscapes from the mercurial Swiss electronic pioneer
Black Strobe ‘Godforsaken Roads’ (Blackstrobe)
Brylcreem and analogue synths. And you don’t get to hear those words in the same sentence very often
Aphex Twin ‘Syro’ (Warp)
You can keep your Kate Bush. The first new Aphex Twin album for more than a decade is the real musical event of the year
Various Artists ’12”/80s New Wave/12”/80s Chilled’ (Universal Music)
Two massive collections of 12-inch remixes from the 1980s – and there’s plenty of tasty stuff as well as the odd clanger
Yelle: Breton Beats
Spellbinding electropop, you say? You’d better put us through to our French cousins tout de suite. Picking up the phone in Brittany is Julie Budet, aka Yelle, who makes a welcome return with her latest set of guaranteed floorfillers
Tim Gane: Sky High
Stereolab man Tim Gane has spent the last few months trawling through the archives of Sky Records, the quintessential late-phase krautrock label. The result is ‘Kollection 01’, the first in an exciting new series of German music compilation albums
Simian Mobile Disco: News Of The Whorl
The ever-inventive Simian Mobile Disco make a welcome return with a new long-player and this time they’ve gone all ambient. In a desert. With bikers
ROC: For those about to ROC
Few bands survive being swallowed whole by the music industry, but south London’s ever-inventive sonic tinkerers ROC are thankfully made of sterner stuff
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Razzle Dazzle
Commercial failures, artistic triumphs and overdue celebrations… On the eve of two exclusive live shows, Andy McCluskey discusses ‘Dazzle Ships’, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s often overlooked 1983 masterpiece
David Stubbs: Future Days
Electronic Sound contributor and author David Stubbs’ book ‘Future Days’ is the first comprehensive overview of the krautrock scene and the cultural and socio-political atmosphere from which it came. In this exclusive excerpt, David discusses Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ and places it in the wider context of its day