Full Plunge
Last month saw the return of my Needs Must column after a gap of 18 years. And it was a blast. If that was a toe-dipping exercise to ease me back in, this time the aim is take the full plunge. So without further ado…
Zaflon
The new school of “chuck it all in and give it a good stir” drum ‘n’ tronica
Krakaur
Chilly downtempo beats upstate New York style
Connie Constance
Metropolitan mysticism and downtown dream pop
‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’
digs out another gem of early electronic music: ‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’, a demonstration disc of the monstrous RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer from 1955, on both 12-inch LP and seven-inch box set formats
Death In Vegas On ‘MTV Fashionably Loud’
It’s 1997 and guess who’s been invited to play on MTV’s leading catwalk-cum-rock concert crossover show? Only psychedelic big beat electro-grunge pioneers, Death In Vegas…
Nicolas Godin
Ex-Air man Nicolas Godin talks us through the often refined inspirations for ‘Contrepoint’, his new solo album
OMD ‘Enola Gay’
Looking back through the mists of time to 1980, Andy Mccluskey talks us through the making of OMD’s smash hit single. Synths out of a catalogue, a scandal with ‘Swap Shop’, Airfix models – it’s a tale that’s got it all
‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’
The late 1990s and early 2000s threw up a slew of Air-style ambient masterpieces – but Fragile State’s 2004 classic ‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’ was criminally overlooked. It may just well be the UK’s ‘Premiers Symptômes’ of the era
No More Nails
Our resident columnist is back from his stint at the Edinburgh Festival. We reckon you ought to be seeing him on ‘Mock The Week’ any day now. In the meantime, he’s demanding a pay rise and going on about Aphex Twin again