Jane Weaver: Inside The Jane Brain
Having dabbled with electronics previously, Jane Weaver has gone the whole hog on her new album and fully embraced the synthy goodness. We discover the thinking behind her new winning formula…
In The Beginning There Was Industrial…
Industrial Music. The genre that swept around the world from Hull (Throbbing Gristle) and Düsseldorf (DAF) to Chicago (WAX TRAX!) and Brussels (Play It Again Sam), and then span out into EBM and New Beat and a whole lot more besides. We pick out the main protagonists for your listening pleasure…
Fully tooled
Fully tooled up with a big old bucket in one hand and a shiny audio shovel in the other, Kris Needs wanders off in search of lesser-spotted waxed wonders so you don’t have to get your hands dirty
Coda To Coda: Adventures In Modern Recording
Sound specialists who create subtle aural worlds that you might not notice if you weren’t listening for them, the work of the London-based Coda To Coda adorns TV shows, feature films, documentaries and exhibitions, including their inventive soundscape for The Science Museums’ ‘Robots’ show
Central Processing Unit
Location: Sheffield, UK Est: 2012
Abba: Thank You For The Music
ABBA may well be best known as Sweden’s worst-dressed but best-selling exporters of the 1970s, but Benny Andersson was also a bona fide synth pioneer. Don’t believe us? Read on…
The Wax That Matters…
David Stubbs puts on his ear protectors and picks out 10 crucial releases that no industrial music collection can be complete without
Vince Clarke
One half of Erasure, the one and only Vince Clarke reveals the first and last records he bought and the one he always reaches for in times of trouble
Robert Leiner ‘Visions Of The Past’ (Apollo, 1994)
It was quite remarkable. It still is.
Nic Offer
Nic Offer, !!! Frontman, assumes the position as we stock up our quick-fire question machine…