I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive
As if creating a spot-on retro horror flick soundtrack isn’t enough, los Angeles-based I Speak Machine have made the film to go with it. ‘Zombies 1985’ even stars Gary Numan’s kids…
Blancmange: Tape That
Purloined from boxes of old cassettes and reel-to-reels, Blancmange are re-releasing their trio of 1980s albums – AND with bonus tracks galore. Let the original line-up of Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe entertain you
James Lavelle
Founder of the seminal Mo’Wax label, art curator and the man from UNKLE, James Lavelle shares a few of his favourite formative inspirations
14 Hour Technicolor Dream
The 14 hour Technicolor Dream event at London’s Alexandra Palace 50 years ago heralded the arrival of counterculture and sowed the seeds of the modern multimedia music experience
Pierre Henry
Musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry died in July (2017). Our resident archivist remembers his own encounter with the great man
Sonny Eriksson
Cyberbilly from the fourth dimension
Man Duo
1970s guitars meet 1980s synths
Heartless
Expert knob twiddling minimal techno
Crown Estate
Electropop-fuelled wall of sound
Irmin Schmidt ‘SPOON’
Can’s Irmin Schmidt reflects on the making of ‘SPOON’, the game-changing single from ‘Ege Bamyasi’