John Keenan
We Are heading back to the post-punk daze of the Futurama Festival, with promoter John Keenan telling tales of flooded venues and vomiting singers
Poème électronique
60 years ago, Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking ‘Poème électronique’ made its debut at the Brussels world’s fair. our resident archivist casts a beady ear over its often overlooked first vinyl release
The Long Now
Post-everything footy operatics
Somni
Dreamy californian sampleadelica
International Teachers Of Pop
Moonlandingz’ northern disco side line
Craven Faults
Elusive Yorkshire Ambient Krautrock
Ólafur Arnalds
Neoclassical big cheese ÓlAfur Arnalds, shares the first and last records he bought and the one he reaches for in an emergency
Max Richter ‘The Blue Notebooks’
Max Richter on the making of 2004’s ‘The Blue Notebooks’, his meditative masterwork of “quiet protest”
1988
If our columnist had a time machine and went to 1988 and we pulled the plug out, accidentally, it would only take him 30 years to walk home from the past. Oh look, here he comes now…
Concrète tapes
Location: Preston, Lancashire Est: 2015