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Tunng: Night Tales and Dark Arts

Tunng are a band full of strange misfits. which is a good thing. It’s why the twinkling lights and long shadows of their new album, ‘songs you make at night’, sets it up as a proper contender for one of our records of the year
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Space: Magic Flying

It was one of the first electronic records to hit the charts all over the world. It launched the space disco genre and laid down a marker for synthpop. The story of Space and ‘Magic Fly’ is quite a tale too. take your protein pills and put your helmet on
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Soft Cell: Wave Goodbye

On the eve of their very last live show and with a mega 10-cd boxset in the shops, the one and only Dave Ball, Soft Cell’s other half, pulls up a pew and tells us a few tales from along the way…
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Orbital: Monster Sound

They’ve patched up their differenceS (again) and turned in a banger of a new album (as always) for which they enlisted the help of some morris dancers and Professor Brian Cox (like you do). You need to ask who? It can only be the brothers Hartnoll and the unstoppable Orbital
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Marc Cerrone ‘Supernature’

French producer extraordinaire Marc Cerrone Tells the tale behind the making of his stone-cold 1977 Space DISCO smash hit ‘Supernature’ (or for those of a certain age, the theme to the ‘Kenny Everett Video Show’)