September 2018 – Electronic Sound

9 minute read

Tunng: Night Tales and Dark Arts

byFat Roland

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

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Space: Magic Flying

byMat Smith

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

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Soft Cell: Wave Goodbye

byNeil Mason

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…

TThe School of Electronic Music

3 minute read

Horacio Vaggione

byJack Dangers

Our resident archivist rummages through early electronica from South America, which, he reports, are thin on the ground due to water damage and warping thanks to the climate

PPulse

1 minute read

Vonica

byFinlay Milligan

Pan-European euphoric synthpop

PPulse

2 minute read

Sarah Davachi

byJames Thornhill

Canadian highbrow ambience

PPulse

2 minute read

Big Lad

byNeil Mason

Consider sonic warfare waged

PPulse

1 minute read

Agar Agar

byCarl Griffin

Elegant Italo-flavour synthpop

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Orbital: Monster Sound

byStephen Dalton

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

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Marc Cerrone ‘Supernature’

byNeil Mason

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’)