1980s New York
Our esteemed columnist has been unusually quiet of late. And then, like magic, up he pops up with news of his exploits… it’s quite a tale, as you’d expect
A-TON
Location: Berlin Est: 2016
Nik Colk Void
Factory Floor’s Nik Colk Void shares the first and last records she bought and the one sHe always reaches for in an emergency…
Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)
Few music discovery anecdotes start with “I was rugby tackled by a man in a cinema because he liked my T-shirt”, but discovering Lancashire oddballs Element starts like that for me.
Craig Hammond
Sir-Vere frontman Craig Hammond assumes the position as we plug in the quick question machine
Yazoo ‘Four Pieces’ (Mute) + Soft Cell ‘Keychains & Snowstorms’ (UMC)
Only you… oh, and you
Acid Revival: Long Live The Squelch
Of late, it’s not just Paranoid London who are reviving the squirming electronic funk of the acid sound. The underground is teeming with producers, DJs and events powered by the 303…
Acid: In The Theatre Of Madness
In the hands of a small group of Chicago musicians and producers a little silver box created the squelch for Acid House and sparked the revolutionary illegal rave scene that followed soon after
808 State: State of the Nation
Graham Massey and Andrew Barker talk Rolands, Manchester, Tony Wilson, Pete Waterman, Cash Generator, and selling pop records by mistake
Ombrelle Concrète
Location: Kent/London Est: 2019