Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his further adventures in sound. This month: Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Various Artists ‘Lofts & Garages – Spring Records And The Birth Of Dance Music’ (BGP)
This marvellous collection drawn from Spring and its Posse offshoot is the sound of New York’s post-disco electronic……
Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘Hidari Ude No Yume’ (Wewantsounds)
Welcome reissue for overlooked early release
Richard J Birkin
Classical licks meet tech tricks
Tunng: Out Of This World
With ‘Dead Club’, Tunng have been on a journey that’s taken them beyond the album, beyond music, beyond life itself. Sam Genders and Becky Jacobs explain why they’re tackling death head on
The Lost Stoned Pandas: You Know When You’ve Been Panda’d
Pete Bingham, lynchpin of cosmic rockers Sendelica, has put together one of the weirdest musical collectives known to man. Or beast. Meet The Lost Stoned Pandas, whose members include Electronic Sound’s own space voyager, Panda Kris
Working Men’s Club: Working Wonders
Working Men’s Club are ambitious and angry. They swear a lot and they’ve got a song called ‘John Cooper Clarke’. It’s no wonder their debut album is being touted as one of the best records of 2020
Doug McKechnie: The Catalytic Agent
Starting in 1968, San Francisco musician Doug McKechnie was one of the very first people to play a Moog. Stand by for a remarkable story involving Hell’s Angels, FBI agents, concrete caverns and a pyramid of Mexican weed
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Starship Troupers
In the 1980s, a decade epitomised by big hair, outlandish outfits and believing your own press, nobody did it better than bizarro electro-rockers Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a band that viewed hyperbole as a badge of honour rather than an insult
IKLAN ‘Album Number 1’ (Soulpunk)
Even before we arrive at their gloriously diverse and eccentric productions, the background of Bristol/Edinburgh-based recording collective IKLAN……