Billy Nomates
Street-wise East Midlands no wave
Nitin Sawhney
Eclectic musical fusionist extraordinaire, Nitin Sawhney shares just a few of the influences that have shaped his world
Subexotic
Location: High Wycombe Est: 2010
TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)
Since you can’t peel back the YouTube algorithm, there’s no telling how we wound up staring at western Canada circa the mid-80s.
Ed Dowie
The silver-piped Ed Dowie pulls up a pew and gets ready to face down our quick-fire question machine
Japan ‘Quiet Life’ (BMG)
By the time post-punk’s dressed-down urban anxiety began to define the late 1970s zeitgeist, Japan had already taken a couple of unsuccessful shakes of the musical dice.
Late Works: Works in Progress
Offer a diverse bunch of musicians an assortment of instruments sculpted by artists, give them six hours to write and record a song, and what do you get? Meet Late Works and their ‘Of Noise’ LP
Clark: Genre Blender
On ‘Playground In A Lake’, Clark subverts his new-found classical licks with trademark dark electronic tricks. The resulting brew finds him treading fresh musical ground
Mouse on Mars: Artificial Intelligentsia
Academic proclamations, a virus-free voice instrument and a sci-fi aesthetic. ‘AAI’, the new album from Mouse On Mars, is just the sort of extreme boundary-pushing we’ve come to expect from one of electronic music’s most innovative duos
Jane Weaver: Pop Goes The Weaver
Unashamedly pop for pop’s sake, ‘Flock’ is the album that songwriter, composer and “sound carrier” Jane Weaver has always wanted to make