November 2021 – Electronic Sound

PPulse

2 minute read

Non Square

byBen Willmott

Bass meets beats, Istanbul-style

PPulse

2 minute read

Dlina Volny

byClaire Francis

Brutalist eastern European synthpop

PPulse

1 minute read

Cosmic Neighbourhood

byNeil Mason

Otherworldly cartoon-strip radiophonica

PPulse

2 minute read

Bulp

byJames Thornhill

Slovakian electronic adventures

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Françoise Cactus

byJeremy Allen

Anti-diva and all-round creative polymath, Stereo Total’s late Françoise Cactus caused something of a rumpus when, in 2004, she exhibited a life-size woollen sex doll… yup, you read that right

UUnder The Influence

5 minute read

Richard Fearless

byDavid Pollock

Acid house, kosmische and the sounds of the city… Death In Vegas orchestrator Richard Fearless explains how all this and more have fed the creation of his latest album, ‘Future Rave Memory’

NNeeds Must

2 minute read

Miami Bass

byKris Needs

Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Miami Bass

LLandmarks

5 minute read

Humanoid ‘Stakker Humanoid’

byNeil Mason

The Future Sound Of London’s Brian Dougans talks us through the making of his breakthrough track, Humanoid’s 1988 acid classic ‘Stakker Humanoid’

TThe School of Electronic Music

2 minute read

The New Age Steppers

byJack Dangers

Resident archivist Jack Dangers celebrates the birth of industrial dub with Adrian Sherwood’s ‘The New Age Steppers’ album

LLong Reads

9 minute read

UNE: Never Mind The Balkans

byBob Fischer

As UNE, BBC Radio DJ Mark Radcliffe and beats-obsessed boffin Paul Langley pay homage to the war memorials of the former Yugoslavia with their third album, ‘Spomenik’