September 2024 – Electronic Sound

RReviews

10 minute read

Watching Trees Festival 2024

byES Staff

How Optimo’s Rural Idyll Came Into Being “We’re always thinking about ways to bring that energy, that oneness,…

PPulse

2 minute read

Tullis Rennie

byWill Stokes

This doctor is anything but academic

PPulse

2 minute read

Pleasure Planet

byImogen Bebb

New York electronicists bring the heaters

PPulse

2 minute read

Karl D’Silva

byPaul Clarke

The new king of South Yorkshire

PPulse

2 minute read

Arsenal Mikebe

byFat Roland

Dapper drummers take on the world

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Ron Geesin

byJo Kendall

Eccentric composer, sound architect and Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin charts the origins of his eclectic life and career

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Noël ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’

byJeremy Allen

Written and produced by Ron and Russell Mael, but kiboshed by Richard Branson and the war on disco, Noël tells the story of her incredible lost classic, ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’

NNeeds Must

2 minute read

Bern The Gurn and Nina Walsh

byKris Needs

Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues with his adventures in sound. This month: Bern The Gurn and Nina Walsh

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Strafe ‘Set It Off’

byJoe Silva

Steve Standard recalls the making of his haunting electro classic ‘Set It Off’, released under the name Strafe, which took 1980s New York by storm

EEnigmas

2 minute read

Theatre Of Disco

byScott Blixen

Sweeping through the forgotten corridors of music, Scott Blixen sets his sights on Theatre Of Disco