Death and Vanilla: A Flicker Of Hope

byWill Salmon
March 9, 2023

Reinvigorated after a difficult few years in the wilderness, Swedish trio Death and Vanilla are back with a new album, a more focused pop sensibility, and a renewed sense of optimism

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He started his career buying vintage synths from Detroit pawn shops and became a key member of Richie Hawtin’s Minus family. But as his latest album proves, Marc Houle is every bit the techno maverick

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9 minute read

Slovenia: Find Me In The Damp Basement*

byJasa Buzinel

A special report from Ljubljana on electronic music in Slovenia, a country with an exciting and thriving scene headed up by Laibach, but boasting a host of less-celebrated bands, producers, labels and more

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10 minute read

Hauschka and Max Richter: “Music is a beautiful thing to spend your time doing”

byPush

When two of the world’s finest contemporary composers get together for a chat, best leave them to it

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14 minute read

Doug McKechnie: The Catalytic Agent

byPush

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

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4 minute read

We Are The Robots: The Roboticisation of Kraftwerk

byMark Roland

Their transition from arty hippies to electronic music’s most famous robots would appear to be more of a masterstoke than first meets the eye

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6 minute read

I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

byStephen Dalton

As if creating a spot-on retro horror flick soundtrack isn’t enough, los Angeles-based I Speak Machine have made the film to go with it. ‘Zombies 1985’ even stars Gary Numan’s kids…

Death and Vanilla: A Flicker Of Hope

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Will Salmon

Marc Houle: Techno Outsider

Slovenia: Find Me In The Damp Basement*

Hauschka and Max Richter: “Music is a beautiful thing to spend your time doing”

Doug McKechnie: The Catalytic Agent

We Are The Robots: The Roboticisation of Kraftwerk

I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

The RAH Band ‘The Crunch’

Dave Ball

Adrian Sherwood

OMD: Stepping Up

Keigo Oyamada, aka Cornelius,

Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy

Miki Yui: Deep Listening

Devo: In The Beginning Was The End… 50 years of De-Evolution

Death and Vanilla: A Flicker Of Hope

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