John Cage and Marcel Duchamp

In 1979, Oxfordshire schoolboys Ben Norland, Gerard Greenway and John Peacock formed experimental DIY trio Cultural Amnesia. They revisit the excitement of the early 80s “cassette culture” scene, 47 years on

Thomas Fehlmann recounts how The Orb managed a surprise return to the top of the UK charts… by way of a rejection from Jean-Michel Jarre

In 1994, Yaw Atta-Owusu released a stone-cold classic under the alias of Ata Kak, but fewer than 50 people ever heard it. Or so he thought

A muggy night at London’s Kilburn National Ballroom in September 1987, and German industrial-meisters Einstürzende Neubauten are headlining. The support act? 1970s glam rock entertainers Showaddywaddy. As one press report aptly put it, “Say WADD?”

As the boss of Independent Project Records & Press, Bruce Licher has released some brilliant albums and designed the sleeves of every single one of them, as well as producing countless postage stamps and the occasional flag