Aho Ssan: Root Cause

French producer Aho Ssan makes stunning experimental music, drawing a host of zeitgeisty contributors into his orbit. No wonder his new work ‘Rhizomes’ reads like a who’s who of contemporary underground electronica

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Claire Francis

Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla Crown

bySian Pattenden

Rising from the ashes of Lush and Piroshka, Miki Berenyi Trio’s shimmering dreampop drifts enticingly between melancholy and euphoria. IT’S deliciously hazy, shoegazey, a little bit electronic and utterly mesmeric

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Telefis: Town to Town

byBen Willmott

First meeting in Dublin during the 1980s, Microdisney’s Cathal Coughlan and uber-producer Jacknife Lee have recently reconnected. Working via a musical trans-Atlantic hook-up their new album as Telefís is a real cracker

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9 minute read

Jane In Palma: Phoenix Days

byBen Willmott

Julian Smith began his Jane In Palma project after a cataclysmic event turned his life upside down in an instant. Six years and two albums on, he’s producing some of the most inventive electronica around

LLong Reads

18 minute read

Gary Numan: Up Close & Personal

byPush

Catching him backstage before one of his recent London shows, we enjoy a free-ranging and sometimes painfully honest conversation with Gary Numan, taking in his past, his present and his future. We discuss recordings old and new, his darkest lows and his wildest highs, love and marriage and the kids, his hopes and fears for the years to come, and a whole lot more besides…

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6 minute read

Klaus Schulze

byDavid Stubbs

Despite playing in iconic outfits Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, it’s his solo work and the solitude of creating it that fires the electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze. A true original, his new album is as vital today as it would have been yesterday… or tomorrow

LLong Reads

7 minute read

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Ice-Cold Thrillers

byMark Roland

Best keep an eye on Jóhann Jóhannsson, blink and it seems Iceland’s finest ups his game yet another notch. His ‘Arrival’ soundtrack was special, what can we expect from his work on the new ‘Blade Runner’ film due later this year?