Air: Shoot For The Moon

Retro-futuristic, gorgeously languid, utterly irresistible – Air changed the sonic landscape almost overnight with the release of ‘Moon Safari’ in 1998. Taking a break from performing the album in full on a mammoth world tour, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin reflect on their robo-romantic masterpiece

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David Stubbs

Editors: Heavy Heavy Monster Sound

byJeremy Allen

With experimental noisenik Blanck Mass now fully ensconced in the ranks, Editors have gone bigger, deeper and darker into electro-industrial territory on their thrilling new long-player, ‘EBM’. Prepare to have your face melted…

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8 minute read

Mogwai: The Devil’s in the Detail

byDavid Pollock

Think you know what to expect from this lot? Think again, because over the last two decades a subtle sound evolution has been at work. We lift the lid on the secret electronic life of Mogwai

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15 minute read

’Close To The Noise Floor’: The Robots Speak

byMark Roland

There was no single unifying event for the formative UK electronica scene, no point when something suddenly clicked, no precise year zero moment. But there was a bunch of like-minded souls beavering away in what they thought was their own little void, unaware there were others just like them all over the country. We talk to seven of the artists featured on the ’Close To The Noise Floor’ box set and get their big bang stories

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14 minute read

Wolfgang Flür: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

byMark Roland

Seven years on from his last outing, the inimitable and irrepressible Wolfgang Flür has a new album in the racks. Recorded with the help of an army of fascinating guests, it’s called ‘Magazine 1’ and it’s an opportunity for us to talk robots, romance, pacifism, money, sheep, rubbery legs and, inevitably, Kraftwerk

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7 minute read

Karin Park: Nordic Noir

byDanny Turner

Electronic artists sometimes struggle to make their music work in a live setting. But not much-lauded electro-popster Karin Park, as our behind-the-scenes peek at the London show on her recent UK tour proves

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9 minute read

Clark: Genre Blender

byBen Murphy

On ‘Playground In A Lake’, Clark subverts his new-found classical licks with trademark dark electronic tricks. The resulting brew finds him treading fresh musical ground