Dave Clarke ‘Wisdom To The Wise’

byIsaak Lewis-Smith
October 10, 2024

Dave Clarke talks about ‘Wisdom To The Wise’, one of the finest, hard-hitting cuts from his ‘Red’ series, and indeed from techno history

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Blue Pearl ‘Naked In The Rain’

byJeremy Allen

Youth talks us through the making of Blue Pearl’s 1990 floorfiller, ‘Naked In The Rain’

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Nik Kershaw ‘I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me’

byMat Smith

Synthpop legend Nik Kershaw talks us through his 1984 smash hit ‘I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me’

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Andy Oppenheimer ‘The Devil’s Dancers’

byBen Murphy

Andy Oppenheimer of Oppenheimer Analysis recalls the creation of their self-released 1982 synthpop gem ‘The Devil’s Dancers’, which became a cult classic and dancefloor favourite when it was reissued on Veronica Vasicka’s Minimal Wave label

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British Electric Foundation ‘Groove Thang’

byNeil Mason

You might know ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’ as a Heaven 17 song, but it started life as ‘Groove Thang’, an instrumental on BEF’s cassette-only debut, ‘Music For Stowaways’. Martyn Ware explains how the track liberated him from The Human League’s synth-only policy and helped him uncover a very rare talent

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