Andy Bell and Timothy Clerkin: Connection Is Made

Having initially met at Andrew Weatherall’s funeral, GLOK’s Andy Bell and producer Timothy Clerkin have now collaborated on ‘Alliance’, a no-holds-barred album that embraces wobbly synths, rave bangers and trippy psych

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Berlin after Bowie: Alexander Hacke, Mick Harvey, Simon Bonney

byDavid Stubbs

“It was a fact of life as a little kid,” recalls Alexander Hacke, musician, producer, filmmaker and long-time Einstürzende Neubauten member, born and raised in Berlin and a major participant in the city’s post-punk, pre-rave scene in the 1980s. “I’d go out on the street and play, go around one more corner, and there would be a wall.”

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Tristan Perich: Pattern Recognition

byJonathan Wright

American composer and sound artist Tristan Perich tells us about using 1-bit electronics, working with organ virtuoso James McVinnie, and the importance of patterns in making music

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8 minute read

Hannah Peel: Kicking Brass

byFat Roland

Donning her Mary Casio alter ego, Hannah Peel pairs up analogue synths with a full brass band and plots an interplanetary musical adventure to the stars

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6 minute read

Tape Loops: The Splice Is Right

byMark Roland

Once upon a time, audio tape was so ubiquitous that most households had enough of the stuff to wrap around several football pitches. Now it’s an obsolete curio of a sonically explosive era. Loop back with us as we follow the Möbius strip of sound itself from Victorian Paris to a vast subterranean maze

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7 minute read

Pixx: X Marks the Spot

bySophie Little

Stepping out of stage school and into a record deal with 4AD isn’t the usual route for a BRIT School graduate, but Pixx isn’t your usual sort of recording artist…

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MJ Cole: Key Player

byBen Willmott

You will most likely know the name MJ Cole from his dominance of the 1990s garage scene. His latest solo outing, ‘Madrugada’, takes him back to his roots, but not in the way you might think