Grassroots: Round Table

byVel Ilic
January 9, 2025

Independent artists, label owners and other key figures discuss the current state of the grassroots electronic scene, from…

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Grassroots: Shoots And Leaves

byES Staff

101 of our current favourite underground electronic artists on Bandcamp, a list that we spent weeks trying to whittle down from a much bigger number

LLong Reads

20 minute read

Saint Etienne: When The Saints Go Marching Out

byBob Fischer

After 35 years, Saint Etienne have made their final album. The upbeat new collection ‘International’ will be the last instalment in a recording career that has been both thrillingly eclectic and warmly indebted to their love of classic pop. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs look back on three decades’ worth of highlights

FFeatures

7 minute read

Mary Epworth: “It Sounds Like a Robot’s Orgasm”

bySophie Little

With adventures a-plenty, including a spot of writer’s block, a roller coaster ride with a blockbusting podcast and a brush with Tony Visconti, Mary Epworth serves up an electronic doozie of album that no one saw coming

FFeatures

5 minute read

Vince Clarke: Vince Talks Mute

byMat Smith

The first time that Vince Clarke met Daniel Miller, the mute boss told him he didn’t like Depeche Mode’s demo tape. thankfully, the basildon boys got a second chance to impress, as the Depeche/Yazoo/Erasure keyboardist recalls in this first person account of his long and fruitful creative relationship with mute

FFeatures

8 minute read

Wolfgang Tillmans: In The Frame

byClaire Francis

Not only is Wolfgang Tillmans an award-winning photographer, he’s a pretty nifty electronic artist too, as his expansive second album ‘Build From Here’ – all pulsing synths, lush instrumentals, wistful ballads and clubby peaks – so ably attests

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