Benefits: Friends With Benefits

Adi Newton (Clock DVA) and Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto) are electronic royalty. Steeped in “spectral dimensions and psychedelic radiophonics”, their second collaborative project as Soon is the sort of ambitious tour de force we’ve come to expect

In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”

Slightly odd and very groovy Belgian synthpoppers Telex are getting ready for a renaissance. Having enjoyed their first success in the late 1970s, they are digging into their back catalogue to reissue a collection of their many highlights. And no one is more surprised than the group themselves

Recorded in a Pisa living room rather than his Forst home studio where he’s worked for five decades, ‘As Long As The Light’, Michael Rother’s collaboration with partner Vittoria Maccabruni, fizzes with life

Mixing desk wizard David M Allen discusses his role in the making of what may well be one of the greatest synthpop albums of all time… and The Human League’s ‘Dare’