Kim Gordon: The Art Of Noise

Kim Gordon’s third solo offering is a sharp-edged jolt of hip hop, krautrock and fractured electronics, laced with dark humour and poetic unease – one heck of a sonic melting pot

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Sian Pattenden

Wax Trax! Records: Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

byMark Roland

‘Industrial accident: the story of Wax Trax! Records’ is a forthcoming documentary about… wait for it… Wax Trax! Records. It’s the story of one of the most exciting labels ever, an imprint that lodged its idiosyncratic brand of dark ‘n’ dirty electronic music deep into the American heartland

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15 minute read

An Article About Steven Wilson

byMark Roland

A limited edition (of one) boxset for £10,000. A can of Antarctic air for £500. A toilet roll for £200. A hole punch for £50. An album of electronic rock (or should that be rocktronica?) with 2021 written all over it. Enter the mighty strange world of studio perfectionist and cult phenomenon Steven Wilson

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9 minute read

Public Service Broadcasting’s: Soul Mining

byMat Smith

Recorded in one of the communities where it happened, Public Service Broadcasting’s absorbing ‘Every Valley’ album tells of the rise and fall of the Welsh mining industry through the eyes of those it affected most deeply

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8 minute read

The Pop Group: Agit-Future-Funkateers

byAndrew Woods

Since reforming in 2010, The Pop Group have gone about reinventing themselves fit for a musical journey into the 21st century. We join Mark Stewart at the controls…

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10 minute read

Hans-Joachim Roedelius: The Path of True Love

byJeremy Allen

German electronic colossus Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on the latest volume of his four-decade ‘Selbstportrait’ series of albums, his turbulent early life, and the love of a good woman

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4 minute read

Cold War Electronica: A For Armageddon

byBob Fischer

By the mid-1980s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was dominating British culture. Actor Reece Dinsdale and film editor John Cary look back at their contributions to two keystones of the Cold War aesthetic – ‘Threads’ and ‘When The Wind Blows’