Alan Vega: The Final Flourish

While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread

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Always striving to challenge the status quo, Swedish enigma and visionary Karin Dreijer does things very much on their own terms, artistically and musically. Here, they open up on electropop experimentation, identity politics and the “visceral confection” that is Fever Ray

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17 minute read

Autobahn: The Electronic Road Trip

byMark Roland

It’s 40 years since Kraftwerk released their “year zero” album, ‘Autobahn’. With the help of insiders Wolfgang Flür and Michael Rother, and qualified self-confessed Kraftwerk obsessives Daniel Miller and Andy Mccluskey, we examine this most crucial and enigmatic of electronic music landmarks

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4 minute read

KOGG: Spanner In The Works

byJeremy Allen

Driven by curiosity and playful improvisation, experimental duo KOGG fashion spanners, elastic bands, toy whistles, brass and broken piano keys into charming, wibbly-wobbly sonic sketches

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10 minute read

Robert Moog: Memory Moog

byNeil Mason

We all know him as Robert Moog, the godfather of the synthesiser, a man whose role in the history of electronic sound cannot be overStated. But to Michelle Moog-Koussa, he was plain old Dad, who helped her with her piano lessons, chopped wood for the fire, and liked gardening and canoeing and star gazing. Ahead of a new documentary about Bob Moog that Michelle is putting together for release next year, we get a fascinating and highly personal insight into the everyday life of a legend

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9 minute read

Ben Frost: Nature’s Requiem

bySharon O'Connell

Drawing on the ultrasonic sounds of the Amazon rainforest, the new album by Australian-Icelandic producer Ben Frost sees him collaging environmental recordings and complex electronics to stunning cinematic effect

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10 minute read

Sleaford Mods: X-Cess All Areas

bySian Pattenden

Sleaford Mods return with their most ambitious, sharp-tongued set yet, AS ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ cranks up fury and vivid sonics into a caustic portrait of cultural freefall and catharsis. They’re loud, angry and utterly irresistible