Squarepusher: Scarf Ace

For three decades, Squarepusher has warped expectations of electronic music. Now, with the release of his extraordinary ‘Kammerkonzert’, Tom Jenkinson delivers a one-man chamber opus...

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Erasure with rave licks? Orbital with pop flecks? it’s an unlikely collaboration on the face of it, but these two electronic music behemoths have served up a proper treat in the form of Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll’s ‘2Square’. We pop round to Vince’s Brooklyn studio to discover more, while Paul joins in the conversation on Skype

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Michael Rother and Vittoria Maccabruni: The Light Fantastic

byJoe Banks

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

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8 minute read

Squarepusher: Push It

byFat Roland

From blind machine fury to rip-roaring bass monsters and ear-bending synthesis, Tom Jenkinson is always pushing boundaries, no matter what shape. With the release of a new album, we find him in reflective mood… can it be that Squarepusher is mellowing?

LLong Reads

15 minute read

1975: Kernkraftwerk The Nuclear Powerplant

byMark Roland

Forty years since the release of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radio-Activity’, we take a close look the dark horse of the five-album masterwork the band produced between 1974 and 1981

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9 minute read

Delia Derbyshire: the Delian mythic mode

byDr David Butler

The myth of Delia Derbyshire grows by the year, but her archive reveals that all is not quite as it seems, offering a fascinating insight into her sound-obsessed childhood and her work after leaving the radiophonic workshop

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12 minute read

Planet Mu: Music Sounds Better With Mμ

byMat Smith

Start blowing up the birthday party balloons. Planet Mu is 20 years old. That’s 20 years as one of the most consistently innovative and interesting electronic music labels in the world. And Mike Paradinas, full-time company boss and sometime μ-ZIQ man, is celebrating in style. Well, he would be if he had the time