Jane Weaver: Pop Goes The Weaver

byBen Willmott
March 18, 2021

Unashamedly pop for pop’s sake, ‘Flock’ is the album that songwriter, composer and “sound carrier” Jane Weaver has always wanted to make

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Having released a plethora of krautrock reissues and a stack of experimental/contemporary German music over the last two decades, Bureau B founder Gunther Buskies looks back at some of the key labels from krautrock’s formative era

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Gogo Penguin: Unelectronic Sound

byMat Smith

With just three instruments between them, how is that Manchester’s Gogo Penguin sound so familiar? We lift the lid on their jazz-like exterior and find out how they do live electronica… with no electronics

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LA Priest: Mapping The Gene Ohms

byMatt Parker

Sam Eastgate reveals how paranoid lizards and an addiction to moss, as well as a homemade “human drum machine” called GENE, have all fed into his latest LA Priest record

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Tape Loops: The Splice Is Right

byMark Roland

Once upon a time, audio tape was so ubiquitous that most households had enough of the stuff to wrap around several football pitches. Now it’s an obsolete curio of a sonically explosive era. Loop back with us as we follow the Möbius strip of sound itself from Victorian Paris to a vast subterranean maze

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Der Plan: We are the Robots

byJeremy Allen

Forget Kraftwerk doing it for one song, in the late 1980s, fellow Düsseldorf outfit Der Plan came up with a crackpot scheme to completely replace themselves with robots…

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