Spöön Fazer: Causing a Stir

Not content on resting on her classically-trained laurels, Poppy Ackroyd takes inspiration from nature and revels in an unconventional approach to tickling the ivories

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

A rousing mid-point between punk and rave, the sound of LA underground trio Sextile is couched in exhilarating squall, dirty electro and Prodigy-shaped breaks

Marking 25 years at the coalface, ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ is The Prodigy’s first album since 2009’s ‘Invaders Must Die’ and finds them at their raging best. In this exclusive piece for Electronic Sound, the band’s official biographer takes us inside the camp with a personal account of his unfolding friendship with Liam Howlett and talks to the producer about the fury that remains at the heart of his sound