ESG ‘UFO’

byRob Harris
June 10, 2021

Renee Scroggins of South Bronx avant-funkers ESG on how they created ‘UFO’, their much-sampled track of 1980, as “something fun to dance to”

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Strafe ‘Set It Off’

byJoe Silva

Steve Standard recalls the making of his haunting electro classic ‘Set It Off’, released under the name Strafe, which took 1980s New York by storm

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A Guy Called Gerald ‘Voodoo Ray’

byNgaire Ruth

Gerald Simpson casts his mind back to 1988 to give us the inside story on the making of the seminal UK acid house track

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Peter Howell ‘Through A Glass Darkly’

byBob Fischer

In 1977, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Peter Howell recorded ‘Through A Glass Darkly’, a stunning album of synth-heavy prog rock. The jewel in the crown? ‘A Lyrical Adventure’, the 19-minute epic sprawling across the entirety of Side One

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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ‘Electricity’

byImogen Bebb

Andy McCluskey tells the fortuitous story behind Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s 1979 debut single ‘Electricity’, which Factory boss Tony Wilson so nearly chucked in the bin

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