Françoise Cactus

byJeremy Allen
November 11, 2021

Anti-diva and all-round creative polymath, Stereo Total’s late Françoise Cactus caused something of a rumpus when, in 2004, she exhibited a life-size woollen sex doll… yup, you read that right

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Amnesia, Ibiza

byHelen Donlan

Steeped in history, there’s more to Ibiza’s legendary Amnesia club than meets the eye

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The Brain, Wardour Street, London

byBen Willmott

Opening in the late 80s, The Brain on London’s Wardour Street championed pretty much an entire generation of DJs and electronic live acts. Co-founder Sean Mclusky tells the club’s incredible tale

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PAN SONIC

byRobin Rimbaud

It’s 1994, in a Brixton backstreet club, a bunch of Finnish musicians are making their London debut with a live set that will lay the foundations for PAN SONIC, one of electronica’s most revered acts

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Decades on from a time when you couldn’t simply produce a film soundtrack on a laptop, sound design supervisor Michael Fremer reflects on what it was like to work with composer Wendy Carlos for Disney’s 1982 sci-fi action-adventure, ‘Tron’

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The 1980s Madrid Electronic Music Scene

byDavid Pollock

In 1980s Madrid, La Movida Madrileña, a hedonistic counterculture movement emerged in the wake of Franco’s death. With it came a wave of electronic music that is seeing a reappraisal four decades on

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Léon Theremin

byRobert Webb

We’re setting the dials all the way back to 1927, to the Royal Albert Hall in London, where a packed audience gathered on a chilly winter’s evening to witness Russian scientist Léon Theremin using his remarkable black box to create “Music from the Ether”

Françoise Cactus

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Jeremy Allen

Amnesia, Ibiza

The Brain, Wardour Street, London

PAN SONIC

Tron

The 1980s Madrid Electronic Music Scene

Léon Theremin

The Early Days Of The Minimoog

O Yuki Conjugate

Graham Crabb ‘Def Con One’

Pepe Deluxé: Cabinet of Curiosities

Miki Yui: Deep Listening

Futurama: Ten Days In A Black Hole

Decisive Pink: Pink Sunshine

Ladytron: ’Tron and On and On

Françoise Cactus

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