Tangerine Dream: Dream Factory

byStephen Dalton
March 10, 2022

When Edgar Froese changed cosmic address in 2015, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Tangerine Dream would follow suit. But working from his extensive archive of recordings, a new school of composers is keeping his flame very much alive

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Stephen Dalton

Black Warhols: Factory Reset

byBen Willmott

Alan Oldham’s new Black Warhols project finds the detroit techno don veering sharply into dubby trip hop, spectral shoegaze and industrial- grade electro-punk. Compelling stuff

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10 minute read

Creep Show: Mind The Gap

byDavid Stubbs

With their second album, ‘Yawning Abyss’, electronic supergroup Creep Show have truly surpassed themselves. From the power of vocoders to AI and “fucking things up”, John Grant, Stephen Mallinder, Benge and Phil Winter wax lyrical

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7 minute read

Tracey Thorn: On The Record

byBen Willmott

With a new album awash with electronic goodness, Tracey Thorn talks production Licks, girl band Picks and her teenage kicks

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9 minute read

Public Service Broadcasting’s: Soul Mining

byMat Smith

Recorded in one of the communities where it happened, Public Service Broadcasting’s absorbing ‘Every Valley’ album tells of the rise and fall of the Welsh mining industry through the eyes of those it affected most deeply

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9 minute read

Japan: From The Glamour To The Ether

byChris Roberts

Beautiful faces, fabulous hair, immaculate clothes. Laconic vocals, luxurious synths, sinuous rhythms. We are talking about Japan. Of course. To mark the release of a superb new biography, ‘Japan: A Foreign Place’, we chronicle the steady rise and sudden fall of one of the most perfect pop groups of all time

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9 minute read

Editors: Heavy Heavy Monster Sound

byJeremy Allen

With experimental noisenik Blanck Mass now fully ensconced in the ranks, Editors have gone bigger, deeper and darker into electro-industrial territory on their thrilling new long-player, ‘EBM’. Prepare to have your face melted…