Laibach: Ruffling Feathers

A band? An art project? A secret cabal of political provocateurs? Going about their subversive business for more than four decades, everything that this unique Slovenian collective does comes as a surprise. Absolutely everything. Brace yourselves as we are granted an audience with the entity that is Laibach

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Gary Numan: Telekonesis

byRob Fitzpatrick

Released in 1980, Gary Numan’s ‘Telekon’ album wasn’t just a stark, futuristic landmark of electronic music – it was the sound of a young man grappling with sudden, overwhelming fame

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11 minute read

Immersion: Re-Wired For Sound

byMat Smith

A new EP by Immersion finds Wire frontman Colin Newman and Minimal Compact basser Malka Spigel on sparkling form… but then this record has been over a decade and a half in the making

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21 minute read

Futurama: Ten Days In A Black Hole

byPush

Futurama was the ultimate gathering of the clans. The brainchild of leeds live promoter John Keenan, the legendary post-punk festival ran over two days every year from 1979 to 1983, with punks, goths, futurists and more...

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13 minute read

Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Band Of Brothers

byMark Roland

As you might expect from an afternoon with Roger Eno and Brian Eno, whose ’Mixing Colours’ album sees them working together as a duo for the first time, there’s plenty of talk of algorithms and double pendulums and sound worlds. And jokes.

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Peter Baumann: After Dark

byJeremy Allen

Tangerine Dream legend Peter Baumann knows a thing or two about cosmic voyages. The synth maestro’s latest solo album, ‘Nightfall’, is a masterwork of transcendent atmospherics, shapeshifting soundscapes and an eerie “sense of the beyond”

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9 minute read

Yacht: The Shipping Forecast

byMark Roland

Former DFA recording artists Yacht have their very own belief system. They have a manifesto too. Not only that, the Los Angeles outfit produce shiny electronic pop music with side orders of extraterrestrial intelligence and future gazing. And it really is as marvellous as that all sounds