Soft Cell: Cell Mates

Splitting up, getting back together (twice), a farewell gig that wasn’t quite goodbye… and now Soft Cell are making another welcome return. Marc Almond and Dave Ball remain as thick as thieves and ‘Happiness Not Included’, their first album for 20 years, shows why the duo are still the undisputed kings of twisted synthpop

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Peaches: Wet Wet Wet

byStephen Dalton

Riotously bawdy and uncompromising, Peaches is no stranger to radical provocation or controversy. Her first album in 11 years, ‘No Lube So Rude’, doubles down on that hardcore trajectory to louder, filthier and more joyously confrontational extremes

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5 minute read

Mad Men: Synth Magazine Advertising

byDick Martini

Ah, the far off days of tempting magazine adverts selling new-fangled synthesisers. We take a trip through some of the very best. They don’t make ’em like this anymore… which is probably just as well

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9 minute read

Richard H Kirk: Drop The H-Bomb

byDavid Stubbs

Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk serves up a raft of his solo work stretching back to 1974. Brace yourself for not one but two mind-boggling boxsets collections…

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9 minute read

Rodney Cromwell: Warts And All

byBob Fischer

Adam Cresswell is Rodney Cromwell. Previously, he’s been Arthur from Arthur And Martha, a founder member of Saloon, and a man whose life was changed by a shattered jar of pickled onions

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8 minute read

Steve Hillage: All Systems Go

byBen Willmott

Depending on your vintage, you’ll know him from Gong, or as the big cheese of The Steve Hillage Band, or maybe he’s arch Orb collaborator and System 7 kingpin. As a boxset of Gong’s Virgin years emerges, we enjoy a free-range chat with the multi-faceted Steve Hillage

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9 minute read

The 30 must-hear cult electronic soundtracks

bySpencer Hickman

“I am not a soundtrack expert, I’m just a guy who loves music and happens to love film scores,” says Spencer Hickman, whose Death Waltz label specialises in beautiful vinyl reissues of cult film soundtracks. “This isn’t a definitive list, it’s just a list of soundtracks I like and you should maybe check out. Although there are a lot of classics, hopefully there are a few that you are not familiar with. Anyway, dig in and enjoy…”