Crammed Discs: Measure of the Man

Crammed Discs’ avant-garde ‘Made To Measure’ series has recently reactivated to serve up reissued classics as well as new releases. We meet Crammed boss Marc Hollander and some of the Belgian label’s always idiosyncratic artists

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Jeremy Allen

Bruise Blood: Cuts Deep

byFat Roland

The debut solo project from Teeth Of The Sea’s Mike Bourne, Bruise Blood deals in heaving electronics and dirty beats. Dancey yet abyssal, disorienting yet immersive, resistance is futile – prepare to be pulled under

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Benge: (Re)Benge Of The Nerds

byMark Roland

Benge, the synth-meister behind some of the best electronic music of the last decade – from John Foxx And The Maths to Wrangler and Blancmange – now has his own must-see television show, ‘The Memetune Programme’. There’s even an annual to go with it…

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Richard Fearless: Facing Up

byStephen Dalton

On Death In Vegas’ first album in nine years, Richard Fearless channels grief, memory and raw emotion into visceral electronics – all caustic rave energy and fractured beauty.

LLong Reads

9 minute read

ACR: 24-Hour Party People

byClaire Francis

Still going strong after four decades, A Certain Ratio modestly put their longevity down to lack of fame. Their new album, ‘ACR Loco’, which fuses many of their influences throughout those years, says otherwise

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Janet Beat: Dammit, Janet!

byBob Fischer

From wartime bombings to the creaking of tree bark, Janet Beat has always been fascinated by sound. Now in her 80s, this contemporary of Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire is finally being recognised for her pioneering electronic work

LLong Reads

12 minute read

Berlin after Bowie: Alexander Hacke, Mick Harvey, Simon Bonney

byDavid Stubbs

“It was a fact of life as a little kid,” recalls Alexander Hacke, musician, producer, filmmaker and long-time Einstürzende Neubauten member, born and raised in Berlin and a major participant in the city’s post-punk, pre-rave scene in the 1980s. “I’d go out on the street and play, go around one more corner, and there would be a wall.”