Ben Gilbert – Electronic Sound

8 minute read

Richard Sen: Richard The First

byBen Gilbert

The debut solo album from revered DJ and producer Richard Sen is a collection of questing cosmic house and disco that explores his ancestral roots and cements his reputation as a creative polymath. Strap in for one heck of a backstory…

UUnder The Influence

5 minute read

Bob Stanley

byBen Gilbert

Saint Etienne man Bob Stanley’s recent compilation ‘Fantastic Voyage’ documents the “echo chamber” effect that David Bowie’s Berlin recordings had on European music. No surprise then that Bowie is one of his key influences…

LLong Reads

13 minute read

Andrew Weatherall: “Getting a groove going in a cloud of smoke”

byBen Gilbert

The inside story of ‘Phonox Nights’, the forthcoming album from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh’s Woodleigh Research Facility project, which includes some of Weatherall’s final original recordings

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Das Koolies: Playing It Kool

byBen Gilbert

As the future-facing Das Koolies, Super Furry Animals’ Huw Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce explore a range of new sounds, concepts and artistic possibilities. Set the controls for a genre-bending vortex of electronic experimentalism

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Tim Dorney ‘Weekender’

byBen Gilbert

Flowered Up keyboard player Tim Dorney discusses the evolution and impact of the titanic ‘Weekender’, the band’s 1992 post-rave anthem

LLong Reads

11 minute read

The Final Frontier of Sound

byBen Gilbert

The fascination that electronic music artists and fans have with worlds beyond Earth is being deepened by technological advancements and renewed intergalactic ambitions. And we’re also now starting to get answers to a question that’s bugged many of us for a long time. What does space actually sound like?

LLong Reads

11 minute read

Aphex Twin: I Am The Music Maker

byBen Gilbert

The impact of ‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’ can’t be overstated. In the three decades since its initial release, it has minted the myth of Aphex Twin and redefined ambient, electronic and dance music. Richard D James, take a bow