Tom Hang
Experimental alter Ego-tronica
Scanner: Bop Til You Eavesdrop
His voyeuristic 1995 ‘Mass Observation’ album broke all the rules and put Scanner on electronica’s top table. Some two decades down the line he’s still pushing at the edges. Robin Rimbaud talks life, the universe and almost everything…
Organ Reframed: A Fine Set of Pipes
Organs belong in cold churches booming out ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, right? With her Organ Reframed festival at London’s Union Chapel, Claire M Singer has a better use for these grand old instruments
Steve Cobby: One-Man Band
From The Shedio, his Kingston-Upon-Hull home studio, Steve Cobby runs a cottage industry that, via his own Declassé imprint, pings near-perfect musical salvos into the world with a very pleasing regularity
ILK
Adventurous found sound explorers
James Lavelle
Founder of the seminal Mo’Wax label, art curator and the man from UNKLE, James Lavelle shares a few of his favourite formative inspirations
Jane Weaver: Inside The Jane Brain
Having dabbled with electronics previously, Jane Weaver has gone the whole hog on her new album and fully embraced the synthy goodness. We discover the thinking behind her new winning formula…
Radiophonic Workshop ‘Burials In Several Earths’ (Room 13)
Earthly Delights
L Pierre: Vinyl Countdown
Arab Strap’s Aiden Moffat retires his L Pierre side project with a fourth album, a vinyl-only release with no sleeve that samples a 1948 Mendelssohn concerto…
Blanck Mass: The Power of Music
Fuck Button Benjamin John Power has been cooking up a potent brew as Blanck Mass. With his new album, ‘World Eater’, the formula is spot on. what’s he throwing in that musical pot? Read on…