Nightmares On Wax
Smokers Delight – 25th Anniversary Edition
The Big Chill
Established in 1988, The Orb were instrumental in a scene whose ripples are still very much felt on these pages today. Where did it all start, and how has it come to be such a vital part of our world? What you need is a potted history of chill-out…
Steve Hillage: All Systems Go
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
808 State: State of the Nation
Graham Massey and Andrew Barker talk Rolands, Manchester, Tony Wilson, Pete Waterman, Cash Generator, and selling pop records by mistakeÂ
Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval talks us through her formative influences, taking in 90s dance, death metal, John Carpenter and flying synth sounds along the wayÂ
YACHT: Sail Of The Century
The ever-inventive YACHT used AI to deconstruct their entire back catalogue and then painstakingly put the whole lot back together to create ‘Chain Tripping’, an album of the year contender that has to be heard to be believed
Little Snake
Head-over-heels beat-fuelled space jazz
Elizabete Balcus
Latvian electronica + fruit and veg
A Certain Ratio ‘ACR:BOX’ (Mute)
Given that Factory Records svengali Tony Wilson made it his mission to establish Manchester as centre of the…
Ultramarine: Mirror, signal, manoeuvre
Even on their 1990 debut, Essex’s Ultramarine were ahead of the game. their new ‘Signals In space’ album is yet another evolution, drawing on their love of field recordings, post-rock and house music…