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Finiflex: The Re-Flex

By anyone’s standards, 22 years is a while. As their new album ‘Suilven’ appears over the horizon, John Vick and Davie Miller explain why it’s taken the best part of two decades to morph from Finitribe to Finiflex
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Oneohtrix Point Never : Straw Dog

Films played quite a role in the making of the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, ‘Age Of’. Recording alone in a rented a house on the hill that freaked the bejesus out him at night, Daniel Lapotin talks Kubrick, harpsichords, alien regression and, erm, ‘The Great Whatsit’…
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Daniel Figgis: Meat and greet

Maybe he was in Virgin Prunes and the lynchpin of the Princess Tinymeat offshoot, or maybe he wasn’t. Discover how the enigmatic Daniel Figgis is still crafting beguiling music and bewildering audiences today, thank goodness
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Tangerine Dream: Guiding Lights

When Edgar Froese died in January 2015, he didn’t just leave behind one almighty legacy. He also put in place the means for Tangerine Dream to carry on after his sudden “change of cosmic address”. Let Ulrich Schnauss, who Froese brought into the band in 2014, explain all
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Meat Beat Manifesto: Starman

Meat Beat Manifesto Big chief Jack Dangers takes us on a ride through his Swindon years, being XTC’s teaboy, his British Rail-funded debut LP all the way to his recent release, ‘Impossible Star’
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The Originators: Origin Of The Species

Think Altern-8, Unique 3, Forgemasters, LFO and Krush. The bleep sound of Sheffield spawned an entire genre, not to mention its own label, Warp. Now the makers of many of those original tunes have mobilised once again as The Originators…