Ben Willmott – Page 8 – Electronic Sound

8 minute read

The Originators: Origin Of The Species

byBen Willmott

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…

TTime Machine

5 minute read

The Brain, Wardour Street, London

byBen Willmott

Opening in the late 80s, The Brain on London’s Wardour Street championed pretty much an entire generation of DJs and electronic live acts. Co-founder Sean Mclusky tells the club’s incredible tale

LLong Reads

6 minute read

Tiny Magnetic Pets: Pet Sounds

byBen Willmott

With friends in high places and a new album set to make waves, Irish synthpoppers Tiny Magnetic Pets look ready for the limelight

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Baxter Dury

byBen Willmott

Sharing some of the influences that shaped the sound and the attitude of his new album, enter the fascinating world of Baxter Dury

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Leila ‘Like Weather’ (Rephlex, 1998)

byBen Willmott

Leila Arab was born in Iran, but moved to Britain at an early age, her family forced to flee the country’s Islamic Revolution because of her father’s ties with the ousted Shah

LLong Reads

7 minute read

Fader: Great Minds Think Alike

byBen Willmott

Working remotely with little discussion of the music being passed between them, Fader aren’t your usual electronic outfit. You might recognise the pair of them too…

LLong Reads

12 minute read

Underworld: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy

byBen Willmott

In March, they played their biggest-ever headline show in front of 10,000 people at London’s Alexandra Palace. Entitled ‘The Surreal Carnival Experiment’, it blew the doors off any ideas of what a live show should be. But what did you expect? This is Underworld after all

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Adrian Sherwood

byBen Willmott

The man behind the mighty On-U Sound label, dub kingpin Adrian Sherwood, shares a few of the formative influences that have shaped him and his considerable studio smarts

PPulse

1 minute read

Noga Erez

byBen Willmott

Compelling Tel Aviv MC and partner in crime fuel future-facing mash-ups

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Carl Crack ‘Black Ark’ (DHR Limited, 1998)

byBen Willmott

"Berlin’s Digital Hardcore Recordings produced a whole host of amazing bands with one aim – to reimagine the anarchic, angry spirit of punk through electronica"