Martin Gore: Monkey Business
Martin Gore discusses humanity’s tendency towards self-destruction, the synth that kick-started Depeche Mode, performing on TV with live chickens – oh, and his new EP, ‘The Third Chimpanzee’
The RAH Band ‘The Crunch’
Richard Anthony Hewson – aka The RAH Band – remembers his 1977 Top 10 single ‘The Crunch’
Rusty Egan
Complex time signatures, German electronica, Alan Vega and DIY thrift shop fashion. Rich Kids, Visage and Blitz club legend Rusty Egan is as passionate as ever about his formative influences
Hannah Peel: Permanent Waves
Hannah Peel has surely and steadily established herself as one of the leading lights of the electronic world, with the likes of John Foxx, OMD and Paul Weller seeking out her services. With her new album, ‘Fir Wave’, she enjoys the unique privilege of retrospectively collaborating with her idol, the late Delia Derbyshire
The All Golden
Unearthing lost tapes for reworking
Quiet Clapping
Narcotically soothing ambience
Revolution in the Head: Beautify Junkyards
Beautify Junkyards bring a Portuguese perspective to Ghost Box’s retro-futurist aesthetic. Frontman João Branco Kyron discusses Portugal’s 1974 military uprising, his love of British acid folk, and disturbing spectral voice recordings
Polypores
Deep, dark woods, LEGO and ‘The War Of The Worlds’. Modular synth maestro Stephen James Buckley, aka Polypores, reveals just a few of the influences that make him tick
Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)
In the early 1980s, robots were everywhere.