When Heldon Met Kraftwerk
Heldon guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas reflects on some memorable encounters with KraftwerkÂ
Andy Bell ‘The View From Halfway Down ‘ (Sonic Cathedral)
Psychedelic synth/six-string dust-up Â
Tears For Fears: Fear Factory
Celebrating the release of the first Tears For Fears album since 2004, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith reflect on a five-decade career and talk about loss, working under duress, musique concrète and Gothic architectureÂ
Pink Shabab
Cross-channel school-disco funkster
Betty Boo
Marking her first single in three decades with the ‘Love Action’-sampling ‘Get Me To The Weekend’, Betty Boo reveals her formative influences
QuinzeQuinze
French outfit with Polynesian influence
Metronomy: World View
Good things come in little parcels. And the new Metronomy album, ‘Small World’, is certainly a welcome delivery. Joseph Mount, the band’s de facto leader, gives us the lowdown on their finest outing since ‘The English Riviera’Â
Pascal Gabriel
Producer Pascal Gabriel revisits his innovative work on a brace of 1988 megahits, ‘Beat Dis’ and ‘Theme From S-Express’
Crammed Discs: Measure of the Man
Crammed Discs’ avant-garde ‘Made To Measure’ series has recently reactivated to serve up reissued classics as well as new releases. We meet Crammed boss Marc Hollander and some of the Belgian label’s always idiosyncratic artistsÂ
Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘Esperanto’ (Wewantsounds)
With a title like ‘Esperanto’, you’d have expected Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1985 studio album to have been a universal……