Pilots Of Purple Twilight: ‘The Virgin Recordings 1980-1983’ (UMC/EMI)
It’s fair to say that the first half of Tangerine Dream’s epic 10-year adventure with Virgin Records gets……
Malcolm McLaren
Picture the scene. It’s 1979 and in a French library, Malcolm McLaren has unearthed a record that will shape the 1980s pop charts… or has he? We lift the lid on the origins of the Burundi beat sound
Télépopmusik ‘Everybody Breaks The Line’ (Warm Music)
Named after an old TV repair shop on Paris’ Avenue Jean-Jaurès that’s still operational, Télépopmusik’s re-emergence some 15…
Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers
Four months later than originally planned, the Design Museum in London hosted ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers’, a remarkable retrospective of electronic music
Barry Ashworth
Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth reflects on the formative influences that have shaped his life and career
Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)
When Pete Shelley died in December 2018, a universal acknowledgement of just how much we’d lost soon followed.
Ultravox: Ooohhh Vienna
Ultravox’s seminal album ‘Vienna’ took the band from the edge of oblivion to pop stardom. Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann remember the turbulent times and twists of fate that set them on the path to gloryÂ
Sébastien Forrester
Nomad with a penchant for the complex
Edgar Froese ‘Kamikaze 1989’ (Virgin Schallplatten, 1982)
Tangerine Dream have released a lot of albums. The German electronic pioneers were so prolific that nobody quite knows how many LPs there are, though it’s thought to be around 160, all told.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius: The Path of True Love
German electronic colossus Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on the latest volume of his four-decade ‘Selbstportrait’ series of albums, his turbulent early life, and the love of a good womanÂ