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
The DSM IV
Hardcore acid scouse
The Orb: Right Sphere, Right Now
With new album ‘Abolition Of The Royal Familia’, The Orb have taken the blueprint of their 1991 ‘Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld’ debut and given it a 21st century sheen. We meet Alex Paterson and Michael Rendall to talk Eno, ‘The Crown’ and all things orbicular
Cerrone: Naughty By Nature
The French disco don returns with a new album that both stretches back to his dancefloor beginnings and reaches into the future. Cerrone talks sampling, Soho and Studio 54…Â
Graham Fellows
Graham Fellows, the man behind Jilted John and John Shuttleworth, talks us through his formative influences
When Jacno Met Kraftwerk
His band Stinky Toys were forward-thinking French punk pioneers, but Jacno was so much more. A brush with Kraftwerk in 1977, a story you just couldn’t make up, changed his life