Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)
Say what you will about the rise of algorithms, but on occasion they do get it right.
Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)
Not long after Wendy Carlos officially ‘Switched-On’ the world, Bob Moog and a collection of electronic music pioneers gathered in the gardens of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to stage the first live performance of the Moog synthesiser
Twïnn
Fabulously neon synthpop from Michigan
Herb Deutsch: Out Of The Ether
Moog collaborator turned university professor
Thomas Fehlmann
Thomas Fehlmann recounts how The Orb managed a surprise return to the top of the UK charts… by way of a rejection from Jean-Michel Jarre
Death Hags
Mysterio gives lush dreampop and more
Tony Rolando
Renowned instrument maker turns producer
Tron
Decades on from a time when you couldn’t simply produce a film soundtrack on a laptop, sound design supervisor Michael Fremer reflects on what it was like to work with composer Wendy Carlos for Disney’s 1982 sci-fi action-adventure, ‘Tron’
Ghost Power
Sci-fi funk instrumentals from power duo
Craig Palmer ‘Industrial – Volume 26’ (Network Production Music, 1983)
At some point, the entertainment industry will have to relax its choke-hold on 1980s nostalgia. They’ll finally realise that video arcades aren’t coming back