K-X-P ‘III Part II’ (Öm/Svart)
Attitude-fuelled, volcanic electronic post-punk offering
Audio Miner
Like an audio miner, Kris Needs heads off with his hard hat and a big shovel and we eagerly await his return with a bucketful of essential new tuneage… Oh look, he’s back Â
Weird And Wonderful
Our man on the inside serves up another selection of weird and wonderful reviews of weird and wonderful records
This Heat ‘This Heat/Health And Efficiency/Deceit’ (Modern Classics)
Post-punk experimentalists mark 40th anniversary with deluxe reissues
The Advent/Various Artists ‘Collection 100’ (Kombination Research)
Cisco Ferreira and heavyweight friends celebrate 20 years of defiant techno bangers
Corking Tuneage
This latest instalment finds our esteemed columnist knee-deep in goat’s scrotums, masturbating ducks and hippo flatulence… oh and some corking tuneage Â
Suicide: Dream Baby Dream
Myth and legend are never more than a step away from Suicide. In a new book by our very own Kris Needs, ‘Dream Baby Dream — Suicide, A New York Story’, Alan Vega and Martin Rev reveal the inside line on their extraordinary career. With this exclusive extract, we’re treated to the gobsmacking first-hand recollections of the recording sessions that lead to their startling 1977 eponymous debut album
Levantis ‘Romantic Psychology 1’ (Technicolour)
Actress iconoclast Darren J Cunningham gives shadowy alter ego whole album
Irmler & Einheit ‘Bestandteil’ (Klangbad)
Series of Faustian pacts between the organ experimentalist and assorted percussionists continues
Irmin Schmidt: About Schmidt
With the imminent release of a bumper box set of his solo work, one-time Can man Irmin Schmidt looks back over his illustrious career and talks about fleeing war-torn Berlin as a child, learning his trade under Stockhausen, and his sonic adventures in the worlds of classical music, experimental electronics, film soundtracks and fantasy operatics