Mark Roland – Electronic Sound

4 minute read

Cold War Electronica: Cold Warrior

byMark Roland

Factory Records insider and founding member of Die Unbekannten, Mark Reeder arrived in West Berlin in 1978. His Cold War life in the divided city, smuggling music into the East like a dangerous subversive, reads like a post-punk spy yarn

RReviews

2 minute read

Kathryn Joseph & Lomond Campbell

byMark Roland

“I’m going to play lots of disgusting songs about fucking…”

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Fini Tribe: From Start To Fini

byMark Roland

With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: 10 Selected Works

byMark Roland

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are far more than simple musicians. From ingenious and engaging sound art to thought-provoking exhibitions and installations, here is a potted guide to some of their works beyond music

LLong Reads

19 minute read

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Catch Our Drift

byMark Roland

Brian Eno joins forces with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe for a breathtaking trilogy of albums that float tantalisingly through opulent, ambient atmospherics and hushed Americana...Get ready for total immersion

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Radiophonic Workshop: Maida To Order

byMark Roland

To create a new Radiophonic Workshop sample library, esteemed former members reconvened at the BBC’s iconic Maida Vale studios for one last poignant rendezvous

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Krautrock: Bowie’s Krautrock Connection

byMark Roland

First, there was Cluster, Kraftwerk, Neu! and Harmonia, then there was David Bowie’s ‘Low’. Next came the British post-punk and electronic music explosion. This is not a coincidence. Michael Rother helps join the dots

LLong Reads

5 minute read

‘Autobahn’ At 50: Krautrock’s Off-Ramp

byMark Roland

As Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ celebrates its big birthday, we examine its nuanced relationship with krautrock and Germany’s history

NNews

2 minute read

Radiophonic Sound

byMark Roland

The Workshop release a new archive for sampling

LLong Reads

19 minute read

Jean-Michel Jarre: Live Rendez-Vous

byMark Roland

As Jean-Michel Jarre gears up to release a boxset of his city-swallowing spectacular in Bratislava earlier this year, we chat to the French master of electronic music about the evolution of his extraordinary live shows, from his 1971 debut to the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics