Kim Ki O
The sound of diy dissent from Turkey
The microKORG
Happy birthday to you… we celebrate 15 years of Korg’s game changing little synth, the MicroKORG, with its creator Minoru Koike
Martial Canterel
Channeling early 80s DIY euro electronica
From Forbidden Planet to Blade Runner 2049: The Troubled Past (And Future) of The Sci-Fi Soundtrack
As ‘Blade Runner 2049’ hits cinema screens, the news that the film’s soundtrack composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been replaced at the 11th hour by Hans Zimmer comes with a sense of déjà vu. Like a time warping Philip K Dick short story, didn’t all this happen before? It certainly did…
Gary Numan: Global Warning
A desert earth, marauding tribes of murderous religious zealots, and a vengeful father called Ruin, Gary Numan’s new album is a riot of misery, anxiety and epic synth hooks…
Boy Harsher
Literate US darkwave excursions
Xeno & Oaklander: One Big Family
Seven degrees of separation? How are Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club connected to Brooklyn retro synth trailblazers Xeno & Oaklander? We unpick the tangled webs…
Tour De Kraftwerk
Electronic Sound headed to Germany to catch Kraftwerk playing a huge outdoor concert in celebration of the Tour De France getting under way in Düsseldorf. It was a weekend of beer, bikes and Beuys…
14 Hour Technicolor Dream
The 14 hour Technicolor Dream event at London’s Alexandra Palace 50 years ago heralded the arrival of counterculture and sowed the seeds of the modern multimedia music experience
Heartless
Expert knob twiddling minimal techno