Mat Smith – Electronic Sound

8 minute read

OMD: Stepping Up

byMat Smith

Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are still coming up with the goods 45 years in. Their new album, ‘Bauhaus Staircase’, a glorious collision of hook-laden electropop and artistic sentiment, finds the synth pioneers in perfect sync

PPulse

2 minute read

Feral Five

byMat Smith

Two electronicists search for the truth

PPulse

2 minute read

Gaunt

byMat Smith

Sublime sounds for haunted dancefloors

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Veryan: Go Wild

byMat Smith

Mysterious producer Veryan makes bewitching ambient soundscapes as immersive and inspiring as the remote Scottish forest she calls home

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Higher Intelligence Agency, ‘Colourform’, (Beyond, 1993)

byMat Smith

"Chris was the older brother of my high school best friend. He had the hippest taste in music, but he was also really intimidating."

IInterviews

4 minute read

Lara Jones: No Sax Please

byMat Smith

A euphoric celebration of queer intimacy, Lara Jones’ glorious new ‘Fig’ EP is swathed in sensuous samples and glitchy electronics

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Richard X

byMat Smith

Producer Richard X talks about his Girls On Top single ‘Being Scrubbed’, the pioneering 2001 mash-up of early Human League and TLC tracks

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Will Sergeant

byMat Smith

Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist and Glide experimentalist Will Sergeant muses over his formative and foremost influences

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Nick Rhodes

byMat Smith

Duran Duran man Nick Rhodes recalls the launch of his 1984 book and subsequent London exhibition, ‘Interference’, which were brought to life by eminent graphic designer Malcolm Garrett

PPulse

2 minute read

Kiffie

byMat Smith

Love, metaphysics and riotous synthpop