Mat Smith – Page 16 – Electronic Sound

12 minute read

Coldcut: Ahead of Their Time

byMat Smith

Percolating endless ideas, racking up aliases, running multiple labels and still serving up groundbreaking releases, Coldcut are marking 30 years at the coalface with a renewed vigour. Matt Black and Jonathan More step into 2017 full of new music, coming your way on their original, newly revived Ahead Of Our Time imprint…

PPulse

1 minute read

Cloud Boat

byMat Smith

North London duo charting singular course across dark waters

PPulse

1 minute read

Avalon Emerson

byMat Smith

Berlin-based San Fran producer rips up the techno rulebook

PPulse

1 minute read

Pari San

byMat Smith

Tense push and pull electronica

LLabel Profile

2 minute read

Front & Follow

byMat Smith

Location: Manchester, UK Est: 2007

LLong Reads

7 minute read

Lambchop: Never mind the barbecue chicken and shit

byMat Smith

with a little help from potheads, car stereos and tinny supermarket speakers, Kurt Wagner flips the lid and peers into the inner workings of ‘FLOTUS’, the magnificent new Lambchop album

PPulse

1 minute read

NZCA Lines

byMat Smith

Infectious synthpop strokes from a sci-fi fixated London soulboy

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Baffo Banfi ‘Ma, Dolce Vita’ (Innovative Communication, 1979)

byMat Smith

"Looking back, I see now that I spent my mid-90s university years in Colchester buying excessive amounts of music as a defence against a largely miserable existence"

PPulse

1 minute read

Sir Was

byMat Smith

Connected Swedish saxman gives himself an electronic music knighthood

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Vince Clarke: On The Square

byMat Smith

Erasure with rave licks? Orbital with pop flecks? it’s an unlikely collaboration on the face of it, but these two electronic music behemoths have served up a proper treat in the form of Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll’s ‘2Square’. We pop round to Vince’s Brooklyn studio to discover more, while Paul joins in the conversation on Skype