Pari San
Tense push and pull electronica
Front & Follow
Location: Manchester, UK Est: 2007
Lambchop: Never mind the barbecue chicken and shit
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
NZCA Lines
Infectious synthpop strokes from a sci-fi fixated London soulboy
Baffo Banfi ‘Ma, Dolce Vita’ (Innovative Communication, 1979)
"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"
Sir Was
Connected Swedish saxman gives himself an electronic music knighthood
Vince Clarke: On The Square
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
Innerspace Orchestra
Future psych served with added out-there goodness
Immersion: Re-Wired For Sound
A new EP by Immersion finds Wire frontman Colin Newman and Minimal Compact basser Malka Spigel on sparkling form… but then this record has been over a decade and a half in the making
Public Memory ‘Wuthering Drum’ (Felte)
Edgy, West Coast-inspired electronica noir