Renegade Soundwave ‘Biting My Nails’
Gary Asquith winds back to 1989 and recounts a tale about cocaine, cursed death masks and a somewhat informal business meeting with Robert Plant
Jonteknik ‘Structural’ (Jonteknik Music)
Is this the album about architecture that Kraftwerk never made?
In Fields ‘Phantoms’ (Desire)
Forging a new union of man and machine – with a little help from some ghosts
Biosphere/Deathprod ‘Stator’ (Touch)
Ambient music as background? Not a bit of it, as this well-matched split album proves
Mono Life ‘Phrenology’ (Advanced)
A dance music memento mori from the self-styled Skull From Hull
Martin Gore ‘MG’ (Mute)
The Depeche Mode man delivers a solo instrumental album from his Santa Barbara home studio
East India Youth: Right Here, Right Now
From sleepy seaside town to thrumming back streets of East London, East India Youth’s follow-up to his Mercury-nominated debut is seeped in the sounds of the city – and it’s a sonic stunner
Various Artists ‘Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik’ (Finders Keepers)
Eclectic compilation from the back-in-the-day West German DIY scene, where the cassette tape was king
Nagamatzu ‘Neural Interval’ (Zoharum)
The long-lost back catalogue of the cult darkwave duo is released on CD for the first time
C30 C60 C90 Go!
The underground Tape Scene of early 1980s Germany produced countless DIY artists whose exciting and experimental work sounds as fresh today as it did then. And at its heart was electronic pioneer Felix Kubin, curator of the tape-tastic ‘Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik’ compilationÂ