RReviews Read More 2 minute read Peter Zinovieff ‘Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes’ (Space Age)byMat Smith An engaging retrospective of the great man’s work from 1965 to 1979
RReviews Read More 2 minute read Jaga Jazzist ‘Starfire’ (Ninja Tune)byMat Smith Third album from Londoner James Mathé is a real cerebral charmer
LLandmarks Read More 5 minute read Renegade Soundwave ‘Biting My Nails’byMat Smith Gary Asquith winds back to 1989 and recounts a tale about cocaine, cursed death masks and a somewhat informal business meeting with Robert Plant
RReviews Read More 2 minute read Jonteknik ‘Structural’ (Jonteknik Music)byMat Smith Is this the album about architecture that Kraftwerk never made?
RReviews Read More 2 minute read In Fields ‘Phantoms’ (Desire)byMat Smith Forging a new union of man and machine – with a little help from some ghosts
RReviews Read More 2 minute read Biosphere/Deathprod ‘Stator’ (Touch)byMat Smith Ambient music as background? Not a bit of it, as this well-matched split album proves
RReviews Read More 2 minute read Mono Life ‘Phrenology’ (Advanced)byMat Smith A dance music memento mori from the self-styled Skull From Hull
RReviews Read More 3 minute read Martin Gore ‘MG’ (Mute)byMat Smith The Depeche Mode man delivers a solo instrumental album from his Santa Barbara home studio
LLong Reads Read More 8 minute read East India Youth: Right Here, Right NowbyMat Smith 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
RReviews Read More 3 minute read Various Artists ‘Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik’ (Finders Keepers)byMat Smith Eclectic compilation from the back-in-the-day West German DIY scene, where the cassette tape was king