Nik Colk Void of Factory Floor takes us on a trip through her formative influences, from her dad making concrete to a chance meeting with Sonic Youth’s manager and beyond. Strap yourself in, it’s quite a ride
It’s autumn 1993 and if you were very, very lucky, you would have managed to lay your hands on a new magazine published by none other than the Beastie Boys. Their short-lived Grand Royal title was a total delight despite its utter chaos. Here’s why…
As the British Library sound archive launches a multi-million pound project to save the nation’s sounds, we take a guided tour of their ever-growing collection to get an idea of the task ahead
We all know him as Robert Moog, the godfather of the synthesiser, a man whose role in the history of electronic sound cannot be overStated. But to Michelle Moog-Koussa, he was plain old Dad, who helped her with her piano lessons, chopped wood for the fire, and liked gardening and canoeing and star gazing. Ahead of a new documentary about Bob Moog that Michelle is putting together for release next year, we get a fascinating and highly personal insight into the everyday life of a legend
Home to a bunch of upcoming young gun composers working to blur the lines between electronic and classical music, 130701 Records celebrates itS 15th anniversary this month. Whatever happened to Max Richter, Hauskcha and Jóhann Jóhannsson, eh? Dave Howell, the man at the controls, tells the label’s tale