Neil Mason – Page 33 – Electronic Sound

4 minute read

British Electric Foundation ‘Groove Thang’

byNeil Mason

You might know ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’ as a Heaven 17 song, but it started life as ‘Groove Thang’, an instrumental on BEF’s cassette-only debut, ‘Music For Stowaways’. Martyn Ware explains how the track liberated him from The Human League’s synth-only policy and helped him uncover a very rare talent

PPulse

1 minute read

Telepathe

byNeil Mason

NYC gone LA duo fill up with funky fuel

PPulse

1 minute read

Rodney Cromwell

byNeil Mason

Synthpop with a heavy dose of nostalgia

RReviews

2 minute read

Years & Years ‘Communion’ (Polydor)

byNeil Mason

Chart toppers turn in a pop-fuelled debut with a twist of… oh, what is it?

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2 minute read

Asian Dub Foundation ‘More Signal More Noise’ (ADF Communications/believe)

byNeil Mason

The return of a band who always do things their own way… Hold on, they’ve got a flute

TTime Machine

8 minute read

Laurent Garnier ‘Electrochoc’

byNeil Mason

Originally published in French in 2003, Laurent Garnier’s book ‘Electrochoc’ finally gets an English version. We talk to the author and, in an exclusive extract, he casts back to 1993 and recalls his very first visit to Detroit

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

byNeil Mason

Lost gems? We got ‘em by the chestful. Glittering musical prizes lost in the mists of time. This month, we clap our ears around Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

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