Bernard Bonnier
Professor Dangers digs out an album that holds its own against Eno and Byrne’s 1981 masterpiece ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’, yet pre-dates it by a couple of years. Meet Bernard Bonnier...
Golden Fields Of Vegan Wheat
Oh, the folly of the rich and famous. Imagine if our lot got on a Morrissey I-can-write-a-novel kick… we stare off into the distance all wistful, like, and imagine such things…
Full Plunge
Last month saw the return of my Needs Must column after a gap of 18 years. And it was a blast. If that was a toe-dipping exercise to ease me back in, this time the aim is take the full plunge. So without further ado…
Zaflon
The new school of “chuck it all in and give it a good stir” drum ‘n’ tronica
Krakaur
Chilly downtempo beats upstate New York style
Connie Constance
Metropolitan mysticism and downtown dream pop
‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’
digs out another gem of early electronic music: ‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’, a demonstration disc of the monstrous RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer from 1955, on both 12-inch LP and seven-inch box set formats
No More Nails
Our resident columnist is back from his stint at the Edinburgh Festival. We reckon you ought to be seeing him on ‘Mock The Week’ any day now. In the meantime, he’s demanding a pay rise and going on about Aphex Twin again
Top Trackage
Our new monthly round-up of top trackage – courtesy of the man who invented the phrase “trance trousers”
Willis Earl Beal
Coming on like a ‘Twin Peaks’ version of Otis Redding