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
Shitwife
Making Sleaford Mods look like Bucks Fizz
Roseau
Ethereal urban dream pop – with teeth
Ofelia K
Delicate warblings with vibrant electronic twang included
Mauricio Kagel
How our resident archivist became the owner of Henry Jacobs’ stash of early electronic music reel-to-reel tapes, among them a piece by the German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel, is one of the strangest stories you’ll ever hear
Tesco Value Headphones
Our potentially award-winning columnist is not easily impressed. He is, in fact, easily unimpressed. Ask him about DJs these days. Go on, ask him and see what happens. And yes, that is prune juice on his cardigan
Telepathe
NYC gone LA duo fill up with funky fuel
Rodney Cromwell
Synthpop with a heavy dose of nostalgia
Niagara
Cerebral and experimental electroheads