The School of Electronic Music

The four-lp boxset ‘Electronic Music’ by Phillip Werren was originally released in an edition of just 100, and made the news recently when a copy sold for over £2,000

50 years after its premiere, Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ masterpiece is as stunning as ever. our resident archivist particularly enjoyed the sound design… oh, and the music

Our resident archivist rummages through early electronica from South America, which, he reports, are thin on the ground due to water damage and warping thanks to the climate

60 years ago, Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking ‘Poème électronique’ made its debut at the Brussels world’s fair. our resident archivist casts a beady ear over its often overlooked first vinyl release

This month’s trawl through our resident archivist’s collection of many obscure treasures turns up a handful of records that claim “pyscho acoustic” properties

When we scratch a record, it’s a tragedy. when Milan Knížák scratched a record, it became highly collectible art. Our resident archivist explains the strange world of broken music

Join our resident archivist as we find him reminiscing about the time he joined Terry Riley in a performance of ‘In C’…

The extraordinary tale of American composer Jerry Hunt, performance artist, avant-garde sound sculptor and maker of one very limited edition handmade vinyl album

It’s Nordic noir this month with a selection of avant-garde electronic experimentation from Scandinavia and beyond, but sadly no Greenland…

This month records featuring the unmistakable and somewhat wobbly tones of the Mellotron come under the gaze of our resident archivist