The School of Electronic Music

Our resident archivist pulls Thomas Dolby’s 1984 classic ‘The Flat Earth’ from the shelves of his collection to be admired anew for its song smithery and its connections to No Wave, Telex and David Bowie

Our resident archivist picks out one of the most influential records of his musical life, Mark Stewart’s 1985 album, ‘As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade’ produced by the mighty Adrian Sherwood

Musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry died in July (2017). Our resident archivist remembers his own encounter with the great man

According to our resident archivist, the best album to come out of Sheffield is Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘The Voice Of America’, the 1980 classic of collage, noise, tape loops, samples and mess

It seems that The Italian composer Luciano Berio might have been responsible for the first ever electronic single…

Is it music? Or just a sound effect? The question that has dogged electronic music from its inception gets short shrift from our in-house wax obsessive

This month, our resident archivist fixes on Adi Newton, his work as The Anti-Group, Clock DVA and the primordial Sheffield electronic soup which produced The Human League

Our resident archivist salutes electronica’s unsung heroes, those credited with having “realised” well-known works, and picks out the shining examples

With the death of Don Buchla recently, his iconic synths have been on the minds of many. Our resident archivist rummages through his collection and highlights a selection of records made using Buchla’s quirky set-up

Noise has been a part of recorded music since its earliest days. Our resident curator of rare discs digs out a few examples that use noise to make music. or are they just noisy records?