Features – Electronic Sound

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The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

byJeremy Allen

Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station

LLong Reads

19 minute read

Air: Shoot For The Moon

byDavid Stubbs

Retro-futuristic, gorgeously languid, utterly irresistible – Air changed the sonic landscape almost overnight with the release of ‘Moon Safari’ in 1998. Taking a break from performing the album in full on a mammoth world tour, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin reflect on their robo-romantic masterpiece

LLong Reads

8 minute read

British Murder Boys: Techno Twins

byFat Roland

Anthony Child (aka Surgeon) and Karl O’Connor (aka Regis) are British Murder Boys. It’s more than 20 years since they first got together and the venerated industrial techno duo have only just released their debut album, but it’s been worth the wait

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Conny Frischauf: Pick And Mix

byMat Smith

Combining playful electronics, left-field pop and wonky jazz vibes, the synaesthetic sound world of Viennese electronicist Conny Frischauf is packed full of sonic possibilities

TTime Machine

5 minute read

‘Dub From Creation’

byRobert Harris

In a recording rut at the age of 19, Adrian Sherwood called on reggae producer Dennis Bovell and the Creation Rebel masterpiece, ‘Dub From Creation’, was born

LLong Reads

4 minute read

DMX Krew: Electric Eclectic

byOli Warwick

Whether he’s making classic electro-funk, arch synthpop, curious techno or raw dancehall beats, DMX Krew’s Ed Upton keeps emotional content at the forefront of his multi-hued machine soul

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Orbury Common: Common People

byBob Fischer

Orbury Common’s records are fanciful delights, combining hazy hip hop beats and traditional folk trappings with the hallucinogenic imagery of a nightmarish parallel universe

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Walt Disco: The Rebel Alliance

byBob Fischer

It’s already been a hell of a year for Glaswegian art rockers Walt Disco. The band have enjoyed a rapturous reception as tour support with OMD and released a new album, ‘The Warping’, combining the anthemic with the deeply personal

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8 minute read

Richard Sen: Richard The First

byBen Gilbert

The debut solo album from revered DJ and producer Richard Sen is a collection of questing cosmic house and disco that explores his ancestral roots and cements his reputation as a creative polymath. Strap in for one heck of a backstory…

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Paddy Kingsland ‘Reg’

byBob Fischer

BBC Radiophonic Workshop legend Paddy Kingsland tells us about his reggae-influenced classic, ‘Reg’, the B-side to the 1973 single release of the ‘Doctor Who’ theme tune