Buried Treasure

'The first music I encountered by this spectacularly named artist was ‘Utuba’ on Warp’s ‘Artificial Intelligence II’ compilation in 1994"

"Music moves in mysterious ways, as do, I’ve discovered over the years, the people who work in and around it"

The story is surely the stuff of legend: an uncompromising New York model hooks up with Burroughs and Basquiat and reinvents herself as an uncompromising musician and poet

"Berlin’s Digital Hardcore Recordings produced a whole host of amazing bands with one aim – to reimagine the anarchic, angry spirit of punk through electronica"

You’d say that Big Yoga Muffin took the biscuit when it came to daft names, but saying that sort of thing only leads to further unnecessary confectionery puns

"Formed in 1982 by brothers Martyn and Steve Young and later adding vocalist Lorita Grahame, Colourbox started life as an indie band"

"Looking back, I see now that I spent my mid-90s university years in Colchester buying excessive amounts of music as a defence against a largely miserable existence"

They were called Vidéo Aventures. They were French, they had links to the extreme Rock In Opposition movement, and in 1981 they released ‘Musique Pour Garçons Et Filles’, a superb example of underground electropop weirdosity

A proper best-kept secret, 1980s Edinburgh outfit WIN are the greatest band most people have never heard of

You might remember them as Scott 4, but it was as The Scott 4 Free Rock Orchestra that they released ‘E-S-P’, a record that flipped from electrofunk to chillout to weirdo reggae without missing a beat