Long Reads – Page 43 – Electronic Sound

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Starship Troupers

byMat Smith

In the 1980s, a decade epitomised by big hair, outlandish outfits and believing your own press, nobody did it better than bizarro electro-rockers Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a band that viewed hyperbole as a badge of honour rather than an insult

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Cabaret Voltaire: Call Me A Cab

byDavid Stubbs

He’s been known by many aliases throughout his long solo career, but Richard H Kirk is now once again Cabaret Voltaire. After a hiatus of more than 25 years, the Cabs’ ‘Shadow Of Fear’ album is both a reflection of the current madness and a nod to the possibility of happier times ahead

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Heavenly Sunday Social Club: Chemical Reaction

byRobin Turner

In a sticky-floored pub basement in London’s West End, the Heavenly Sunday Social club night gave birth to an entire genre. The author of a new book on the label talks us through the chaos

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland: A Singular Life

byBen Murphy

At the age of 77, after 50 years of making a huge array of music, ranging from jazz-inflected folk to ambient soundscapes to operatic trip hop, the unique talent of Beverly Glenn-Copeland is finally being recognised

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Jane In Palma: Phoenix Days

byBen Willmott

Julian Smith began his Jane In Palma project after a cataclysmic event turned his life upside down in an instant. Six years and two albums on, he’s producing some of the most inventive electronica around

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Global Communication: Communication Restored

byBen Willmott

Ambient kings Global Communication have curated a new boxset of their most celebrated work, including their classic ’76:14’ album and their legendary Chapterhouse remixes. Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard give us the lowdown

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ACR: 24-Hour Party People

byClaire Francis

Still going strong after four decades, A Certain Ratio modestly put their longevity down to lack of fame. Their new album, ‘ACR Loco’, which fuses many of their influences throughout those years, says otherwise

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Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers

byJeremy Allen

Four months later than originally planned, the Design Museum in London hosted ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers’, a remarkable retrospective of electronic music

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Belbury Poly: Where The Wild Things Are

byBob Fischer

Ghost Box Records founder Jim Jupp is returning to his otherworldly roots with ‘The Gone Away’, his first solo album as Belbury Poly in four years. It’s not about ghosts this time, though. It’s about fairies

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Yello: Holy Banana

byBen Murphy

Dieter Meier and Boris Blank are back with a new Yello album. Four years in the making, it’s a collection of typically sassy and surreal electronic pop songs, including one with a mysterious fruit reference…