Long Reads – Page 48 – Electronic Sound

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In Search of Daphne Oram

byMark Roland

She was the founding director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the inventor of Oramics, but there are big gaps in what we know about Daphne Oram. Join us on a road trip with a difference to discover more about the first lady of British electronic music

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8 minute read

Tunng: Out Of This World

byMatt Parker

With ‘Dead Club’, Tunng have been on a journey that’s taken them beyond the album, beyond music, beyond life itself. Sam Genders and Becky Jacobs explain why they’re tackling death head on

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The Lost Stoned Pandas: You Know When You’ve Been Panda’d

byKris Needs

Pete Bingham, lynchpin of cosmic rockers Sendelica, has put together one of the weirdest musical collectives known to man. Or beast. Meet The Lost Stoned Pandas, whose members include Electronic Sound’s own space voyager, Panda Kris

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9 minute read

Working Men’s Club: Working Wonders

byBen Willmott

Working Men’s Club are ambitious and angry. They swear a lot and they’ve got a song called ‘John Cooper Clarke’. It’s no wonder their debut album is being touted as one of the best records of 2020

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Doug McKechnie: The Catalytic Agent

byPush

Starting in 1968, San Francisco musician Doug McKechnie was one of the very first people to play a Moog. Stand by for a remarkable story involving Hell’s Angels, FBI agents, concrete caverns and a pyramid of Mexican weed

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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