Long Reads

William Basinski’s ‘The Disintegration Loops’ has attained legendary status. As an expansive new reissue drops, this dark ambient masterpiece drifts back into focus, shimmering with haunted reverie

Anarchic art-poppers Chicks On Speed are back with a career-spanning boxset and typically provocative new material. Co-founder Alex Murray-Leslie discusses witches, creative rebirths and trying to “break music”

With a killer electroclash compilation just released, Nag Nag Nag founder and DJ Jonny Slut lifts the lid on wild club nights, his Human League fixation and the time Cilla Black got down to some seriously filthy tunes

This year marks the centenary of Tristram Cary’s birth. Regarded as the father of British electronic music, it’s……

By the mid-1980s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was dominating British culture. Actor Reece Dinsdale and film editor John Cary look back at their contributions to two keystones of the Cold War aesthetic – ‘Threads’ and ‘When The Wind Blows’

Factory Records insider and founding member of Die Unbekannten, Mark Reeder arrived in West Berlin in 1978. His Cold War life in the divided city, smuggling music into the East like a dangerous subversive, reads like a post-punk spy yarn 

Thirteen years since his last solo outing, Adrian Sherwood’s new work finds the dub visionary pushing his indomitable, low-end sound into exhilarating new territory

The debut solo project from Teeth Of The Sea’s Mike Bourne, Bruise Blood deals in heaving electronics and dirty beats. Dancey yet abyssal, disorienting yet immersive, resistance is futile – prepare to be pulled under

Two-Thirds of David Bowie’s essential DAM Trio, guitarist Carlos Alomar and bassist George Murray reflect on the daring reinvention, chemistry and sonic innovation that powered Bowie’s hugely influential Berlin-era work

With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners