Long Reads

As a recording artist, first as The Normal and then as The Silicon Teens, his career was over in a flash. but as the head honcho of Mute records, Daniel Miller has stayed the course and then some, building one of the greatest labels in the world. and with Mute gearing up for the 2020š and beyond, his vision remains as strong and clear as it ever was. He still has time for a bit of DJing too. no requests please

We visit the group’s remote rural HQ to talk about their exciting new World Of Underworld project and find out how they’re using sounds and words and pictures to carve out a unique role as 21st century storytellers

Films played quite a role in the making of the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, ‘Age Of’. Recording alone in a rented a house on the hill that freaked the bejesus out him at night, Daniel Lapotin talks Kubrick, harpsichords, alien regression and, erm, ‘The Great Whatsit’…

In a further bid for musical world domination, Blancmange’s Neil Arthur enlists musician, sculptor and film-maker Jez Bernholz to create the sumptuously minimal Near Future. the pair’s superb debut album is ‘ideal home’.What’s it all about? We ask the questions….

The inspiration behind Jon Hopkins’ new album ‘Singularity’ is quite surprising… we talk psychedelic trips in the desert, transcendental meditation on planes, bird watching and wild swimming, oh yes we do

Maybe he was in Virgin Prunes and the lynchpin of the Princess Tinymeat offshoot, or maybe he wasn’t. Discover how the enigmatic Daniel Figgis is still crafting beguiling music and bewildering audiences today, thank goodness

Gudrun Gut moved to West Berlin in 1975 and she’s been there ever since. Initially enticed by the smell of kebabs wafting through the air, which represented freedom to her, Gudrun Bredemann hunkered down in the political enclave and artistic demi-monde, gradually becoming punk’s answer to Marlene Dietrich.

It’s been almost 20 years since we’ve had the pleasure of a lesser-spotted Chris Carter solo album. Brewed up and shot through with the influence of his late, great TG pal, Sleazy, ‘Chemistry Lessons Volume One’, is something very special indeed…

With their third album ‘Hormone Lemonade’, Cavern of Anti-Matter set a new benchmark for inspired modular Pulsations. “I’m nowhere near mastering anything to do with music,” shrugs their leader, Tim Gane. We beg to differ…

You may know Carsten Nicolai, AKA Alva Noto, from his pioneering work as co-founder of glitch techno label Raster-Noton, or maybe from his collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Or there’s his work with Michael Nyman and a talking budgie…