Barry Gray: Stand By for Action!
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s pioneering TV worlds were driven by Supermarionation and sci-fi spectacle, but it was Barry Gray’s trailblazing soundtracks that gave them soul...
Barry Gray: Scoring Position
With their promise of exhilarating retro-futuristic adventures, Barry Gray’s defining soundtracks for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson fizz with bombastic brass, sweeping strings and daring electronic innovation
Swamp Children ‘You’ve Got Me Beat’
Swamp Children were a ragtag bunch of electro-jazz punksters from Manchester, featuring a fresh-faced Martin Moscrop and Ann Quigley. The two talk about the making of ‘You’ve Got Me Beat’, their groove-laden 1982 cut
The 1990s Finnish Electro Scene
A deep dive into the thrilling backstory to the 1990s Finnish Electro Scene, with key figures speaking about what made those years – and that music – so special
Hannah Peel
From the glorious scenery of Donegal to presenting BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Tracks’, Hannah Peel reveals the primary influences that have shaped her
Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)
"Where I grew up, in rural Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, the radio served up a fairly standard menu of meat-and-potatoes rock ’n’ roll..."
Adwaith: Cymru Out In Force
With nods to The Cure, Can, Björk and even Turkish rock, the latest offering from Welsh trio Adwaith fuses electronics, post-punk and psych to resounding effect
Benefits: Friends With Benefits
Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major are north-east duo Benefits. Combining poetic spoken word with slick retro beats, their second album seeks out beauty amid the “incessant barking” of the modern media landscape
Soon: Time For Action
Adi Newton (Clock DVA) and Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto) are electronic royalty. Steeped in “spectral dimensions and psychedelic radiophonics”, their second collaborative project as Soon is the sort of ambitious tour de force we’ve come to expect
Cocorosie: Sister Act
Throughout their 20-year journey as CocoRosie, Bianca and Sierra Casady have been both revered and wilfully misunderstood. fully Embracing their “irrepressible artistic self-realisation”, they open up on creative freedom, sibling clashes and being “very witchy”