Features – Page 100 – Electronic Sound

30 minute read

1978

byPush

It was the year that the Taito Corporation in Tokyo released its ‘Space Invaders’ arcade game. It was the year that Douglas Adams’ ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. And it was the year that the punk rock revolution opened the way for some of the most innovative and exciting music ever.

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Andy McCluskey

byJools Stone

OMD frontman Andy Mccluskey shares the music, men, maladies and machines that make him tick

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Finitribe

byJools Stone

In 1989, Finitribe landed themselves in hot water with a provocative campaign to promote their ‘Animal Farm’ EP. Frontman Davie Miller relives the day the corporate lawyers came a-knocking

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Gary Daly ‘Black Man Ray’

byJools Stone

China Crisis’ Gary Daly looks back on the genesis of their 1985 hit ‘Black Man Ray’, which featured the late, great Walter Becker at the controls

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Bill Bailey

byJo Kendall

Confused hippy and part-troll, Bill Bailey lifts the lid on some of his formative influences…

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Honkmeister 4000

byFat Roland

They’ll be talking about this in the future. It’s the looking forward not backwards Xmas special. Prepare to gawp at the shape of things to come…

LLandmarks

3 minute read

Dominatrix ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’

byJoe Roberts

A huge hit on New York’s 80s club scene, Dominatrix’s ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’ was an irresistible combination of new wave and electro. Mastermind Stuart Argabright tells us how it all came about

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Seefeel ‘Quique’ (Too Pure, 1993)

byIan Abraham

As a fledgling fanzine writer, it seemed implausible that anyone would send anything resembling decent music to an outpost on the Wirral.

LLong Reads

8 minute read

The Originators: Origin Of The Species

byBen Willmott

Think Altern-8, Unique 3, Forgemasters, LFO and Krush. The bleep sound of Sheffield spawned an entire genre, not to mention its own label, Warp. Now the makers of many of those original tunes have mobilised once again as The Originators…

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Tears For Fears: Let It All Out

byRobin Bresnark

As Tears For Fears declare themselves back in business with a Greatest Hits and new album due in 2018, we talk Numan, cover versions, the synthpop misnomer and why Kanye is a dick…