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With a new album awash with electronic goodness, Tracey Thorn talks production Licks, girl band Picks and her teenage kicks

When Edgar Froese died in January 2015, he didn’t just leave behind one almighty legacy. He also put in place the means for Tangerine Dream to carry on after his sudden “change of cosmic address”. Let Ulrich Schnauss, who Froese brought into the band in 2014, explain all

It’s been a long and often very strange trip, that’s for sure. So just in case they come up in your local pub quiz, here’s A handy history of Tangerine Dream

While everyone else was heading off down the blues road, Tangerine Dream were taking music into another dimension, making records like no one had ever heard before. we explore those early Berlin days and heady underground nights

Raf Rundell has a double-edged sword for a muse. His new life as a parent has equally exposed the woes of the world and incited hope for his offsping’s future. He lays both bare on his reflective new album, ‘Stop Lying’

Taking a lead from the title of his latest album, Nightmares On Wax’s George Evelyn sees a more positive world if we aim to ‘Shape The Future’. How so? Living in Ibiza for 10 years sure helps

Meat Beat Manifesto Big chief Jack Dangers takes us on a ride through his Swindon years, being XTC’s teaboy, his British Rail-funded debut LP all the way to his recent release, ‘Impossible Star’

It seems fitting that one of the most inventive acts of the 1980s has a back story you couldn’t make up. On the eve of a live reboot, Anne Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and Gary Langan tell the incredible tale of Art Of Noise. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…