Zan Lyons ‘Desolate’ (Foundry ,2000)
There’s beauty in the noise. Or is it beauty in the nanosecond as the noise stops?
Berlin After Bowie: Gudrun Gut
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.
Rival Consoles
Inspired by the Bergman flick of the same name, Rival Consoles’ ‘persona’ album moves him one step closer to film soundtracks being his next musical step
Chris Carter: Chemical Reaction
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…
Cavern of Anti-Matter: Raves From The Cave
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…
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Stepping from behind the mask, Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Thomas Fec explains how exorcising demons with a new record has found him opening up to the world…
Alva Noto
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…
Disco Inferno ‘Technicolor’ (Rough Trade)
It’s 1996, Britpop is all-seeing and Rough Trade couldn’t give a hoot.
Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine at 40
How does ‘The Man-Machine’, Kraftwerk’s vision of the future, hold up after four decades? We compare and contrast the vision of 1978 with the reality of 2018
Snapped Ankles: Sticks and Stones
They dress as trees and play wooden log synths, and yet London’s subversive Snapped Ankles are living proof that you should never judge a book by its cover…