Features – Page 108 – Electronic Sound

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Shining ‘Din’ (Synthetic Symphony, 1995)

byMat Smith

"I’d become a Nitzer Ebb fan on the release of 1992’s Alan Wilder-produced ‘Ebbhead’, a frustrating time to become a fan of the band because they went on a three-year hiatus pretty much straight after they released that record."

LLong Reads

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Xeno & Oaklander: One Big Family

byMark Roland

Seven degrees of separation? How are Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club connected to Brooklyn retro synth trailblazers Xeno & Oaklander? We unpick the tangled webs…

LLong Reads

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OMD: Bend your Body to the Will of the Machine

byPush

Four years on from the acclaimed ‘English Electric’, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are preparing to release their difficult 13th album. It’s called ‘The Punishment Of Luxury’ and it’s full of surprises. Are you ready for a bit of bending?

LLong Reads

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Morton Subotnick: In The Land of Silver Apples

byRobin Rimbaud

It’s 50 years since he recorded the seminal ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ and a little longer since he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center and helped to design the first Buchla synthesiser. So how come Morton Subotnick seems oblivious to his own musical legacy?

LLong Reads

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Tour De Kraftwerk

byMark Roland

Electronic Sound headed to Germany to catch Kraftwerk playing a huge outdoor concert in celebration of the Tour De France getting under way in Düsseldorf. It was a weekend of beer, bikes and Beuys…

LLong Reads

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I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

byStephen Dalton

As if creating a spot-on retro horror flick soundtrack isn’t enough, los Angeles-based I Speak Machine have made the film to go with it. ‘Zombies 1985’ even stars Gary Numan’s kids…

LLong Reads

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Blancmange: Tape That

byNeil Mason

Purloined from boxes of old cassettes and reel-to-reels, Blancmange are re-releasing their trio of 1980s albums – AND with bonus tracks galore. Let the original line-up of Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe entertain you

UUnder The Influence

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James Lavelle

byBen Murphy

Founder of the seminal Mo’Wax label, art curator and the man from UNKLE, James Lavelle shares a few of his favourite formative inspirations

TTime Machine

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14 Hour Technicolor Dream

byMark Roland

The 14 hour Technicolor Dream event at London’s Alexandra Palace 50 years ago heralded the arrival of counterculture and sowed the seeds of the modern multimedia music experience

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Irmin Schmidt ‘SPOON’

byJools Stone

Can’s Irmin Schmidt reflects on the making of ‘SPOON’, the game-changing single from ‘Ege Bamyasi’