Features – Page 110 – Electronic Sound

6 minute read

Warpaint: “Let’s just make some good old fucking rock and roll…”

bySophie Little

Despite their confrontational moniker, Warpaint are a harmonious bunch, both musically and personally. Bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg offers some wise words on how to be in a band that matters these days

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Silver Apples: Sparkle And Shine

byKris Needs

With an eventful career that began in the 60s, Silver Apples have every right to enjoy a quiet retirement. But founder and lone surviving member Simeon Coxe is having none of it and has, instead, produced his magnum opus

LLong Reads

6 minute read

Save Our Sounds

byNeil Mason

As the British Library sound archive launches a multi-million pound project to save the nation’s sounds, we take a guided tour of their ever-growing collection to get an idea of the task ahead

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Da-Da-Da

byMark Roland

Dada, Hugo Ball’s quirky anti-art movement that inspired bands galore, celebrates its centenary this year. From 1916 and Zürich’s Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 to 2016 and the return of Yello, we squint at the cogs inside this cuckoo Swiss concept

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Baffo Banfi ‘Ma, Dolce Vita’ (Innovative Communication, 1979)

byMat Smith

"Looking back, I see now that I spent my mid-90s university years in Colchester buying excessive amounts of music as a defence against a largely miserable existence"

UUnder The Influence

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Ladyhawke

bySophie Little

From Wellington to Melbourne to Sydney to London to Los Angeles. Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, settles down for just about long enough to talk through some of the things that have shaped her along the way

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Léon Theremin

byRobert Webb

We’re setting the dials all the way back to 1927, to the Royal Albert Hall in London, where a packed audience gathered on a chilly winter’s evening to witness Russian scientist Léon Theremin using his remarkable black box to create “Music from the Ether”

LLandmarks

4 minute read

M, ‘Pop Muzik’ (MCA Records, 1979)

byMark Roland

Robin Scott remembers the genesis of ‘Pop Muzik’, his huge worldwide hit as M in 1979. New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about…

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Vince Clarke: On The Square

byMat Smith

Erasure with rave licks? Orbital with pop flecks? it’s an unlikely collaboration on the face of it, but these two electronic music behemoths have served up a proper treat in the form of Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll’s ‘2Square’. We pop round to Vince’s Brooklyn studio to discover more, while Paul joins in the conversation on Skype

LLong Reads

8 minute read

onDeadWaves: Waving…Not Drowning

byBethan Cole

OnDeadWaves is a fascinating collaboration between Mute artists Polly Scattergood and MAPS, also known as James Chapman. Their self-titled album is one of the most melancholic records you’ll hear all year, but they insist there are nuggets of hope sparkling in the sadness