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Home to a bunch of upcoming young gun composers working to blur the lines between electronic and classical music, 130701 Records celebrates itS 15th anniversary this month. Whatever happened to Max Richter, Hauskcha and Jóhann Jóhannsson, eh? Dave Howell, the man at the controls, tells the label’s tale

From Robert Moog and Donald Buchla to Peter Zinovieff and Alan Pearlman, the ’Bright Sparks’ album and film celebrate the pioneers of analogue synthesis with obsessive aplomb

One of them is French and best known as half of Air. The other is Icelandic and made a name for himself with Bang Gang. Together they are Starwalker and they’re lighting up the night sky with their twinkling electropop songs

Arty new wave outsiders who became unlikely pop stars, The Associates shook the 80s firmly by its lacy lapels. Three decades on, bandmates Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey try to make some sense of it all…

There was no single unifying event for the formative UK electronica scene, no point when something suddenly clicked, no precise year zero moment. But there was a bunch of like-minded souls beavering away in what they thought was their own little void, unaware there were others just like them all over the country. We talk to seven of the artists featured on the ’Close To The Noise Floor’ box set and get their big bang stories

Take Japanese noiseniks-turned-minimalists Nisennenmondai. Add a big dollop of On-U production wizard Adrian Sherwood. The result is ‘#N/A’, an album where human frailty meets precision engineering