Money Mark, ‘Mark’s Keyboard Repair’
Thick as thieves Beastie Boys’ compatriot Money Mark is perhaps best known for his eclectic 1998 album ‘Push The Button’, but his earlier debut, ‘Mark’s Keyboard Repair’, was really where it’s at
Lloyd Cole: Dimensional Shift
If you still think of Lloyd Cole as a jangly popster, you’re in need of some re-education. His latest album, ‘1D’, follows on from his 2013 collaboration with krautrock pioneer Roedelius and finds him walking a fine line all the way to the future
Death In Vegas On ‘MTV Fashionably Loud’
It’s 1997 and guess who’s been invited to play on MTV’s leading catwalk-cum-rock concert crossover show? Only psychedelic big beat electro-grunge pioneers, Death In Vegas…
Nicolas Godin
Ex-Air man Nicolas Godin talks us through the often refined inspirations for ‘Contrepoint’, his new solo album
OMD ‘Enola Gay’
Looking back through the mists of time to 1980, Andy Mccluskey talks us through the making of OMD’s smash hit single. Synths out of a catalogue, a scandal with ‘Swap Shop’, Airfix models – it’s a tale that’s got it all
‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’
The late 1990s and early 2000s threw up a slew of Air-style ambient masterpieces – but Fragile State’s 2004 classic ‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’ was criminally overlooked. It may just well be the UK’s ‘Premiers Symptômes’ of the era
Taking The Trans Europe Express
From Paris to Vienna to Düsseldorf, our very own man on the train follows the route laid out on ‘Trans-Europe Express’ for a unique Tour De Kraftwerk
Wolfgang Flür: Beyond The Robot
Former Kraftwerk man Wolfgang Flür recalls a little of his life as a robot and looks forward to an altogether more human future with his ‘Eloquence – Complete Works’ album and his dramatic ‘Musik Soldat’ live show
Ralf Dörper: Why Does It Hurt When My Heart Misses The Beat?
Propaganda founder Ralf Dörper tells the inside story of one of the finest electropop outfits of the 1980s – from ‘Dr Mabuse’, ‘Duel’ and their almost faultless ‘A Secret Wish’ album, to the band’s lengthy legal tussle with Trevor Horn’s infamous ZTT imprint
1975: Kernkraftwerk The Nuclear Powerplant
Forty years since the release of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radio-Activity’, we take a close look the dark horse of the five-album masterwork the band produced between 1974 and 1981