Richard Fearless: Facing Up
On Death In Vegas’ first album in nine years, Richard Fearless channels grief, memory and raw emotion into visceral electronics – all caustic rave energy and fractured beauty.
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke: Tales of the Unexpected
What happens when electronic visionary Mark Pritchard teams up with Radiohead’s enigmatic frontman Thom Yorke? That will be ‘Tall Tales’, a gloriously hyperreal, “elegantly unhinged” album of sonic trickery and digital effects, with mind-zapping visuals by artist Jonathan Zawada
Gary Daly
It’s 45 years since Scouse schoolmates Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon formed China Crisis, and a new album collects their earliest BBC radio recordings. The road to chart success, reveals Gary, was littered with notepads and Uni-ball pens
Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)
"Despite never having quite the same cachet as your Warps or Ninja Tunes, the Sirkus label was a reliable stamp of quality at the turn of the 21st century..."
Dubstar ‘Stars’
Dubstar’s Steve Hillier explains how a breaks album, dub reggae and a nightclub closure fed into their 1995 hit ‘Stars’
Dreamfish
Mixmaster Morris and Pete Namlook’s Dreamfish project and much-loved 1993 album of the same name were born of a rare mix of unhinged acid parties and monk-like studio discipline
Swamp Children ‘You’ve Got Me Beat’
Swamp Children were a ragtag bunch of electro-jazz punksters from Manchester, featuring a fresh-faced Martin Moscrop and Ann Quigley. The two talk about the making of ‘You’ve Got Me Beat’, their groove-laden 1982 cut
The 1990s Finnish Electro Scene
A deep dive into the thrilling backstory to the 1990s Finnish Electro Scene, with key figures speaking about what made those years – and that music – so special
Hannah Peel
From the glorious scenery of Donegal to presenting BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Tracks’, Hannah Peel reveals the primary influences that have shaped her
Philippe Doray / Asociaux Associés ‘Nouveaux Modes Industriels’ (Invisible / Scopa, 1980)
“This album is an intergalactic ambush!”