Features – Page 12 – Electronic Sound

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The Space Lady: Down To Earth

byCheri Amour

Cosmic icon and Casio busker The Space Lady reflects on her 50-year journey – from San Francisco street performer to her debut club tour aged 66 – and why she believes she’s finally ready to plant her feet back on terra firma

LLong Reads

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The Utopia Strong: United We Stand

byBob Fischer

What do you get if you combine Gong’s flamboyant guitarist, an internationally renowned bagpipe builder and a six-time world snooker champion? The joyous friendships behind The Utopia Strong, whose third studio album, ‘Doperider’, is an occult-flavoured delight

LLong Reads

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Wevie Stonder: Stuck On Stupid

byBen Murphy

After a 16-year hiatus, glorious oddballs Wevie Stonder are back. Deploying a familiar melange of multi-hued electronics, eccentric humour, cartoonish sound effects and patently skewed storytelling, they’re still delightfully bonkers

LLong Reads

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Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Catch Our Drift

byMark Roland

Brian Eno joins forces with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe for a breathtaking trilogy of albums that float tantalisingly through opulent, ambient atmospherics and hushed Americana...Get ready for total immersion

LLong Reads

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Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: 10 Selected Works

byMark Roland

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are far more than simple musicians. From ingenious and engaging sound art to thought-provoking exhibitions and installations, here is a potted guide to some of their works beyond music

BBuried Treasure

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Robert Logan ‘Cognessence’ (Slowfoot, 2007)

byPaul Clarke

"Music journalism is not an exact science. Just ask the total wazzock who dismissed one of Hot Chip’s first singles..."

LLandmarks

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The Sabres Of Paradise ‘Smokebelch II’

byRob Harris

Jagz Kooner, who together with Andrew Weatherall and Gary Burns made up The Sabres Of Paradise, tells the story of the inimitable ‘Smokebelch II’

TTime Machine

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Love Parade Music Festival

byJonathan Wright

In 1989, Danielle De Picciotto dreamed of witnessing Carnival in Brazil. Instead, she brought the carnival to a still-partitioned Berlin by co-creating the dance music festival, Love Parade

UUnder The Influence

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Adam Wiltzie

byBen Willmott

Adam Wiltzie, co-founder of Stars Of The Lid and A Winged Victory For The Sullen, shares the forces that have shaped his creative life, from football to John Peel

LLong Reads

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Andrzej Zuławski: On Another Planet

byAnton Spice

Polish director Andrzej Z˙uławski’s surrealist sci-fi epic ‘Na Srebrnym Globie’ – ‘On The Silver Globe’ – was shut down by the Communist regime and partially destroyed, then finished in secret and never formally released...