Features

Everyone likes Blancmange and their no-nonsense synthpop shizz, right? But forget what you think you know. With the release of an excellent new album, ‘Semi Detached’, Neil Arthur reveals why it really is time for a rethink

Adamski is back. And he’s back with something very different and really quite special. ‘Revolt’, his first album for 15 years, casts aside four-to-floor and serves up a whole new way of thinking about dance music. Say hello to future waltz… 

The underground Tape Scene of early 1980s Germany produced countless DIY artists whose exciting and experimental work sounds as fresh today as it did then. And at its heart was electronic pioneer Felix Kubin, curator of the tape-tastic ‘Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik’ compilation 

Stefan Schneider and Sven Kacirek have crafted a unique electronic album based on a series of field recordings taken in some of the most remote parts of Kenya. Get set for the opulent synth tones and African-influenced rhythms of Schneider Kacirek’s ’Shadows Documents’  

He was forced to the join the Hitler Youth and jailed by the East German secret police. He became a musician after hanging out with Hendrix and Beefheart at a nudist camp in Corsica. As a member of Kluster, Cluster and Harmonia, as well as a hugely respected solo artist, he was a pioneer of the krautrock revolution. Meet Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a man whose life has been no less than extraordinary