Features – Page 19 – Electronic Sound

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Jeff Mills: To Boldly Go…

byKris Needs

Detroit techno don, pioneering DJ and ardent futurist, Jeff Mills is electronic royalty. His latest mission, themed around black holes, is a breathtaking “cosmic opera” that’s quite possibly his most ambitious work to date

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The Visual Art of John Foxx

byMat Smith

John Foxx is well-known as the founder and frontman of Ultravox and as a revered solo musician in his own right. But he’s also a distinctive visual artist who has worked extensively in photography, graphic art, collage and other media over the years. He explains how it all started...

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John Grant: Lie Detector

bySian Pattenden

Typically direct and wickedly witty, almost nothing is off limits when speaking to John Grant. This time, he’s discussing his opulent new album ‘The Art Of The Lie’, the evils of sugar – “its history is soaked in blood” – and the joy of “really good” sex

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Keeley Forsyth: The Forsyth Saga

byBob Fischer

Keeley Forsyth’s latest offering is ‘The Hollow’, a bleakly beautiful and affecting symphony of operatic vocals and windswept soundscapes. Its inspirations? Scott Walker, a remarkable grandmother and an abandoned moorland mineshaft somewhere near Harrogate

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Wolfgang Tillmans: In The Frame

byClaire Francis

Not only is Wolfgang Tillmans an award-winning photographer, he’s a pretty nifty electronic artist too, as his expansive second album ‘Build From Here’ – all pulsing synths, lush instrumentals, wistful ballads and clubby peaks – so ably attests

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Low End Activist: Rave New World

byBen Willmott

Fancy a spot of “mutant grime” and “deprivation chamber dub”? You do? Then Oxford producer Low End Activist is most definitely your man

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Suzanne Ciani

byWill Stokes

Suzanne Ciani describes the making of her groundbreaking effects track ‘Xenon’ for the first-ever talking pinball machine. High score!

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Orbital, Glastonbury 1994

byPaul Clarke

Paul Hartnoll remembers Orbital’s era-defining Glastonbury headline performance of 1994, which thrust electronic dance music into the spotlight like never before

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The Eysturoy Tunnel, Faroe Islands

byJeremy Allen

We catch up with Jens L Thomsen, a Faroese artist who has produced an original composition for the island’s breathtaking Eysturoy Tunnel

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Eddy Grant ‘Electric Avenue’

byIan Berriman

Eddy Grant tells us why he has British Airways to thank for his 1983 mega-hit single ‘Electric Avenue’ – sort of