Features – Page 19 – Electronic Sound

20 minute read

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke: Tales of the Unexpected

byBen Murphy

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

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

byPaul Clarke

"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..."

LLandmarks

5 minute read

Dubstar ‘Stars’

byIan Berriman

Dubstar’s Steve Hillier explains how a breaks album, dub reggae and a nightclub closure fed into their 1995 hit ‘Stars’

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Dreamfish

byRobert Harris

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

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Gary Daly

byBob Fischer

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

LLong Reads

20 minute read

Barry Gray: Stand By for Action!

byMat Smith

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s pioneering TV worlds were driven by Supermarionation and sci-fi spectacle, but it was Barry Gray’s trailblazing soundtracks that gave them soul...

LLong Reads

3 minute read

Barry Gray: Scoring Position

byMat Smith

With their promise of exhilarating retro-futuristic adventures, Barry Gray’s defining soundtracks for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson fizz with bombastic brass, sweeping strings and daring electronic innovation

LLandmarks

4 minute read

Swamp Children ‘You’ve Got Me Beat’

byJeremy Allen

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

TTime Machine

4 minute read

The 1990s Finnish Electro Scene

byBen Willmott

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

UUnder The Influence

5 minute read

Hannah Peel

byJeremy Allen

From the glorious scenery of Donegal to presenting BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Tracks’, Hannah Peel reveals the primary influences that have shaped her