Features – Page 2 – Electronic Sound

27 minute read

Clock DVA: Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick… Boom!

byNeil Mason

They’re often mentioned alongside Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League, but their story isn’t as well known as those of their Sheffield contemporaries...welcome to the weird and wild world of Clock DVA

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Alan Vega: The Final Flourish

byKris Needs

While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread

LLandmarks

5 minute read

Tortoise ‘Djed’

byBen Gilbert

With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Mike Paradinas

byBen Willmott

In the wake of his recent release, ‘Manzana’, Planet Mu label founder and IDM veteran Mike Paradinas – aka µ-Ziq – reflects on the influences that shape how he makes music

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’

byBob Fischer

In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Various Artists ‘Blueprints For Modern (Techno)Logy Vol 1’ (Plus 8, 1991)

byCarl Griffin

"Our first mistake was wandering unprepared into that hip Atlanta boutique where they sold all that rave clobber, and asking for a recommendation on a hot local DJ."

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Crimewave: Long Arm Of The Loud

byFat Roland

Fresh from Manchester’s electronic underground, Crimewave twists warped loops, trip hop vibes and shoegazey fuzz into a blistering maelstrom of energy – with not a synth in sight

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Charles Hayward and MC Dälek: Hot-Wired

byJeremy Allen

Legendary This Heat drummer Charles Hayward and avant-rap firebrand MC Dälek unite for a boundary-blurring, cross-generational exchange that maps thrilling new territory

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Oneohtrix Point Never: Pure And Sample

byDerek Walmsley

Constructed from 1990s sample CDs, the new album from Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never is a vapour trail of media decay, ambient unease and salvaged sonic echoes

LLong Reads

4 minute read

PVA: Do The Mash

byPaul Weedon

Embracing the creative potential of imperfection, enigmatic London trio PVA craft a dazzling “battleground of ideas and sounds”