Features – Page 2 – Electronic Sound

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The Cleaners From Venus ‘Corridor Of Dreams’

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Professional Englishman Martin Newell recounts the story of 1982’s ‘Corridor Of Dreams’, a classic track by The Cleaners From Venus born out of industry disillusionment, fraught relationships and a love for the “damp, misty lands” of Essex

TTime Machine

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Optimo Espacio

byDavid Pollock

In the weeks before his recent untimely death, Keith McIvor, aka JD Twitch, revisited the birth of Optimo Espacio, the celebrated Glasgow club night he helmed with Jonnie Wilkes, from 1997 to 2010 and beyond

UUnder The Influence

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Graham Massey

byDavid Pollock

As 808 State’s Graham Massey prepares to tour 1991’s acid house/rave classic ‘Ex:el’, he revisits his various influences, from Hawkwind to jazz

BBuried Treasure

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Paddy Kingsland ‘Fourth Dimension’ (BBC, 1973)

byJoe Silva

“I was on the phone with [redacted] from Sonic Youth… ”

LLong Reads

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William Basinski: Loop Guru

byFat Roland

William Basinski’s ‘The Disintegration Loops’ has attained legendary status. As an expansive new reissue drops, this dark ambient masterpiece drifts back into focus, shimmering with haunted reverie

LLong Reads

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Chicks On Speed: Fast And Furious

bySian Pattenden

Anarchic art-poppers Chicks On Speed are back with a career-spanning boxset and typically provocative new material. Co-founder Alex Murray-Leslie discusses witches, creative rebirths and trying to “break music”

LLong Reads

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Jonny Slut : That Nagging Feeling

byKris Needs

With a killer electroclash compilation just released, Nag Nag Nag founder and DJ Jonny Slut lifts the lid on wild club nights, his Human League fixation and the time Cilla Black got down to some seriously filthy tunes

LLong Reads

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Tristram Cary: A Century In Sound

byBob Fischer

This year marks the centenary of Tristram Cary’s birth. Regarded as the father of British electronic music, it’s……

LLong Reads

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Cold War Electronica: A For Armageddon

byBob Fischer

By the mid-1980s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was dominating British culture. Actor Reece Dinsdale and film editor John Cary look back at their contributions to two keystones of the Cold War aesthetic – ‘Threads’ and ‘When The Wind Blows’

LLong Reads

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Cold War Electronica: Cold Warrior

byMark Roland

Factory Records insider and founding member of Die Unbekannten, Mark Reeder arrived in West Berlin in 1978. His Cold War life in the divided city, smuggling music into the East like a dangerous subversive, reads like a post-punk spy yarn