Features – Page 21 – Electronic Sound

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Walt Disco: The Rebel Alliance

byBob Fischer

It’s already been a hell of a year for Glaswegian art rockers Walt Disco. The band have enjoyed a rapturous reception as tour support with OMD and released a new album, ‘The Warping’, combining the anthemic with the deeply personal

LLong Reads

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Richard Sen: Richard The First

byBen Gilbert

The debut solo album from revered DJ and producer Richard Sen is a collection of questing cosmic house and disco that explores his ancestral roots and cements his reputation as a creative polymath. Strap in for one heck of a backstory…

FFeatures

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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

FFeatures

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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

FFeatures

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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

LLandmarks

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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!

TTime Machine

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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

UUnder The Influence

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Tom Ravenscroft

byMat Smith

Outsider art, rave tapes and dancing like a lunatic have all shaped BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Tom Ravenscroft – aside from being the son of John Peel, of course

BBuried Treasure

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David Behrman ‘On The Other Ocean’ (Lovely Music, 1978)

byJoe Silva

"For more than 23 minutes, the side-long title piece emerges like fog that’s crept in so slowly overnight"

FFeatures

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Chanel Beads: The Bead Generation

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Touting a mutated brand of electrified yet introspective post-punk, the debut album by New York’s Chanel Beads includes David Sylvian and The Blue Nile among its many influences. Yep, it’s that good